Evolution is punctuated equilibria   30 Jul 2008 10:21 GMT
Guest editorial by Dino Dai Zovi In evolutionary biology, the theory of punctuated equilibiria states that evolution is not a gradual process but instead consists of long periods of stasis interrupted by rapid, catastrophic change.  This is supported by fossil evidence that shows...
Source: ZDNet

News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA   30 Jul 2008 08:59 GMT
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori' What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 'Mojave Experiment' - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it...
Source: ZDNet

Fortify warns of configuration weaknesses in SOA deployments   29 Jul 2008 15:22 GMT
Security code review specialists Fortify Software has issued a warning about major configuration weaknesses affecting SOA service oriented architecture deployments from IBM, Microsoft and Apache. According to Fortify, certain configurations of Apache Axis, Apache Axis 2, IBM WebSphere 6.1, Microsoft .NET Web Services Enhancements WSE 2.0 and...
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The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit   29 Jul 2008 14:27 GMT
The end of the Neosploit web malware exploitation kit? RSA's FraudAction Research Labs recent monitoring of ongoing communications between Neosploit team members and their potential customers indicates so. The Neosploit malware kit has been around since the middle of 2007, with prices varying between $1000 and $3000, whose main differentiation...
Source: ZDNet

Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack   29 Jul 2008 14:02 GMT
Graham Tibbetts of the UK Telegraph is reporting that the British Foreign Office has admitted to losing around 3,000 passports and visa stickers, which were stolen on their way from Manchester to RAF Northolt in London, where they were to be sent to British embassies.  From the article: Officials...
Source: ZDNet

Neosploit exploit kit shutters operations?   29 Jul 2008 12:19 GMT
The distributors of Neosploit, one of the more dangerous drive-by download exploit kits on the Internet, have shut down operations because of financial problems, according to malware researchers at RSA FraudAction Research Labs. In a blog entry, the company said it found evidence that Neosploit will no...
Source: ZDNet

Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet   29 Jul 2008 10:36 GMT
Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...
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Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal   29 Jul 2008 05:15 GMT
Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
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Image gallery: Norton Internet Security 2009 beta   29 Jul 2008 04:10 GMT
NIS 2009 has undergone a major overhaul in an effort to reduce memory usage, enhance performance and provide a new level of safety.

Source: Computerworld

Norton Internet Security 2009 beta hits the accelerator   29 Jul 2008 04:10 GMT
NIS 2009 has undergone a major overhaul in an attempt to reduce memory usage, enhance performance and provide a new level of safety.

Source: Computerworld