What does HP's plan to buy IT services firm EDS for $1.9 billion mean? And why is it happening now? Ben Pring, research vice president at Gartner Inc. talks about the just-announced deal.
EarthLink, which is pulling out of the municipal Wi-Fi market, said it plans to shut down its network in Philadelphia next month after talks on a proposed ownership transfer fell apart.
Apple is adding several shows from HBO to its iTunes lineup and will charge more than its standard fee for some of them, a move that could spell the end of the store's flat-fee pricing structure.
The article describes how botnets (also known as zombie networks), which have evolved into one of the most serious information security threats, are created and operated
LinuxSecurity.com: Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.
LinuxSecurity.com: Daniel P. Berrange discovered that the hypervisor's para-virtualized framebuffer (PVFB) backend failed to validate the format of messages serving to update the contents of the framebuffer. This could allow a malicious user to cause a denial of service, or
LinuxSecurity.com: Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.
LinuxSecurity.com: A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker
Linux Game Publishing has announced a Linux port of "Sacred Gold," an action role-playing game first published for Windows three years ago. The U.K.-based game publisher plans to ship the title in August of this year, priced at 27 GBP
In a tutorial for beginners, and with plenty of real world examples, I look at some practical photo-taking tips for your multi-megapixel smartphone when conditions are less than perfect... and I explain that adjusting the photo later in software is
laurent gaffié has discovered a vulnerability in Novell Client, which can be exploited by malicious people with physical access to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error
A security issue has been reported in Citrix Access Gateway, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The security issue is caused due to an unspecified error, which in certain configurations can be exploited to
Matteo Carli has reported some vulnerabilities in cPanel, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. 1) Input passed to the "issue" parameter in scripts2/knowlegebase, "user" in scripts2/changeip, and "search" in scripts2/listaccts
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) An error when parsing objects in rich text format (.rtf) files can be exploited to corrupt memory e.g. when
This Hardbox external hard drive from Sarotech does one thing best, and that is to blend in well with all the other hardcover books like Harry Potter-series on your bookshelves. And someone actually thinks poor-sighted burglars might mistaken the Sarotech
Opera today made Yandex the default search engine on Opera's mobile Web browsers for customers in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Effective immediately, anyone using Opera Mini in Russia and the CIS can access Russia's most popular
Pat Curran, the co-founder of Bell Security/Bell Group, has announced that he will step down from his role as Chairman of UK & Ireland operations within the parent business, Niscayah Group AB (formerly called Securitas Systems AB), on 30 June
