News
10 May 2008
Google explains its IPv6 strategy
At a meeting of European IP Registry RIPE, Google developer Lorenzo Colitti provided some off-the-record information about Google's launch of IPv6 and the next steps he thinks will be important for the new Internet protocol. more…
10 May 2008
Facebook improves security for children
49 US attorneys general have reached an agreement with the online social network to better protect minors. more…
10 May 2008
GPL violation by Skype re-affirmed by court
Skype has withdrawn its appeal against a July 2007 ruling that it violated the GPL, after the appeals court that was slated to hear the case advised the company that its chances were slim. more…
10 May 2008
Nokia Siemens Networks presents HSPA+ and LTE in Vienna
In Vienna on Thursday network supplier Nokia Siemens Networks demonstrated fast data transmission via HSPA+ and presented the UMTS successor LTE (Long Term Evolution). more…
9 May 2008
Big Brother 4.0 brings a flash interface to network management
Quest Software release Big Brother version 4.0. The applications, host and network monitoring tool uses a simple formula - Green is good, Red is bad - to indicate status. more…
9 May 2008
Prof. Amir Pnueli to speak on 'Abstraction Methods for Liveness' at De Montfort University
Leading computer expert Professor Amir Pnueli of New York University will present the 2008 Annual Distinguished Seminar, a free public talk at De Montfort University (DMU) Leicester next week. more…
9 May 2008
Helper program for setting kill bits
AxBan, a free tool from David Maynor, can set kill bits for specific ActiveX controls containing known security vulnerabilities. more…
9 May 2008
IPv4 addresses as "hot goods"?
A topic for debate at the meeting in Berlin of the IP address registry, Réseaux IP Européens, was how to handle anticipated trading in the dwindling number of IPv4 address blocks. more…
9 May 2008
Panasonic Avionics to reintroduce broadband on aeroplanes
Panasonic Avionics will use the Intelsat GlobalConnexSM broadband service for future in-flight internet services. more…
9 May 2008
Upcoming Microsoft patch day: three critical updates planned
Four updates, three of which are critical, will close holes in Office, the Jet Engine and Microsoft's anti-malware tools. more…
8 May 2008
FBI backs off in dispute with Internet Archive
The FBI has retracted a demand for the release of user data after the Internet Archive took the matter to court. more…
8 May 2008
NASA collaborates with Intel and SGI on forthcoming petaflops super computers
The three partners in the "Pleiades" project intend to construct a one-petaflop machine by 2009, continuing to 10 petaflops by 2012. more…
8 May 2008
Borland sells CodeGear
Software provider Borland is selling its subsidiary CodeGear, a firm behind a number of popular developer tools, to Embarcadero, a vendor of database tools. more…
8 May 2008
Windows Home Server patched – but only for one bug
Windows Home Server does not back up compressed files correctly - restoring them results in corrupted data. Users should apply the patch provided as soon as possible. more…
8 May 2008
Vulnerabilities in rdesktop allow injected code
Security vulnerabilities let attackers slip malicious code into the rdesktop client for unix-like operating systems, part of the rdesktop project. more…
8 May 2008
Spammers abuse Yahoo's Authenticated Mail
Spammers are trying to get more unsolicited emails past filters with digital signatures. One of the things they are using is Yahoo's DomainKeys Identified Mail. more…
8 May 2008
Firefox add-on contains malware
Malware has turned up in a Vietnamese language pack add-on for Firefox. It appears that the infected add-on was available on the Mozilla project's servers for nearly three months. more…
7 May 2008
Please touch: access token transmits signals via human skin
Human Area Networking reportedly has one major advantage over wireless ID verification systems such as RFID: the signals are hard to tap. more…
7 May 2008
Free Mac OS X virtualiser released
Germany's Innotek has released the final version of its VirtualBox for Apple's operating system. more…
7 May 2008
Denial of service hole in WonderWare SCADA systems
Attackers can exploit a hole in one of the components of the widely used WonderWare range of SCADA systems to deny service. more…
7 May 2008
OpenOffice 3.0 in beta test
Version 3.0 of the free office suite, scheduled for release next September, is now available in beta for Windows and Linux. A Mac OS X, version is also available, but only for Intel based Apple machines. more…
7 May 2008
Opera Dragonfly hunts for web bugs
Opera Software has introduced a new web development tool for its browser. more…
7 May 2008
Whalers target CEOs with bogus subpoenas
A new targeted fishing attack focuses on CEOs of large corporations by name, using a bogus court subpoena to persuade victims to download a trojan. more…
7 May 2008
India set to counter Chinese net attacks
The Indian media report that the country's networks are under constant attack from China. Whilst official Chinese government sources have rejected the allegations, the Indians are now planning to fight back. more…
7 May 2008
Yahoo displays warnings about malware links
Google has been able to do it for ages. Now Yahoo has started marking hits of websites that might infect visitors with malicious code. more…
