Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation. Or… Shatter Attacks – How to break Windows. By Foon – ivegotta [at] tombom.co [dot] uk http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html Introduction This paper presents a new generation of...
Thanks to everyone who attended the FOIB party tonight in Vancouver. For those who didn’t, you missed a good one and we’ll see you next year. As for me, I’m very tipsy, and happy to see so many friends meeting each other, talking, and sharing ideas....
RealNames is the company that attempted to usurp DNS by embedding their keyword mapping tool into Microsoft Internet Explorer, and of course selling those keywords (as does AOL) to unfortunate web site owners who couldn’t afford the prices EJW wanted to charge...
http://www.idokorro.com/products.html If you are like most IT managers you must provide 24/7 support of networks and servers, including mission critical applications. Downtime as a result of server issues or failure can occur at any time and critical applications are...
…just so you don’t think I wasn’t paying attention. This is a pretty big deal considering the environment. It prevents PWC Consulting from having to IPO in order to raise operating capital to meet its independence requirements from PWC LLC, the...
Dead Cell Zones: Hold On, I’m Losing You http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/cyberguy/stv-news- cyberguy-071902-1.htmlstory Nothing’s more frustrating than needing to use your cell phone and not having a signal. How can they be fixed? Dead zones. They’re the...
A Sudden Rush to Declare Bankruptcy Is Expected http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/27/business/27BANK.html By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON, July 26 The compromise bill, which was approved on Thursday by Congressional negotiators and is expected to be adopted in both the House...
Let’s imagine it’s 1999. You’re the CEO of the world’s largest media conglomerate, happily leeching money from your cable news network, your britney spears sound-alike franchise, and a few dozen feature films (among other things) and turning a...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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