Users Worldwide Feel Internet Is ‘Safer’
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITbuzzardsbay writes “Baseline Magazine is reporting on a study by Cisco that teases out the differing attitudes about online security among users across the globe. For instance, remote workers worldwide think the internet is getting safer … except the folks in Italy and Germany. These folks also have a lot of faith in their corporate IT departments as 51 percent said their work computers are more secure than their personal PCs, and nearly half (45 percent) believe they are more vulnerable to malware and hacks when they’re working outside their corporate perimeter. Irony of ironies, the Brazilians hold Net security in the highest regard.”
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Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
Harrington writes "In another stunning blow to the security and integrity of Diebold's electronic voting machines, someone has made a copy of the key which opens ALL Diebold e-voting machines from a picture on the company's own website. " Update: 02/06 17:40 GMT by Z : We previously discussed this story, early last year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Community News: Upgrade Your WordPress To 2.3.3 (Security Issue Found)
If you have a WordPress blog it would be worth your time to install this update to 2.3.3, or at least replace xmlrpc.php. This is being actively exploited. You can find out more about the exploit here on the WordPress website (including another issue with the WP_Forum plugin as well).
ProDevTips.com: Why PHP As A Templating Language Sucks
He suggests the opposite, however that PHP as a templating language (templating software written in PHP sitting on top of a PHP application) is a really bad idea. It only adds overhead that most developers, unless they're experienced with the technology enough to know how to use it, will only work around (like the {php}{/php} tags in Smarty).
FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B In Bids
Since the auction began on Jan. 24, both the FCC and wireless experts have expressed ongoing concerns about meeting those estimates. Once the auction was underway, those worries were compounded by a shaky economic forecast and the possibility of a looming recession."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OPC DataHub Uses Streaming AJAX And New Java Applets To Create Dynamic Web Pages
The OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems now provides even more ways to visualize and interact with real-time data in a web browser. Its new streaming AJAX Web Data Browser displays immediate updates to data from a wide range of sources like databases, spreadsheets, and OPC servers.
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Mac Hack Contest Redux
Well, the contest is back again this year, but with a twist, says Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of CanSecWest: 'We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux ... and see which one goes first.""Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Microsoft Responds To 'Save XP' Petition
"We're seeing positive indicators that we're already starting to move from the early adoption phase into the mainstream and that more and more businesses are beginning their planning and deployment of Windows Vista," the company said. Nevertheless vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and more recently NEC, all offer the opportunity to downgrade to XP Pro."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
AJAX-Based Rich Internet Applications: Backbase Enterprise Ajax 4.1.2 Kicks Off 2008
Newly released in three editions - a free Community Edition for development and deployment up to one server and 2CPUs, a Client Edition, and a JSF Edition - Backbase Enterprise Ajax 4.1.2 is the latest version of San Mateo, CA-based Backbase's flagship AJAX framework for the Enterprise.
MySQL2JSON
Package: MySQL2JSON Summary: Generate JSON representation from MySQL queries Groups: Databases Author: Ellery Leung Description: This class can be used to generate a JSON representation of data returned by MySQL queries. It can execute given MySQL and traverse the result set to generate a JSON representation of the data in the result rows and columns.
Multi-Dimensional Array Handler
Package: Multi-Dimensional Array Handler Summary: Access multi-dimensional arrays with a single key Groups: Data types, PHP 5 Author: Colin Jermain Description: This class can be used to access multi-dimensional array entries with a single string entry key. It allows to reference elements of an array an arbitrary depth using a single string that represents the element array indexes separated with commas.