Mac Hack Contest Redux
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITnarramissic writes “Remember the controversial Mac hacking contest from last year’s CanSecWest conference? No? Here’s a refresher: Conference organizers challenged attendees to hack into a Macintosh laptop, with the successful hacker winning the computer and a cash prize. Winner Dino Dai Zovi found a QuickTime bug that allowed him to run unauthorized software on the Mac once the computer’s browser was directed to a specially crafted Web page. 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.”"
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Users Worldwide Feel Internet Is 'Safer'
buzzardsbay 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.
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)
Luke Welling reminds WordPress users that they need to update their installations to help keep them safe from a recent security issue that has come up. 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.
ProDevTips.com: Why PHP As A Templating Language Sucks
This is my take on this whole rantgenre. He points out an article from the why it doesn't suck sort of from Brian Lozier that he thinks misses the heart of the issue. 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.
FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B In Bids
That's undoubtedly good news for the agency. 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.
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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
It allows to reference elements of an array an arbitrary depth using a single string that represents the element array indexes separated with commas. The class can take an element index string and set or get its value, check if the element is set, or check it is empty or return the count of entries if the element is an array.
Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism?
Anonymous Coward writes "The Washington Post has an article about the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's take on the numerous virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) that have cropped up in recent years. IARPA's thesis is that because the Government can't currently monitor all the communication and interaction, terrorists will plot and scheme in such environments."Read more of this story at Slashdot.