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Microsoft has disabled the Remote Mailslot legacy protocol by default in Windows 11 build 25314. A senior Microsoft manager has called it "disgusting" and "crap", saying that it will be removed soon.

Usama Jawad · Mar 10, 2023 · Hot! with 26 comments

Microsoft has issued what appears to be the final public warning about Basic Authentication in Exchange Online being deprecated next month. Customers have been advised to switch to Modern Auth.

Usama Jawad · Dec 21, 2022 with 0 comments

Microsoft has introduced a nifty feature for Windows 11 and Windows Server Insiders with build 25158. It's called "DNS over TLS" and could enable improved network performance, here's how to enable it.

Usama Jawad · Jul 14, 2022 · Hot! with 3 comments

Two supposedly secure email services, Silent Email and Lavabit, closed within a matter of hours of each other, with concerns about government pressure over 'high-profile' users of the services.

Paul Ferson · Aug 9, 2013 · Hot! with 18 comments

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced today that Facebook will be launching their new Open Graph protocol and APIs, eliminating Facebook Connect, according to Mashable, via the F8 conference. Facebook Open Graph is set to lockdown on...

Andrew Lyle · Apr 21, 2010 · Hot! with 11 comments

OpenID is an untrusted protocol. Sun has no liability for what happens to any information you give to a third-party web site using this service. Most OpenID-enabled sites are genuine but some may be phishers...

· Aug 10, 2008 · Hot! with 10 comments

Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows...

· Dec 20, 2007 · Hot! with 12 comments

A vulnerability, which could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting attacks and gain knowledge of sensitive information, has been identified in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9,. This issue is caused by an input and origin validation...

· Nov 9, 2007 · Hot! with 4 comments

At the end of 2005 I made some predictions about the VoIP industry which I will review further in a day or two. While a couple of my predictions have already proved correct, perhaps the...

Steven Parker · Jul 14, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Thanks to ibetheone in BPN for the heads up. Three new branches have been created for Firefox, Thunderbird, and the original Mozilla suite, in order to fix an external windows protocol handler...

Michael Stanclift · Jul 8, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

A new kind of wireless network protocol that is based on IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) allows users to link to network no matter which platform. "What we've designed is a system that...

· May 27, 2004 with -1 comments

A playable demo for Alpha Black Zero: Intrepid Protocol is now available, offering a chance to try out the squad-based third-person sci-fi shooter by Dutch developer Khaeon. This humongous download features Parts 1 through 3...

Marcel Klum · May 3, 2004 with -1 comments

With the click of a BIC, speeding along the information superhighway may begin to feel like zooming down Germany's no-holds-barred Autobahn. BIC-TCP (binary increase congestion transmission control protocol) is a new data-transfer protocol that "makes...

· Apr 16, 2004 with -1 comments

U.S. antitrust authorities are prodding Microsoft Corp. to disclose more to rivals who license key Windows computer code under the company's landmark antitrust settlement, according to court papers filed on Wednesday. Microsoft has agreed to...

· Apr 15, 2004 with -1 comments

UWB, the future wireless standard that could see half-a-Gigabit wireless links replacing USB and Bluetooth, could at last break out of its standards purgatory. A new proposal by PulseLink suggests any number of...

· Apr 9, 2004 with -1 comments

There is a cross-domain scripting vulnerability in the way ITS protocol handlers determine the security domain of an HTML component stored in a Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file. The HTML Help system "...uses the underlying...

· Apr 9, 2004 with -1 comments

Sun CEO Scott McNealy will bring service provider partner Verizon on stage during his keynote at JavaOne on Friday to demonstrate how Juxtapose (JXTA) peer-to-peer technology better enables collaboration between corporate users, Sun executives said....

· Jun 11, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks wired57 for making a thread about this in our forum. The Remote Data Protocol (RDP) provides the means by which Windows systems can provide remote terminal sessions to clients. The protocol transmits information regarding...

· Sep 19, 2002 with -1 comments

A security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could allow a hacker to take control of a remote computer if its user clicks a link to an outdated Internet protocol, a computer security firm says....

· Jun 5, 2002 with -1 comments

For some time now there has been a great deal of talk -- and even some action -- about the next-generation version of TCP/IP, named IPv6. It's been a long time coming, and for good...

· Mar 27, 2002 with -1 comments