Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Free, open-source boot disk utility Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) automatically and completely deletes the content of every hard disk it can find on your computer when you run it. Sure you can fire up DBAN for emergency system wipes next time the feds come knocking on your door, but ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Storm, Srizbi, and... Microsoft? Microsoft’s Office application security team actually runs its own internal botnet, which, among other things, “fuzzes” for vulnerabilities in Office applications.
Microsoft’s botnet isn’t anywhere near the size of Srizbi (over 300,000 bots at last count) nor any of the other mega-botnets -- it’s just a couple ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were found in within Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003/2007. An attacker can craft a malicious email which will trigger within a user's browser. Different version of OWA and different clients (Light and Premium) have different attack vectors which can result in an attacker gaining *persistent* ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Amazon is expected to launch a streaming video service today that will either compliment or replace the company's Amazon Unbox download store. The New York Times reports that Amazon Video on Demand will let users begin watching movies the instant they click they place an order. It's not clear from ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Windows only (for the moment): Microsoft has thrown open the doors to a "tech preview" of its Live Mesh service, a kind of web-boosted version of Lifehacker favorite folder-syncing tool FolderShare, with a bit of remote desktop connection thrown in. Signing up with a Windows Live ID gets you 5 ...
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