Monthly Archives: December 2008

PlayStations 3 used to exploit inet authentication

12/30/2008 – 17:28

A team of U.S. and European computer security researchers have used a cluster of several hundred Sony PlayStation 3 video-game machines to exploit a basic weakness in the software system used to protect commercial transactions made via the Internet. The attack is possible because a handful of commercial organizations that provide components of the basic [...]

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fim de um ano ou anos..

12/20/2008 – 13:15

Huns, para algumas empresas esta costuma ser a altura em que se começam a fazer as ultimas contas e a preparar o novo ano, o mesmo se passa com as pessoas quando olhamos para tras e reflectimos acerca do que foi feito e o que deixou de ser feito no ano, e é obvio que [...]

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Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex?

12/14/2008 – 10:36

Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. In conjunction with Harris Interactive, the company conducted a survey of adults in the United States under the prosaic-enough banner “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy.” But the first “key finding” from the study [...]

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US teacher detains student for using Linux

12/12/2008 – 17:19

Texas teacher accuses HeliOS of embroiling her pupils in possible “illegal” activity A teacher in Austin, Texas has lashed out against the open-source Linux operating system, punishing one of her students for demonstrating and handing out copies of the HeliOS Linux distribution and writing an email to the distributor claiming the software may be illegal. [...]

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