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Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day 473

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:05AM from the cheap-indentured-servitude dept.

CNet is reporting that the door has closed on the H1-B visa application process for this year, one day after it began. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services said that it had received 150,000 applications as of yesterday afternoon. 65,000 H1-B visas can be issued for foreigners with bachelor's degrees. The USCIS will choose randomly from the applications to determine the winners.

VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing 210

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:05AM from the breaking-into-your-own-hardware dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At the Black Hat Conference in Amsterdam, security experts from India demonstrated a special boot loader that gets around Vista's code-signing mechanisms. Indian security experts Nitin and Vipin Kumar of NV labs have developed a program called the VBootkit that launches from a CD and boots Vista, making on-the-fly changes in memory and in files being read. In a demonstration, the 'boot kit' managed to run with kernel privileges and issue system rights to a CMD shell when running on Vista, even without a Microsoft signature. The demo was run on Vista RC2. The researchers say the only reason they didn't do it on Vista final was cost. Schneier blogged the exploit."

Feed Parking Goes to Highest Bidder (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:12AM

See that spot that just opened up? Forget about it. Some yuppie won it in an auction two hours ago, so you're out of luck. Commentary by Tony Long.

Xbox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked 232

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @08:48PM from the they're-in dept.

ACTRAiSER writes "A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the Xbox 360 Security Protection Hypervisor. It includes sample code as well." From Bugtraq "We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access."

Casual Play on 360 Live Arcade 48

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @06:58PM from the uno-and-fish-and-geometry-oh-my dept.

twoallbeefpatties writes "Columnist Chris Suellentrop writes an article for Slate describing how his desire for casual gaming is fulfilled more by the 360 than the Wii due to the presence of simpler games available over Live Arcade. The availability of oldschool Nintendo games on the Wii network fulfills his nostalgic hardcore gaming side, but when he really wants to just relax, he'd rather be trying to top his Live high score on Root Beer Tapper. Says Suellentrop: 'The Nintendo Wii will transform the way we play games at home. But the Xbox 360, through its Xbox Live service, is building something equally compelling: a celestial arcade, where casual and hard-core gamers alike can connect over the Internet and find like-minded souls. For an old-timer like me, the celestial arcade also lets me feel like I still have some of my old gaming mojo.'"

Comment Irish Insurance Company (Score 1) 727

by rivalgangs on Wednesday August 23, 2006 @06:28AM (#15961180) Attached to: Teen Creates Device to Track Speeding

An Irish insurance company had already implemented this technology, using a gps tracker in your car it would track your speed and if you went over the speed limit more than 3 times in any month it would firstly give you warnings then cancel your insurance. It would reduce your insurance but they seem to have stopped using the technology as young male drivers (who were the only ones ment to use this service) didnt sign up in their thousands. I wonder why...

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