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New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware
via Slashdot by timothy on May 19, 2008
yahoi writes "A new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Top 10 Unseen Street View Sights
via Google Sightseeing by Alex on June 02, 2008
It’s been a whole year since Google first launched their controversial Street View service, and we posted our first Street View sight. Since then we’ve seen the rate of discovery of the most bizarre and unusual finds increase as Google has added more and more US cities to the roster.With the service due to launch soon in Canada, Italy, Spain, Australia and Japan, we thought we’d mark the...
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Linux.com :: What can you do with a second Ethernet port?
via www.linux.com by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by mcastel Capita propro a fagiolo questo articolo, essendo il sottoscritto utilizzatore di un pc con Linux Mint e due porte ethernet (e non sapendo ancora come usare la seconda!) ;)Purchase a new PC or motherboard soon, and the chances are good that it will come with two built-in network interfaces -- either two Ethernet jacks or one Ethernet and one Wi-Fi. Tossing in a second adapter is...
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MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source
via Slashdot by kdawson on May 05, 2008
krow writes "I am very happy to be announcing that MySQL will be forgoing close sourcing portions of the MySQL Server. Kaj has the official statement in his blog. No portion of the server will be closed source including backup, encryption, or any storage engines we ship. To quote Kaj 'The encryption and compression backup features will be open source.' This is a change from what was...
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Comic for May 22, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
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Comic for May 28, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
Shared by Just Mohit Corporate Information Security runs amok :)
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Woopra - Impresionante sistema de estadísticas para tu sitio web
via Wwwhat's new? by Juan Diego Polo on June 03, 2008
Hace mucho que indiqué acreditesequiser.net como un sitio para ser aceptado en la versión beta de Woopra. Hoy, por fin, me han aceptado y he empezado a recibir datos estadísticos de acceso al blog.Woopra necesita que instaléis un código en las páginas de vuestro sitio, igual que cualquier otro sistema de análisis de visitas (como google analytics). Una vez instalado el código podréis...
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Libertad
via Microsiervos by no-reply@microsiervos.com (Alvy) on June 16, 2008
Ve a trabajar, envía a tus niños a la escuela, sige la moda, compórtate normalmente, camina por la acera, mira la tele, ahorra para cuando seas viejo, obedece la Ley y repite conmigo: soy libre.– Graffitti en Philip St, Bristolparafraseando a Trainspotting, diríase# Enlace Permanente
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The $54 Million Laptop
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on February 12, 2008
Stanislav_J writes "It happens to the best of us: you drop off your laptop at the local branch of some Super Mega Electronics McStore, go to pick it up, and they can't find it. Lost, gone, kaput — probably sucked into a black hole and now breeding with lost airline luggage. It would make any of us mad, but Raelyn Campbell of Washington, D.C. isn't just mad — she's $54 million mad....
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