DOMAIN OWNERS will be able to certify themselves under changes rung in by the DNS Security Extensions system (DNSSec) that is expected to be the biggest upgrade to the Internet since the World Wide Web was introduced, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).
Self certification ensures that a web page really, [...]
For many enterprises, SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) software is mission-critical. But according to Mariano Nunez Di Croce, a security researcher from Argentinean research vendor Onapsis, SAP software is at risk even when users properly follow all of the company’s security guidelines.
In a talk here at the Black Hat security conference, Di Croce argued that SAP deployments [...]
The winners of the 2010 Pwnie Awards were announced yesterday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. There were only seven categories this year and one of the most popular awards, the â??Most Epic FAILâ? one, went to Internet Explorer 8 for a bug in its XSS protection component, which actually enabled XSS [...]
In a follow-up to his original review, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal continued to laud Apple’s iPhone 4 as "the best device in its class," while warning of issues with weak reception and dropped calls.
After 6 weeks of constant use with two iPhone 4 units, Mossberg found that in areas with "average or [...]
Nature – and the news media, it seems – abhors a vacuum. That could explain the recent uproar over a talk by Dimitar Sasselov, a member of the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope’s science team.
Kepler launched in March 2009 and has been hard at work staring at the same patch of sky in search of characteristic [...]
Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn’t sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested.
Reader Clint discovered that all you had to do is use something like Peer Block, which grabs [...]
The Motorola Droid 2 is all but official at this point. We have seen numerous rumors indicating an August launch, and today, the entire user guide for the Droid successor has been leaked online. The 70 page report doesnâ??t reveal any earth shattering features, but does confirm Android 2.2 and a MotoBlur Skin [...]
Research in Motion, the creator of the widely used enterprise-come-consumer BlackBerry device, has an uncertain position in India.
The Indian governmentâ??s internal security and intelligence services cannot break the encryption of the device, which makes countering terror threats and national security matters difficult – especially for a region which faces constant threats and attacks from domestic [...]
Black Hat is a technical security conference, which brings together thousands of industry researchers, professionals and journalists every year in Las Vegas. Black Hat and its sister conference DEF CON, are widely viewed as the top security events and hacker gatherings in the world.
At this years Black Hat USA edition, the organizers are providing a [...]