mdekato - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Meanwhile... (Score 2, Interesting) 460

by mdekato on Friday August 08 2008, @09:52AM (#24525211) Attached to: Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year

Here's how companies are "trimming the shrubbery" now that the IT gardeners are gone. My wife works at a large national DIY store as a receiving clerk. They pulled ALL IT support out of the stores and Distribution Centers and put the IT duties on the people like my wife. If they can't figure out the problem, they can call a national helpdesk who will walk them through the fix (this will not work with my wife). If there is a hardware problem I think they have to wait for a shipment from the corporate hq.

IE 7.0/8.0b Code Execution 0-Day Released 131

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 16 2008, @08:45AM
from the cross-zone-scripting dept.

SecureThroughObscure writes "Security blogger and researcher Nate McFeters blogged about a 0-day exploit affecting IE7 and IE8 beta on XP that was released by noted security researcher Aviv Raff. The flaw is a 'cross-zone scripting' flaw that takes advantage of the fact that printing HTML web pages occurs in the Local Machine Zone in IE rather than in the Internet Zone. Quoting McFeters's post: 'This is currently unpatched and in all of its 0-day glory, so for the time being, beware printing using the "print table of links" option when printing web pages.' McFeters and others will be presenting at Black Hat on the link between cross-site scripting and cross-zone. Rob Carter has been hitting this hard over at his blog, pointing out cross-zone weaknesses in Azureus, uTorrent, and the Eclipse platform."

Soldier of the Future Goes to War 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2007, @08:34AM

An anonymous reader writes "Land Warrior, the Army's wearable electronics package, was panned earlier this year by the troops who were testing it out. They were forced to take the collection of digital maps and next-gen radios to war, anyway. And now, Wired's Noah Shachtman reports from Iraq, those same soldiers are starting to warm up to their soldier suits of the future."

Vista retreats as XP sales hold up 0

Submitted by

Kurtz'sKompund

on Monday July 23 2007, @03:58AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Microsoft expects Windows XP to make up a significantly larger part of sales than it had previously expected, at Vista's expense. http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?news id=9571"

Microsoft Accidently Puts Up Ubuntu for Sale-> 1

Submitted by

lnx

on Monday July 23 2007, @03:48AM

lnx writes "In the ironies or all ironies, Microsoft accidentally puts Ubuntu for sales on its marketplace. MadPenguin.org is here with an update. "I must admit that as an Ubuntu user, I had to smile when I saw Microsoft with this kind of egg on their face. Now the Microsofties will be quick to point out that this is not a big deal and it is merely a marketplace for software. But when that software is a competing OS, you had better believe that the level of incompetence that allows this to happen is reflective to what has happened to the Redmond giant as a whole. I personally believe that Microsoft has simply grown "too big for their britches." In other words, they are too large to be successfully managed and this sort of slip up is an obvious evidence of it."
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