NSA Releases Historical Documents on TEMPEST
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITsgunhouse writes to mention Wired’s Threat Level has a piece on a recently-declassified document detailing the history of TEMPEST. “It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted teletype terminal used by the Army and Navy to transmit wartime communications that could defy German and Japanese cryptanalysis. Then he noticed something odd. Far across the lab, a freestanding oscilloscope had developed a habit of spiking every time the teletype encrypted a letter. Upon closer inspection, the spikes could actually be translated into the plain message the machine was processing. Though he likely didn’t know it at the time, the engineer had just discovered that all information processing machines send their secrets into the electromagnetic ether.”
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Data Structures
Package: Data Structures Summary: Manage lists of objects similar to J2SE ArrayList Groups: Data types, PHP 5 Author: Bryan Chen Description: This class can be used to manage lists of objects in a similar way to Java J2SE ArrayList class. It provides means to reset the array, add, retrieve, replace and remove objects from the array, and sort the array.
A Look At Some Heavy Hitters And Newcomers In The RIA Market
But what tools will give us the best bang for our buck? Here is a look at some heavy hitters and newcomers in the RIA market, including: HTML & AJAX, Rails and Grails, Flex, Silverlight, Curl, GWT, OpenLaszlo, and Appcelerator.
Reflex VSA Furthers Virtualization Visibility And Access Control
Reflex Security announced an initiative to further develop key visibility and access control functionality in its Reflex VSA (Virtual Security Appliance) Solution. Dubbed 'VISability,' for the ability to enable Virtual Infrastructure Security, the initiative to take the approach that without the ability to visualize both the logical and physical elements of a virtual network, comprehensive security cannot be achieved.
The Way Of The Widget
These portable applets appear on blogs, websites, and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Offered by third-party developers as embedded Flash (.swf) objects, the self-contained badges allow page owners to personalize their sites with photo slide shows, music playlists, games, and other content.
Fault-Tolerant Software For Server Virtualization
Marathon Technologies announced the general availability of everRun VM , the fault-tolerant software for server virtualization. With the release of everRun VM, Marathon is eliminating one of the major barriers to broader server virtualization adoption - the lack of reliable high availability for virtual servers - and providing customers with the assurance that critical data, networks and applications will be protected in virtual server environments.
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DICT Client
It can connect to a DICT server and execute several types of queries. The class can retrieve the list of available databases, the list of available strategies, information about a given database, the status and information about the server, a list of matching entries for a given word in a database using a given strategy, definitions of a word in a database,
Microsoft-Yahoo! - Microsoft Fails To Make Up Its Mind What To Do Next
Despite meeting yesterday, the Microsoft Board of Directors - according to the Wall St. Journal - has not decided whether its $31 a share offer for Yahoo!, which has fallen in value to $29 a share in line with a fall in Microsoft's own stock value, should be hoisted to $33 a share in an attempt to keep alive Redmond's two-year pursuit of the Silicon Valley based search giant.
DARPA Sponsors A Hunt For Malware In Microchips
... In January, the Trust program started its prequalifying rounds by sending to three contractors four identical versions of a chip that contained unspecified malicious circuitry. The teams have until the end of this month to ferret out as many of the devious insertions as they can."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Storm Botnet Subsides For Now
MessageLabs' Intelligence Report for April 2008 said that new malicious software removal tools aimed at removing Storm infections were responsible for the sudden reduction in Storm-infected computers." According to their estimate, Storm-compromised computers are now down to about 100,000 rather than numbers closer to two million.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OpenBSD 4.3 Released
An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 4.3 is now available! Released today, May 1, 2008, 4.3 introduces many new improvements and upgrades. The complete changelog is here. Torrents can be found here." As usual, this release is accompanied by a song.Read more of this story at Slashdot.