Researchers Outline Security Risks of Social Networking Sites
Security researchers at Black Hat laid bare some of the security risks users of social networking sites such as MySpace face as Sophos releases new information about an attack targeting Facebook. - LAS VEGAS Sometimes our friends
arent really our friends. Just ask security researchers Nathan Hamiel and
Shawn Moyer.
Hamiel, senior consultant for Idea Information Security, and Moyer, Agura
Digital Securitys chief information security officer, teamed up before an
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How eWEEK Got Hacked at Black Hat
A group of reporters from Global Security Mag were kicked out of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas after stealing password information from another reporter who will remain nameless we'll call him me. - LAS VEGAS As some of you may have already
read by now, one of our brilliant cyber-minds at eWEEK who will remain nameless
(Brian Prince � oh wait � damn!) entered one of his passwords in the clear and
had it intercepted at this years Black Hat conference.
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Xirrus Wi-Fi Software Lands on Linux Desktops
Xirrus has developed a version of its Wi-Fi Monitor applet for Linux desktops. The applet, or desklet, as Xirrus prefers to call it, lets users monitor, secure and troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks. - Xirrus, a vendor of Linux-based Wi-Fi arrays, is releasing a version of its Wi-Fi
Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open-source, widgetlike Xirrus Wi-Fi
Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure and troubleshoot Wi-Fi
networks, according to company officials.
Wi-Fi Monitor has b...
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NBC Broadcasts Olympics via Cisco Video Backbone
The network is using Cisco Systems' IP video network infrastructure and video encoding software to distribute its Olympic coverage from China through the same virtual pipe to televisions, PCs and smart phones around the world. - NBC may have all the cameras, cables, on-air talent and back-scene technicians over in Beijing for the 29th Summer Olympiad, but Cisco Systems and Omneon are the IT companies serving up all that sports video to the outside world.
By the time the Games end on Aug. 24, somewhere between 2,900 and ...
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Motorola Entices Developers with Tools for Linux Phones
Motorola has started a public preview of development tools for unreleased Linux mobile phones. The free Eclipse-based tools will help Linux developers create, test and certify native applications for the newest Motorola handsets. - Motorola has released a quot;public preview quot; of the first-ever native
development tools for unreleased models of its Linux-based
mobile phones.
MotoDev Studio for Linux 0.3 is a freely downloadable, Eclipse-based tool suite
aimed at helping third-party and community Linux developers create...
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Low-Cost Notebooks Propel Intel, Via in Q2
The low-cost notebook or netbook market helped increase Intel's and Via's share of the worldwide x86 microprocessor market in the second quarter of 2008, says a study by Mercury Research. The demand for low-cost laptops also increased as HP, Lenovo, Acer and Asus brought new netbooks to the market. At the same time Intel and Via saw their share of the chip market increase, AMD's processor share slipped. - The low-cost notebook market helped Intel and Via Technologies increase
their share of the worldwide x86 microprocessor market in the second quarter of
2008, while Advanced Micro Devices' share slipped, according to an Aug. 7 report
from Mercury
Research.
While mainstream notebooks have been dr...
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Motorola Calls White Spaces Field Trials a Success
Motorola's combination of geolocation and sensing technologies performed well in FCC testing, Motorola officials say. Devices by Philips, Adaptrum and InfoComm are also being tested as Google, Microsoft, Motorola and other IT companies hope to exploit the digital television transition by delivering wireless broadband in the empty spectrum between digital television channels. - Motorola said Aug. 7 its geolocation device operated successfully in the Federal
Communications Commission's ongoing white spaces field trials. White spaces are
the unused interference buffer spaces between digital television channels that
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'Second Life' Rival Vivaty Opens 3-D Virtual World Platform
Vivaty offers a twist on 3-D virtual world application development. The would-be Second Life killer hopes developers will participate in Vivaty Create, a program to get geeks writing 3-D virtual reality applications in Vivaty that could be used on Facebook. The big question: Will Vivaty follow IBM's trail and inject 3-D virtual worlds into enterprise apps? - Virtual world software startup Vivaty, one of a handful of companies
following the path Linden
Lab's quot;Second Life quot; has blazed since 2003, has opened up its
platform to allow third-party programmers to come in and create avatars and
three-dimensional worlds.
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Dell 'Cloud Computing' Trademark on Hold
In the race to build out the cloud infrastructure and utility computing, Dell attempted to trademark the term cloud computing. But now Dell's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is on hold pending a review. When it comes to the cloud and utility computing, Dell, IBM, HP, Yahoo, Google and Amazon.com are all competing for dominance. - Dell, which had been attempting to trademark the term quot;cloud computing quot; for the company's own use, will now have to wait several weeks or months to claim the name as its own, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided to review the application.
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Patience Pays Off for Hackers in Web Security War
The hacker group behind the Coreflood Trojan has learned that patience pays, as they have had stolen at least 463,582 usernames and passwords while flying under the radar. At Black Hat, SecureWorks Director of Malware Research Joe Stewart discussed his research on the gang and how they have gone undetected. - The creators of the Coreflood Trojan have managed to stick their digital hands into the pockets of victims for years. And they have done it largely under the radar, according to research revealed at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Some may remember the Coreflood Trojan from the well-publici...
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