mdekato - Slashdot User

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

by mdekato on Friday August 08, 2008 @10:52AM (#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 @09:45AM 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."

Submission + - Soldier of the Future Goes to War

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @09:34AM

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.

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