Topic: COMPUTER - on May 21, 2010 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
German High Court Declares All Software Patentable
Long gone are the times when Europe was that bastion of resistance against software patents and patents on such things as file systems were ruled invalid. In a decision published today, the Federal Court of Justice of Germany upheld a patent on the automatic generation of structured documents (such as XML/HTML) in a client-server setting.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 11, 2010 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
13 Open Source Hardware Companies Making $1 Million or More (video)
Selling products whose design anyone can access, edit, or use on their own is pretty crazy. It’s also good business. At the annual hacker conference Foo Camp East this year, Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried from Adafruit Industries gave a rapid fire five minute presentation on thirteen companies with million dollar revenues from open source hardware (OSHW). Companies providing OSHW allow all designs of the products to be shared through an open license, meaning that everyone is free to download, modify, and share all the schematics and associated software. You’re encouraged to make, refine, or even sell your own versions of these products. While this business model is counter-intuitive for those used to our patent and copyright loving system, Torrone and Fried estimate that the industry will reach a billion dollars by 2015. Check out their talk in the video below.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 11, 2010 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
US prosecution of McKinnon 'spiteful', says ex-top cop
The senior former policeman in charge of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit squad which first arrested Gary McKinnon has described the ongoing US prosecution of the Pentagon hacker as "spiteful".
Marc Kirby, retired former detective inspector at the NHTCU, was in charge of the team which first arrested McKinnon for cybercrime offences in 2002. US attempts to extradite McKinnon only started three years later in 2005, after the signature of a controversial extradition treaty between the US and UK.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2010 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
Simple As Pie!: How To Print From The iPad
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 7, 2010 at 9:48:00 AM CEST
PDF security hole opens can of worms
The security perils of PDF files have been further highlighted by new research illustrating how a manipulated file might be used to infect other PDF files on a system.
Jeremy Conway, an application security researcher at NitroSecurity, said the attack scenario he has discovered shows PDFs are "wormable". Computer viruses are capable, by definition, of overwriting other files to spread. Conway's research is chiefly notable for illustrating how a benign PDF file might become infected using features supported by PDF specification, not a software vulnerability as such, and without the use of external binaries or JavaScript.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 6, 2010 at 9:01:00 AM CEST
Video: Hackers Have Already Jailbroken the iPad
The iPad has only been on sale for less than three days, and already hackers have jailbroken it to get around Apple’s restrictions.
MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just a day of tinkering. The hack gave him root access to the iPad and allowed him to install non-approved applications and to run apps simultaneously. It uses the same exploit employed to jailbreak the current OS 3.1.3 iPhone.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2010 at 10:11:00 AM CET
Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives
With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 22, 2010 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Selbstmord: Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth ist tot
Letzte Nacht ist einer der schillernsten Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Netzgemeinde freiwillig aus dem Leben geschieden. Günter Werner Freiherr von Gravenreuth hat sich letzte Nacht erschossen.
Um 01:15 Uhr schickte Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth eine Abschiedsmail an all seine Kontakte. In seinem "letzten Gruß in die Runde" gab er bekannt, dass er sich nun mit einer scharfen Waffe umbringen würde. Die in der E-Mail genannten Motive für seinen Selbstmord sind sehr vielfältig aber alle privater Natur. Mittlerweile wurde uns die Tat von mehreren Seiten bestätigt.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 8, 2009 at 10:51:00 AM CET
WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service
Moxie Marlinspike, a security researcher well known for his SSL/TLS attacks, today launched a cloud-based WPA cracking service, where for $34 you can test the security of your WPA password. The WPA Cracker Web site states: 'WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2009 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
Linux: Access 100+ Games Instantly With DJL
For those who always feel that gaming is not suitable in Linux OS and it is always an hassle to install and get games to run in Linux platform, then DJL will definitely change the way you think.
Djl is an open-source (GPL licensed) game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux Operating Systems. In short, it is an application that allows you to install/uninstall/manage your games easily. With Djl, you can browse through its repository of 100+ games and install the game you want with a simple click. No longer do you need to worry about game dependencies and all the command lines.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 14, 2009 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Microsoft releases biggest patch on record
Microsoft Corp issued its biggest software patch on record on Tuesday to fix a range of security issues in its programs, including the yet to be released Windows 7 operating system.
In a monthly update sent to users of its software, Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, or patches, to address 34 vulnerabilities it identified across its Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office and other products.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 7, 2009 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
Look through the AR window
“Augmented Reality is your window to the world,” suggest some companies who have released applications for the iPhone 3G S and Android handsets over the past few months. As we have witnessed since the launch of Layar in June, the world needed another “window.” Or, perhaps we needed another browser? Have you heard about the World Surfer by GeoVector?
oreilly.com Mobile Social Networks: An Interview With Christine Perey perey.com
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