FBI Says Military Had Counterfeit Cisco Routers
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITThere are new developments in the case of the counterfeit Cisco routers, which we have been discussing or some time. The NYTimes updates the story after an FBI PowerPoint presentation made its way onto the Web. It seems that experts at Cisco have examined some of the counterfeit routers in detail and proclaimed that they contain no back doors. Others don’t believe we can be so sure. “Last month, [DARPA] began distributing chips with hidden Trojan horse circuitry to military contractors who are participating in the agency’s Trusted Integrated Circuits program. The goal is to test forensic techniques for finding hidden electronic trap doors, which can be maddeningly elusive… The threat was demonstrated in April when a team of computer scientists from the University of Illinois presented a paper at a technical conference in San Francisco detailing how they had modified a Sun Microsystems SPARC microprocessor… The researchers were able to create a stealth system that would allow them to automatically log in to a computer and steal passwords.”
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AJAX World - Xceed Launches Microsoft Silverlight 2 Control
The product is available now for purchase or as a fully functional 45-day trial on Xceed's website. Xceed Upload for Silverlight lets developers add upload capabilities to any Silverlight 2 Beta 1 application. All upload operations are asynchronous; as a result, the Web page hosting the Silverlight application remains perfectly responsive and usable throughout the transfer.
Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc
One user said in a Microsoft newsgroup: 'I downloaded and installed [the SP3] package for IT Professionals and Developers on one of my computers. Now I can't get the computer to boot. I don't think Microsoft should have made this a critical update.' Other sites including IT Wire are also reporting problems, which include include random reboots or the inability to boot at all." Note that XP3 won't install on systems running beta IE8; and after a successful SP3 install users will no longer be able to downgrade from IE7 to IE6.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
New Synchronization Features In EValid Support AJAX Application Testing
This new eValid capability allows testers to address AJAX applications -- which by nature are 'asynchronous' -- in a reliable way. Once the playback synchronization is determined, eValid test scripts play back reliably, independent of how long the internal AJAX operations require.
AJAX World - Skyway Software Announces RIA Developer Contest
According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway Community.' With Skyway Builder CE, Java developers get an open source Eclipse-based plugin that offers a seamless blend of coding and modeling for delivering RIAs and Web Services in Spring.
Debug System
The class may also output arbitrary debugging messages also formatted as HTML. Optionally, the messages may include the current values of super-global variables. The debug output may be displayed as the current script output or added to a given log file.
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Dell Pre-Installing XenServer
Citrix says that Dell has started pre-installing XenServer on PowerEdge servers at the factory for worldwide distribution. It said XenServer Dell products are the only virtualization solutions to integrate Dell's OpenManage agent technology, which is supposed to make customer feel comfortable.
Number To Turkish Text
Package: Number to Turkish text Summary: Spell quantity numbers in Turkish Groups: Localization, Text processing Author: Yetkin Sakal Description: This class can be used to spell quantity numbers using Turkish words. It takes a number with up to 21 digits and generates a text strings that spell the number using Turkish words.
Gmail As Open-Relay Spam Server
Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo trust Gmail as a source of mail. "A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google's e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine. According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack that allows a spammer to send thousands of bulk e-mails through Google's SMTP service without fear of detection.
Gerar Tabela Semanticamente Correta
It can compose the definition of a table by adding rows, cells and captions. The class can display the defined table by generating its HTML as part of the current script output. The code and comments are in Portuguese.
Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business?
Tighten the rules up and then maybe an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended recipient, and I get bitched at. Manually reading through all those subject lines is supposed to prevent that, but I'm only human and genuine messages can easily get overlooked.