Moxie Marlinspike will be at the Security Summit 2010 this year at the Sandton Convention Centre – well, at least he’s on the lineup – and should give some insights; Jeremiah Grosman is back (from White Hat Security) and Joe Grand (from l0pht Heavy Industries – remember l0phtCrack?) will also have some words to say. Lets hope that the vendor presentations will be kept a mi ...
While so many corporates are still locked into a Windows XP / IE6 platform, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) looms on the horizon, “now even more compliant” (don’t you just love that: “not quite, but getting there…”) In an effort to make Windows XP finally disappear from the landscape through a ‘force migration’ to Windows 7, Microsoft has released a stat ...
Google is going to shut down google.cn with a likelyhood some webhosts give as their uptime guarantee. With a reported 99.9% certainty, google.cn is going to power down, not due to business, but, as Eric Schmidt, Google CEO says, about the cencorship rules. Not, quite clearly then, as a reaction to Operation Aurora… Li Yizhong, the Chinese minister for industry and information technology, s ...
And many more will follow, cos this is quite fun! 🙂 Let’s see how the social spidering kicks in… ...
A Swiss firm, Objectif Sécurité, makers of Ophcrack_Office (for Word and Excel files) and Ophcrack Open Source (over at sourceforge.net), has tweaked their application to crack XP passwords with up to 14 characters on a Steady State Drive interface (think of large, light, laptop drive using Flashdrive technology) through rainbow tables (pre-calculated hashes) in an average of 5.3s. Seek times on ...
So twelve days after jQuery UI 1.8RC3 was released, which followed the release of the previous release candidate – 1.8RC2 after less than 2 weeks, the release of the final jQuery UI 1.8 is only a few days (moments?) away – seeing that 1.8RC3 is the final version before final release. In itself, the UI RC3 release has a huge set of fixes built into it already (listed below, as presente ...
News from the Eastern Cape: Bhisho’s Health Department headquarters have had their telephone lines cut thanks to the department’s unpaid Telkom bill of more than R23 million This is what the Daily Dispatch reported today. Bhisho is in the Eastern Cape, and is the administrative capital of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. ...
Over at toni.org, Toni Schneider gives some points about the values of Distributed Companies – including easier hiring, better communications, better office environments and more ‘social’ aspects… The list is certainly not exhaustive and some of those points (including time zones!!) need to be rethought, but it’s a good starting point for an argument! ...
Citing Twitter and Chrome issue, ma.tt has come back home to the world of Firefox! But then again, why leave? ...
I think I’ve already shared my thoughts on the iPad — the device that will have to create its own market gap, and then fill it, and then prove that it was perfect to fill that market gap. Now, the idea of using the “tether” function as added towards the middle of 2009 (though not supported well by networks – due to data volumes?) was touted for use with the non-3G en ...