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• Cheap Cracks - Of dictionaries and rainbows

  

  Modern cryptological attacks can crack mobile phone calls, as well as debit and credit cards, in seconds. The trick is to find a practical compromise between computing time and memory space with the help of precomputed tables

• The Open Source BIOS is Ten - An interview with the coreboot developers

  

  Most PCs use a proprietary code BIOS to load the operating system, but there are developers who have been writing open source replacements. This interview with the three developers behind coreboot, provides more insight into the process

• Government backs more remote searching of private PCs

  The government is backing proposals that could lead to more remote searching of private PCs

• Kernel Log: Higher and Further, The innovations of Linux 2.6.28

  

  The Ext4 file system, better memory and disk management, updated drivers and more in Linux 2.6.28

• The Win, Fail and Meh of Open Source in 2008

  

  We look at 2008, what was full of win, waiting for the failboat or just made us go meh

• OpenSuse 11.1: a new broom

  

  OpenSuse 11.1 breaks with the tradition that new minor versions include minor changes only. As well as separating free and proprietary software, there are also three revamped Yast modules and improvements to make it more user-friendly

• Microsoft closes zero day hole in Internet Explorer

  

  The patch is to close the hole in all versions of Internet Explorer and is available for all Windows versions. Users are advised to install the update immediately, as the number of infected web pages is growing steadily

• Fuzzy ways of finding flaws

  

  Fuzzing, aka fuzz testing, has revolutionized the automated search for programming flaws. Nowadays, you simply use corrupt data to cause programs to crash and detect flaws even without access to the source code.

• Signing emails with DomainKeys Identified Mail

  

  Originally, DomainKeys - and its successor, DKIM - was only designed to fight spam. Since it detects forged sender addresses it also works well against phishing. heise online looks at implementing DKIM for yourself