The International Herald Tribune reveals that “[h]aving nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, the popular online hangout Facebook is about to undergo a housecleaning. Visitors who cannot stand the clutter that has been piling up will be glad to see that the [...]
Those of us who thought maybe Free Software was all about love and peace and breaking with the "tyranny" of copyright and other intellectual property might have been surprised by four recent heavily publicized lawsuits filed by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of BusyBox, a lightweight set [...]
The Register reveals that “[a] new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack.” The [...]
SFGate.com reveals that “[m]any Californians don't understand how businesses are using and selling their personal information, according to a report released today by the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley. The survey found that people tend to assume their information is protected from being sold when [...]
By Nora von Ingersleben and Braden Cox The United States currently faces the worst financial crunch and crisis since the Great Depression. Thanks to the sub-prime mortgage disaster, banks have incurred billions of dollars of losses. Write-downs, combined with the opaqueness of complex financial instruments and the decline in net [...]