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Comment Re:With what host? (Score 5, Informative) 154

by gb3 on Friday April 30, 2010 @10:37AM (#32044078) Attached to: VirtualBox Beta Supports OS X As Guest OS On Macs

That's not true. You can virtualize OS X Server starting with Leopard as long as it's on Apple hardware (host does not need to be OS X, in fact Parallels has a bare metal version for XServes). They've never let you virtualize OS X, just the last 2 versions of Server.

Legal Spying Via the Cell Phone System 139

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @12:36PM from the totally-legal-yup-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two researchers say they have found a way to exploit weaknesses in the mobile telecom system to legally spy on people by figuring out the private cell phone number of anyone they want, tracking their whereabouts, and listening to their voice mail."

Microsoft's Urgent Patch Precedes Black Hat Session 232

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @08:54AM from the no-time-like-the-present dept.

Julie188 writes "Mystery solved! Microsoft's latest emergency out-of-band patch was weird beyond belief. A notice was sent to journalists and researchers late Friday evening that the patch was coming Tuesday, but Microsoft refused to explain the flaw and even put a cone of silence around researchers who would have otherwise talked about it. But finally, one researcher broke ranks and explained that the patch was caused by a flaw introduced in Microsoft's own development tools. This flaw was also the source of the emergency ActiveX patch, which took about 18 months to complete and which supposedly fixed the problem by turning off ActiveX (setting a 'killbit' on the control). Researchers at Black Hat on Wednesday will be demonstrating how to override the killbit controls and get access to vulnerabilities supposedly stopped with a killbit. What's really scary is that Microsoft has issued 175 killbits fixes so far."

Comment Re:SPF! (Score 1) 119

by gb3 on Thursday January 11, 2007 @03:58PM (#17561720) Attached to: Proper Ways to Dispose of Spam?

Doesn't Gmail require users to verify they can receive E-mail on an account before they are able to send with that account? Or is there a way around that I'm not aware of?

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