Open Systems Journal

Last month (Day 9 of Cyber Security Awareness Month) we discussed a Man in the Middle (MITM) attack against RDP (Microsofts Remote Desktop Protocol), along with Man in the Middle protections for RDP services. The article and video illustrate the just how easy it is to mount a man in the middle attack using ARP [...]

Over the summer we discovered that Apple’s newly redesigned MacBook Pro offered battery life to die for. Approaching 8 hours of battery life on a single charge we were curious to see how the rest of the lineup fared. We won’t see any new MacBook Pros until 2010, so if you’re buying a [...]

Adobe has shipped a patch to cover a security vulnerability affecting its Photoshop Elements software product.

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Windows/Mac/Linux: Less than two weeks after they released the first beta, Mozilla is back with Firefox 3.6 beta 2. This release includes over 190 bug fixes from beta 1, in addition to the already existing performance boosts and support for one-click themes.
You can grab the latest straight from the Firefox beta page; if you’re already [...]

Samsung’s 46-inch 7000 television sets the bar for slim and bright, plus it draws less power because the usual fluorescent backlight has been subbed out for LEDs along the panel’s edges. Almost as nice: Yahoo Widgets deliver sports scores, photos, and more.

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Grand jury indicts defendants accused of hacking into RBS WorldPay network and running “one of the most sophisticated computer hacking rings in the world.”
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A commercial provider of multi-platform spying applications has recently ported its main product to the Android mobile OS.

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Recently I was talking with a friend about the need to apply the Cumulative Updates (CU) to SQL Server instances. This individual thought that they needed to apply every CU to an instance, and was spending way too much time applying updates each time a new installation was performed.
I had to explain that the CUs [...]

AP - Microsoft’s newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.,Microsoft’s monthly security fixes spare Windows 7
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A species of worm that has no mouth or anus and lives entirely in whale carcasses may have more crazy uncles than previously known.

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