Comment Re:Slashdot (Score 1) 1397
Or as a former Comp Sci teacher would have said:
huh-tt-pah intestine virgule virgule...
Submission + - ATI Driver Flaw Exposes Vista Kernel to Attackers (zdnet.com) 1
Shack0ption writes: An unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple Pill proof-of-concept tool that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the Windows Vista kernel. The utility, released by Alex Ionescu and yanked an hour later after the kernel developer realized that the ATI driver flaw was not yet patched, provided an easy way to load unsigned drivers onto Vista — effectively defeating the new anti-rootkit/anti-DRM mechanism built into Microsoft's newest operating system. Ionescu confirmed his tool was exploiting a vulnerability in an ATI driver — atidsmxx.sys, version 3.0.502.0 — to patch the kernel to turn off certain checks for signed drivers. This meant that a malicious rootkit author could essentially piggyback on ATI's legitimately signed driver to tamper with the Vista kernel.
Submission + - Id Goes Full Steam Ahead
Dr. Eggman writes: Today, quite wisper and rumors became fact as two FPS giants, Id and Valve joined forces to bring Id games back catalog to Valve's Steam. This marks a huge influx of old classics as well as opening up the possibility of bringing some of the newest, most anticipated Id games to Steam. Expect to hear more from Valve's appearance at Quakecon soon.
Comment Re:A BLack hat attendee hacked? (Score 1) 260
Hah, no kidding. If I were at a black hat conference, I know I would be tunneling ALL my traffic somewhere safe first, in addition to using HTTPS.
Also, gmail only uses https if you tell it to. Last time I checked, it uses http by default.
And lastly, I don't think facebook has any info on there that I wouldn't want made public anyways, so it's probably not necessary for them.
Also, gmail only uses https if you tell it to. Last time I checked, it uses http by default.
And lastly, I don't think facebook has any info on there that I wouldn't want made public anyways, so it's probably not necessary for them.
Submission + - Brain electrodes help man speak again (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "He was beaten and left for dead one night in a robbery while walking home in 1999. His skull was crushed and his brain severely damaged. The doctor said if he pulled through at all, he'd be a vegetable for the rest of his life."
"Researchers chose him for an experimental attempt to rev up his brain by placing electrodes in it."
