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 [...]
ACT Statement on Microsoft Decision to Support ODF and PDF in Upcoming Versions of Microsoft Office Today, Microsoft announced that it will natively support the Open Document Format (ODF) and Adobe System’s PDF format in Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, which will be delivered in the first half of [...]
CNetNews.com has a great interview on “the constant search for disruption” with Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, California. AP reports that “Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative [...]