(10/03/2010) Boletines de seguridad de Microsoft en marzo

Este martes Microsoft ha publicado dos boletines de seguridad (MS10-016 y MS10-017) correspondientes a su ciclo habitual de actualizaciones. Según la propia clasificación de Microsoft ambos boletines presentan un nivel de gravedad "importante". En total

2010/03/11

(09/03/2010) Nuevo 0-day en Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft informa de una vulnerabilidad en el navegador Internet Explorer que podría permitir a un atacante remoto ejecutar código arbitrario, con los permisos del usuario, a través de un sitio web especialmente manipulado.

2010/03/11

Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward

An anonymous reader writes "The IEEE MAN/LAN Standards Committee — better known as the people who brought us Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth — is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week. This article has interviews with the original committee

2010/03/11

New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff

tad001 writes "The Japanese phone giant KDDI has developed a way to track users movements in fine detail. It works by analyzing the movement of accelerometers, found in many handsets. Activities such as walking, climbing stairs, or even cleaning can be id

2010/03/11

Former TSA Analyst Charged With Computer Tampering

angry tapir writes "A Transportation Security Administration analyst has been indicted with tampering with databases used by the TSA to identify possible terrorists who may be trying to fly in the US. If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison."

2010/03/11

"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup

An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT holiday month to h

2010/03/11

Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps?

alobar72 writes "I have quite a few old maps (several hundreds; 100+ years old, some are already damaged – so time is not on my side). What I want to do is to digitize them and to apply geo-coordinates to them so I can use them as overlays for opens

2010/03/10

(08/03/2010) Actualización del kernel para OpenSuSE Linux 11

OpenSuSE ha publicado una actualización para el kernel de OpenSuSE Linux 11 que corrige diversos problemas de seguridad.

2010/03/10

(07/03/2010) Una vez más, malware en aplicaciones legítimas

No es la primera vez que ocurre, y por desgracia tampoco será la última. A través de una-al-día ya hemos informado en más de una ocasión sobre malware distribuidos es aplicaciones legalmente adquiridas; en esta ocasión y de forma casi simultanea se

2010/03/10

US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly

eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estima

2010/03/10

NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s

adeelarshad82 writes "After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot.

2010/03/09

(06/03/2010) Vulnerabilidad en kit de desarrollo Autonomy KeyView afecta a diversos fabricantes

Se ha confirmado la existencia de de una vulnerabilidad en el kit de desarrollo Autonomy KeyView que afecta a diversos fabricantes como Symantec o IBM.

2010/03/09

(05/03/2010) Disponibles los vídeos del Cuarto DISI 2009 en Canal YouTube UPM

Ya se encuentran editados los vídeos del Cuarto Día Internacional de la Seguridad de la Información DISI 2009 celebrado el 30 de noviembre de 2009 en la EUITT del campus sur de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, organizado por la Cátedra UPM Applu

2010/03/09

Gas Wants To Kill the Wind

RABarnes writes "Scientific American has posted an article about the political efforts of natural gas and electric utilities to limit the growth of wind-generated electricity. Although several of the points raised by the utilities and carbon-based generat

2010/03/08

A Balanced Look At Cellphone Radiation

A month back we discussed an article in GQ on the alarmist side of the cellphone-radiation question. Now reader pgn674 passes along a PopSci feature article looking at the current state of cellphone radiation research. It profiles people who claim to be e

2010/03/07

California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry

An anonymous reader writes "California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. Is this the slippery slope to further government mandated lists

2010/03/06

(04/03/2010) Denegación de servicio a través de ntpd en IBM AIX

IBM ha confirmado la existencia de una vulnerabilidad en AIX 5.3 y 6.1 que soluciona un fallo que podría permitir a un atacante provocar condiciones de denegación de servicio.

2010/03/06

How MySpace Generates Enough Load To Test Itself

An anonymous reader points out this article about "how a big site like MySpace uses thousands of cloud computing cores to do performance testing on its live site. There are some really great numbers in there from the performance tests, like generating 16G

2010/03/04

Researchers Find Way To Zap RSA Algorithm

alphadogg writes "Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and e-commerce servers. RSA authentication is suscep

2010/03/04

(03/03/2010) Vulnerabilidades de denegación de servicio en Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Cisco ha confirmado la existencia de cinco vulnerabilidades de denegación de servicio en Cisco Unified Communications Manager (versiones 4.x, 5.x, 6.x y 7.x).

2010/03/04