January 2009
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Judge's ruling that WoW bot violates DMCA is... →
Blizzard notched another victory in its legal campaign against World of Warcraft bots when a judge on Wednesday ruled that a leading bot violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. MDY Industries LLC, the firm that develops and sells the Glider bot, already suffered a major setback last summer when the judge granted Blizzard summary judgment on several key issues. This week’s decision...
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IE8's "Clickjacking Protection" Exposed →
Yesterday I published a blind analysis of the so called “Clickjacking protection” included in IE8 RC1. “Blind” because, hype aside, there was no technical documentation available, even if the feature was targeted to web developers who — in order to protect their users — should modify the way their pages are served. After a while, Microsoft’s David Ross sent me an email confirming that my wild...
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Gmail Goes Offline With Google Gears →
Until today, one of the biggest drawbacks of Gmail is that you could not go through your emails when you were offline. Today, that changes. Gmail is finally going offline. Google is rolling out a Google Gears version of Gmail that will be available to users starting today in Gmail Labs. (If you don’t see it, keep checking, the rollout to all users should be complete by the end of the week).
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Calls for open source government →
The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products. The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley’s most respected business leaders Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. He revealed he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject for the new administration. “It’s intuitively obvious open source is more cost...
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How to Suck at Information Security →
The following list presents common information security mistakes and misconceptions, so you can avoid making them.
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The taxman cometh? IRS urged to tax virtual... →
The Internal Revenue Service should start taxing the fledgling virtual economy in Second Life, World of Warcraft, and other virtual worlds according to Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson. In her annual report published on the IRS website, Olsen said that there are still a number of issues that the IRS should “proactively address” before they get out of control. And now that it’s on the...
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Browser bug could allow phishing without e-mail →
Bug found in all major browsers enables cybercriminals to steal online banking credentials using a new type of attack called ‘in-session phishing’.
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The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors →
As banking regulators emphasize the necessity of application security, a broad-based consortium now sheds new light on the most common vulnerabilities. Experts from more than 30 U.S. and international cyber security organizations, including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division, have just released a list of the 25 most...
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Deep inside the Windows 7 Public Beta: an in-depth... →
Last week’s CES saw the announcement of the much anticipated public beta of Windows 7, with 2.5 million license keys promised to beta testers on Friday. Friday arrived, and as is now well-known, Microsoft’s servers melted under the load. The key generation is now more or less working, and the 2.5 million limit has been scrapped, so it’s time to take a look at what’s on...
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Obama: we need EMRs; NAS report: be careful what... →
On the same day that we reported that an IT industry group was calling for stimulus money to go toward modernizing the electronic healthcare infrastructure, President-elect Obama delivered. In a speech in Washington, he called for providing electronic patient records throughout the country within the next five years. It’s a lofty goal, and one with the potential to have significant...
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Nine Inch Nails: The First Open-Source Band? →
Throughout his 20+ year career as the man behind industrial-rock act Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor has been no stranger to the ways of Creative Commons and digital distribution. In fact, he’s let fans tinker with his musical creations as far back as the 1999 release of his two-disc album, “The Fragile,” two years before the sharing and remixing licensing arrangements of the...
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Report: Gmail about one-third as expensive as... →
What does it cost to host an e-mail account? It seems like a simple question, but a remarkable number of enterprises surveyed by Forrester had no idea of how to answer that question. A new report by the research company has taken a look under the hood of both in-house and commercial e-mail services, and put some numbers on the per-user costs associated with a variety of options. The surprise...
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Free Nine Inch Nails albums top 2008 Amazon MP3... →
Creative Commons provides easy and effective ways to offer up your content without abandoning all rights to its use—free distribution might be allowed, for instance, but only as long as the author is attributed and the distribution is noncommercial. Sounds great for hippies and Web 2.0 types, but what big-name artist would actually commit this sort of career suicide? Nine Inch Nails, for one, and...
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Hundreds of Israeli Websites Hacked in 'Propaganda... →
It didn’t take long after Israel’s bombing of Gaza began for cyberwarfare to erupt as well: More than 300 Israeli Websites over the past few days have been hacked and defaced with anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. messages in an online propaganda campaign, a security expert says. Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, warned in his...