Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI Dynamics, which discovered the security hole. The buffer-overflow vulnerabilities could enable an attacker to circumvent Windows security and gain administrative ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you're looking for a way to opt out of 64-bit Windows, you can stop right here. Windows XP Professional x64 is not going to knock your socks off. At least, not right away, and not unless you're running apps that can take advantage of it.But in the very next ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Contrary to popular wisdom, Windows appears to be more secure than a popular version of Linux, according to an upcoming report from two security researchers. The researchers found that Windows Server 2003 actually had fewer security vulnerabilities identified last year than Linux and that the holes in Windows took less ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
You know that feeling you get when your friends or family see you do something on your computer that they've never seen before?
If you haven't had this opportunity, here's where you start.
If you have, then you know that you're feeling like the world's coolest power-user when this happens. Knowledge is ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
With security experts predicting a large-scale worm attack is only a matter of days away, Microsoft has released a scanning tool to help users identify vulnerable versions of the GDI libraries that handle JPEG processing.
The Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool (available for download here) helps detect the presence of non-Windows Microsoft ...
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