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ASUS Eee PC and Linux vmsplice Vulnerabilities
It wasn’t a good weekend for Linux. The ultraportable ASUS Eee PC has seen quite a bit of publicity lately. With prices starting as low as $300, it’s about as cheap as laptops get, and runs on a solid-state drive instead of a hard disk. Of course, to get such a low price, it doesn’t [...]
Record Companies Still Don’t Understand DRM
So, there’s been a lot of news about Qtrax, a new music download service approved by the major record labels. It sounds like a good thing for consumers — a Songbird-based browser lets you select pretty much any song imaginable, including the entire catalog of songs available from iTunes, and download it freely and legally. [...]
WPAD: Internet Explorer’s Worst Feature
If you run Internet Explorer, you may have noticed that often when you first load up IE and try to navigate to a web page, there’s a delay of a few seconds longer than there is on subsequent page loads. This is because IE is trying to automatically detect your proxy settings. Inside Internet Options [...]
Sears & KMart’s Official Malware
CA’s Security Advisor Research Blog has an interesting post about a bit of malware they discovered when doing research for their Anti-Spyware product — the My SHC Community system. You’re offered a chance to join when you buy something from sears.com or kmart.com. The system offers you “special offers and promotions,” the usual marketing stuff [...]
Securing Data at Rest with Cryptography
Over at Schneier on Security, Bruce Schneier has a post today about securing data on disk. Encryption is often sold as a panacea for all security problems — which it’s not — but keeping people from reading your data if they steal your laptop is one thing encryption is really good at, and it’s an [...]
