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Dec 17, 2008 10:15 AM
GNU guru Richard Stallman sent me an e-mail the other day complaining that we erred by saying that the Free Software Foundation, of which he's president, promotes open source software. "We have never supported the idea of 'open source' because that idea denies the importance of users' freedom," he writes. Read on for the dizzying semantics behind Richard's argument, and why I think his obsessive attempts at language control Read the rest of this entry »
December 12, 2008 10:12 AM PST
Can we even be close to certain that this letter is not a hoax?
December 12, 2008 10:35 AM PST
I think I am in love with her. More power to you Woman of the great Redmond! Its people like her we need to keep AppleRocks and Pengunisto under check. December 12, 2008 10:38 AM PST
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
December 12, 2008 11:26 AM PST
As a former teacher, I can say four things for certain:
1) Read the rest of this entry »
December 12, 2008 10:12 AM PST
Can we even be close to certain that this letter is not a hoax?
December 12, 2008 10:35 AM PST
I think I am in love with her. More power to you Woman of the great Redmond! Its people like her we need to keep AppleRocks and Pengunisto under check. December 12, 2008 10:38 AM PST
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
December 12, 2008 11:26 AM PST
As a former teacher, I can say four things for certain:
1) Read the rest of this entry »
Did you know that you can buy a keystroke logger for $23 or pay $10 to have someone host your phishing scam? Having a botnet at your fingertips will cost you $225, and a tool that exploits a vulnerability on a banking site averages $740 and runs as high as $3,000.
That's according to the Symantec Report on the Internet Underground Economy due to be released Monday.
Symantec researchers spent a year observing the chat among cybercriminals on IRC Read the rest of this entry »
November 11, 2008 5:00 PM PST
There is always one article/source to bring down the party. I have read numerous reports of Windows 7 being a far improvement to the Windows product line. Included in these reports is that Windows 7 while still only being a pre-beta build is not only fast but can be considered one of the most stable Windows versions to date, this is incredible in a pre-beta.
Not to discredit InfoWorld because I do read their magazine, Read the rest of this entry »
While the Windows platform has become much more resistant to malware attacks, Microsoft-based applications have now become the focus of vulnerabilities, according to research firm Ovum.
"Microsoft's work in improving its Windows platform has been paying off and attackers are turning to attacking applications rather than platforms," said Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum.
Microsoft's Security Intelligence report indicated that operating Read the rest of this entry »
The era of operating system vulnerability is slowly drawing to a close, with more than nine out of 10 published software vulnerabilities now appearing in applications, Microsoft's latest half-yearly report has suggested.
According to the company's Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2008, OS vulnerabilities are now stable at between 6 and 8 percent of those reported, a level they have been at since the first half of 2006. Vulnerabilities Read the rest of this entry »
The era of operating system vulnerability is slowly drawing to a close, with more than nine out of 10 published software vulnerabilities now appearing in applications, Microsoft's latest half-yearly report has suggested.
According to the company's Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2008, OS vulnerabilities are now stable at between 6 and 8 percent of those reported, a level they have been at since the first half of 2006. Vulnerabilities Read the rest of this entry »
The era of operating system vulnerability is slowly drawing to a close, with more than nine out of 10 published software vulnerabilities now appearing in applications, Microsoft's latest half-yearly report has suggested.
According to the company's Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2008, OS vulnerabilities are now stable at between 6 and 8 percent of those reported, a level they have been at since the first half of 2006. Vulnerabilities Read the rest of this entry »
Software Is Dead? Benioff Says He May Have Exaggerated Demise
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made a splash with his announcements of ties to Facebook and Amazon's compute cloud at his firm's Dreamforce user group meeting this week. "None of these announcements will produce discrete revenue," points out Steven Ashley, the Robert W. Baird investment bank analyst who shared my table at lunch. Then again, they don't necessarily need to.
Instead of banking Read the rest of this entry »
December 12, 2008 10:38 AM PST