Date: 02/12/08     Keywords: no keywords

Android is building momentum at the Mobile World Congress '08 in Barcelona this week. Companies like Texas Instruments have been showing off prototypes running the Android operating system -- and by the sounds of it, people can't get enough. Engadget has some early pictures of what attendees are...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=922

Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: virus

I don't want to start a debate here over who invented anti-virus. According to DarkReading it is Peter Tippett.(see the recent debate over who invented the firewall here. Is Dark Reading going to also knight the inventor of malware if they can track him down?) In...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=532

Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: google

Given that I am not in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress (nev kinda like the music I am not in a physical space where I can view all the Google Android. But I am in a space where I can monitor what's going on, and offer...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3202

Date: 02/09/08     Keywords: blogging, yahoo, microsoft

My ZDNet blogging colleague Larry Dignan asks what Yahoo's Plan B will be, now that it reportedly is turning down Microsoft's $44 acquisition billion bid because it is too low. But I'm wondering about the flip-side of this equation: What is Microsoft's Plan B if it fails to snag Yahoo?...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1170

Date: 02/09/08     Keywords: software

AV Test reported that it saw 5.49 mln unique samples of malicious software in 2007, 5x more than the 972,606 it saw in 2006. by AM

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13886

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: security

For years now I've been trying to define DRM and how commercial companies use it to lock consumers into a buying cycle.  Finally I've found a definition that's just perfect. The definition comes from security guru Bruce Schneier: In my last column, I talked about the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1246

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: web

The "failure" of a major diabetes study has reporters and their sources wringing their hands. This should not be. (The picture is from the WebMD's doctors' site, medicinenet.) Science often makes wrong turns, especially when it's applied in the form of engineering or products....

Source: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=699

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: security, web

Mozilla on Friday delivered its Firefox 2.0.0.12 update including patches that fix a Web forgery flaw, browsing history and forward navigation stealing and the directory traversal via chrome, which has been the most visible vulnerability of late. According to the Firefox security advisory, Mozilla filed the following...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=870

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

If things weren't bad enough last night with the computer problems I had, things got worse when AT&T decided to do an unannounced maintenance.  This was sort of similar to the massive network outage last year where the network goes down but they don't even bother to tell their own...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=995

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: security, microsoft

Microsoft on Thursday issued advance notice of 12 security bulletins ahead of its February batch of patches with seven critical flaws affecting Vista, Internet Explorer and Office. The most notable patch will likely cover that Excel zero day vulnerability that surfaced last month. Since Microsoft confirmed the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=866

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

An alert blogger at BuggStompers picked up a brochure at his last visit to the bank. The brochure, titled "Protect Yourself From Malware" points you to a site to download Spybot search and destroy. But it is not Patrick Kolla's site at Safe Networking that they provide....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=530

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

The OpenID Foundation on Thursday said that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined its board. The additions--Yahoo joined OpenID last month and made its accounts compatible--are a big boost to the single sign-on initiative. While these newcomers are a nice addition to the board it's...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7918

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: software

CollabNet CTO Jack Repenning called in yesterday, all a-dither about Jazz being a "trojan horse" on behalf of IBM's Rational software tools. Jazz is merely a checkpoint to indicate distributed software development tools are still coming, he said. "I used Rational as a user for years, and...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1986

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

So what's going on with telecom cable interruptions in the Middle East? First a ship's anchor cut into two high-priority cables -- Flag Telecom's Europe-Asia cable and the consortium-owned SEA-ME-WE 4 system. That pretty seriously damaged communications in the Middle East and choked - but didn't cut off - traffic...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3644

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: web

Apple on Wednesday dropped a patch for QuickTime to fix a arbitrary code execution vulnerability. Relative to other recent QuickTime patches this one was small--only one vulnerability that could lead to an "unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution" if a user visits a malicious Web site....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=860

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: security

WordPress has released version 2.3.3 to plug a flaw that would allow a specially crafted request to edit posts of other users on that blog. In a post, WordPress noted that 2.3.3 is "an urgent security release." You can fix the flaw without downloading the new version....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=859

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: security

If you got a prompt to upgrade your Adobe Reader to version 8.1.2 you're not alone. Betcha didn't know it's a major security fix though. Why? You wouldn't know because Adobe hasn't told anyone. The best information you'll get is a few snippets in an Adobe Knowledge...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=858

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: security, spam

For the third month running, compromised computers in Europe have pushed out more spam than those in the U.S. European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. Symantec...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6229352.html

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

Let's say there was a compelling product on sale that interested you.  Maybe it's a games console, or maybe it's a player of some kind.  Or it could even be a service such as iTunes or Audible.  Let's say that you really wanted what this product or service had to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1229

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

Every time I build a new Windows computer, there are a dozen free and essential applications that I always install for other people. These applications all seem to fill essential functions and they all seem to be well-behaved installers and uninstallers, in other words it won't crash your computer or...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=989