Open Systems Journal

According to VUPEN security:
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a dangling pointer in the Microsoft HTML Viewer (mshtml.dll) when retrieving certain CSS/STYLE objects via the getElementsByTagName() method, which could allow attackers to crash an affected browser [...]

Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready for Your Testing (All Platforms)If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment.
Office 2010 Professional Beta Available for Download (Windows)Wanna give Office 2010’s [...]

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For most of my career I’ve worked alone as a DBA. It’s been rare for me to work for a company that has more than one DBA around to manage the databases. When you are the only DBA, you tend to have a great handle on your environment because it’s usually small, and because you [...]

Shoppers and retailers aren’t the only ones gearing up for the holidays. Criminals are out in full force with plenty of scams to separate you and your money

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Phenom II overclocking and Fermi Tesla GPUs
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It’s easy to forget about your body’s needs when you’re deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades.
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10. Elevate your laptop to eye level
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angry tapir writes “Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense [...]

The VMware patch mentioned in the oneliner raises an interesting question. What is making you vulnerable? The notification in this case is very careful to explicitly state that the security vulnerabilities are in the thirdparty products used within the solution provided by the vendor. If you have a look at the issues being addressed you [...]

Hybrid approach wins out
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