Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection
A recently released NSS Labs study, claims that Internet Explorer 8 greatly outperforms competing browsers in terms of protecting users against web based malware. According to the study based upon a sample of 492 URLs, not only is IE8's SmartScreen Filter achieving a leading position against the rest of the... Read on »
Linux under attack: compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to gain root access.... Read on »
IE8 Performance
Google has commented on our IE8 Beta 1 improvements, and we’ve made IE8 even faster since then. Some of the tests we have done show pure JScript performance improvements up to 2.5 times. We also measured the performance gains on common Gmail operations, like loading the inbox (34%), opening a... Read on »
The 3rd feature pack for Vista is arriving...
Microsoft will release a new Windows Feature Pack for Storage which contains 3 technologies: Active Storage Platform: enables the Windows platform to... Read on »
OpenID is an untrusted protocol, says Sun
OpenID is an untrusted protocol. Sun has no liability for what happens to any information you give to a third-party web site... Read on »
Microsoft's 'Mama' Dies at Age 72
Microsoft has lost one of its early employees one month after the original 11 members reunited to celebrate Bill Gates' retirement from his day-to-day role with the company he co-founded. Miriam Lubow (1935-2008 ) is known as Microsoft's 'Mama', a title she received shortly after starting to work as an... Read on »
Windows Update posts 100% uptime, beats Apple, Ubuntu
Royal Pingdom has posted the results of a short study that looked at the availability of the software update services for three popular operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu.Pingdom's uptime monitoring service performed a test once every five minutes and if downtime was found, it was confirmed from... Read on »
Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0
Just 5 hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla’s flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts all Firefox 3.0 users at risk of PC takeover attacks. According to a note from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) , a company... Read on »
Don’t wait for Windows 7: realize the benefts of Vista now
Some customers are considering whether to deploy Windows Vista or whether to skip in anticipation of Windows 7.The discussion is often phrased as one of balancing costs and timing of releases. By not deploying Windows Vista, it means missing out on the proven benefts such as better security, productivity, search,... Read on »
Mac OS X 10.6 to drop PowerPC support?
While everyone focuses on the iPhone next update, a new rumor posits that Apple will already have a new version of Mac OS X available for testing in early form at WWDC, with its actual launch appearing as early as next year's Macworld event. Similar to Mac OS X 10.1,... Read on »
Vista users: "You Already Have MinWin"
We have learnt quite a lot about Windows 7 this week, and one of the things was that Windows 7 would not get a new kernel. The call for a new kernel has been made a few times on the internet, but anyone with a bit more insight into Windows'... Read on »
Debian and Ubuntu flaw leaves private SSL/SSH keys guessable
The Debian Security Advisory posted up DSA-1571-1 openssl -- predictable random number generator issue today and strongly advised its users to take steps to avoid possible compromising of any systems running on Debian, such as Ubuntu. The researcher Luciano Bello discovered a security flaw in Debian's random number generator that... Read on »
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release to Web (RTW) Delayed!
In the last few days, we have uncovered a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and SP3 both Windows XP and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). In order to make sure customers have the best possible experience, we have decided to delay releasing Windows XP Service... Read on »
Vista doesn't suck: OEM's crapware sucks!
In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight, he told me, his experience went from “awesome” to “awful.” The experience was so terrible, in fact, that after several months of struggling he... Read on »
Apple adds Vista security features to QuickTime
QuickTime for Windows Vista now supports ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization), a Windows Vista security technology that randomly arranges the positions of key data areas to prevent malware authors from predicting target addresses. In addition to ASLR, QuickTime for Windows will also do stack buffer safety checking (Visual Studio 2005's... Read on »
Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun Slowest
Symantec's comprehensive security report on the malware industry from July 1 to December 31, 2007, is now avaible in its 100+ page glory. Symantec broke down information on patch development time by operating system and by the type of vulnerability encountered. Surprisingly, Microsoft had the shortest time-to-patch over both halves... Read on »
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