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Microsoft sets record: patching 34 vulnerabilities-> 0

Submitted by destinyland on Tuesday August 10 2010, @01:00AM

destinyland writes "Microsoft releases a record number of patches Tuesday — a whopping 14 security bulletins to fix 34 different vulnerabilities, including eight critical vulnerabilities that allow the remote execution of code. ("Another month, another record," wrote one technology blog.) And Microsoft will also belatedly acknowledge Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy in four bulletins for his discovery of a vulnerability in Windows Help and Support Center. It was Ormandy who announced the pending acknowledgments on Twitter, adding Friday that "I don't think there's been more than a few days this year that Microsoft haven't been vulnerable to public kernel flaws." But another security analyst also notes there's no patches for Windows XP SP2, "even though the five critical vulnerabilities for XP SP3 most likely apply to their discontinued version of the OS as well.""
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Flash ported to iOS and iPhone 4-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 08 2010, @11:28AM

An anonymous reader writes "You may remeber in early July Flash was ported to iPad under the name of Frash. Well, now that same port has been updated to allow it to run on iPhone 4 and iOS. But that’s not all, the same port will run on iPhone 3GS, iPad, and iPod touch."
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Browser-Based Jailbreak For iPhone 4 Released 154

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 02 2010, @08:56AM
from the oh-yeah-totally-secure dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "Apple Insider is reporting on a browser-based 'jailbreak' for iPhone 4. Hackers on Sunday released the first 'jailbreak' for the iPhone 4, a browser-based exploit that allows users to run unauthorized code. Unlike previous jailbreaks, which required users to run software on their Mac or PC and tether their iPhone to their computer, the latest hack is done entirely within the Safari browser. Users simply visit the URL to begin the process, which modifies the iOS mobile operating system found on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Some users have reported that the modification results in broken MMS and FaceTime functionality. This jailbreak does not work on iPads running iOS 3.2.1. "

The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk 558

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 28 2010, @10:18AM
from the i-keep-mine-in-a-metal-toolbox dept.

osullish writes "People have been proclaiming the death of the floppy for years, yet millions are bought around the world. Who is buying them?"

ePub Textbooks for Teaching...-> 0

Submitted by nghtstr on Tuesday March 23 2010, @08:58PM

nghtstr writes "I was planning on home-schooling my son, and I began to think that maybe a good tool to use would be eBooks for textbooks. However, I have been unsuccessful in finding any textbooks out there in the popular ePub format. So, I am asking the Slashdot community, do you know of any sites that sell (or preferably give) e-textbooks away, especially in the ePub format? Many thanks in advance!!"
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SPAM: Dell Alienware 6-Core Rig Breaks 4.3GHz, Stock 0

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MojoKid

on Tuesday March 23 2010, @05:44PM

MojoKid writes "Dell recently afforded their Alienware division the inside track on Intel's benchmark crushing Core i7-980X Gulftown 6-core processor and the resources to get it validated for delivery to market quickly. HotHardware spent some quality time with the new Alienware Area-51, helping it break its first sweat, and overclocking it to a snappy 4.3GHz right out of the box. There's little argument that Intel's new Gulftown six-core CPU is the fastest chip on the desktop currently and at a solid 1GHz over its stock speed, this system tears up benchmarks pretty well. Dell ships the system at its rated 3.3GHz stock speed but there are simple toggle presets in the system BIOS that allow it to overclock up to 4GHz and higher."
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Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? 531

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 29 2010, @04:12PM
from the triple-word-score dept.

andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."

Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next 193

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 07 2009, @07:06PM
from the fattening-up-on-brains dept.

ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."

It's a Man's Man's Man's World 0

Submitted by theodp on Saturday December 05 2009, @05:46PM

theodp writes "James Brown sang it, but Newsweek offers proof that it is indeed a man's world. In investigating the question of whether men are smarter than women, British researcher Adrian Furnham came up with some startling results. His analysis of some 30 studies showed that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ, but women underestimate their own intelligence while men overestimate theirs. Surprisingly, both men and women perceived men being smarter across generations — both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and their grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers. And if there are children, both men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters."

Mac, BSD prone to decade old attacks 7

Submitted by BSDer on Wednesday February 06 2008, @07:43PM

BSDer writes "An Israeli security researcher published a paper few hours ago, detailing attacks against Mac, OpenBSD and other BSD-style operating systems. The attacks, says Amit Klein from Trusteer enable DNS cache poisoning, IP level traffic analysis, host detection, O/S fingerprinting and in some cases even TCP blind data injection. The irony is that OpenBSD boasted their protection mechanism against those exact attacks when a similar attack against the BIND DNS server was disclosed by the same researcher mid 2007. It seems now that OpenBSD may need to revisit their code and their statements. According to the researcher, another affected party, Apple, refused to commit to any fix timelines. It would be interesting to see their reaction now that this paper is public."