Monthly Archives: April 2008
Major ISPs Injecting Ads, Vulnerabilities into Entire Web
DNS security guru Dan Kaminsky says the practice by major ISPs to deploy advertising servers within trademarked domains (on error pages, for example) can...
Berkman Center for Internet & Society Turns 10
The Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary. What, you don't know about the Berkman...
IT Managers Plan to Hire Fewer Grads This Year
As if the economic outlook of IT workers wasn't dismal enough--IT worker confidence is at its lowest point since 2005, layoffs and large outsourcing...
Microsoft (Belatedly) Admits to Windows Server 2008 Token Kidnapping
]Last month, when I wrote about hacker Cesar Cerrudo's (left) plans to punch holes in the security model of Microsoft's brand-new Windows Server 2008,...
Keeping Data Out of the Clear
To aid the retail industry's continuing effort to safeguard customer data during the acceptance and processing of electronic transactions, MagTek is offering a new...
Google Slays Earnings Beast, Smacks ComScore
Mess with Google's mind share, and feel the backlash. That's the lesson ComScore learned Thursday after Google handily beat first-quarter financial expectations by announcing...
ISPs Assailed at FCC Hearing
STANFORD, Calif.-Several large Internet service providers-namely Comcast Communications, AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon-were verbally battered April 17 by private citizens, free-Internet access advocates and...
Microsoft Will Kill ActiveX Controls – If You Ask
Microsoft's April Patch Day disclosed serious vulnerabilities and important patches to the operating system, but in the long term I think the most interesting...
Curl Enters Desktop Wars
At the Web 2.0 Expo April 21, Curl is expected to announce the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension...
Taxes Take Toll in Tech Too
It's tax time! April 15 is not anyone's favorite date, but as we scramble to dig out receipts for dinners long past and try...