IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

CAE guy writes "The Boston Globe is carrying an AP report which begins: 'A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place:

Jack Spine writes "VeriSign has said that the main obstacle to DNSSEC implementation has been technical delays.

Jack Spine writes "VeriSign has said that the main obstacle to DNSSEC implementation has been technical delays.

QuesarVII writes "Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes have discovered a severe security flaw in all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels since 2001 on all architectures.

Well, yet another teenage hacker who "did the right thing" by reporting a security flaw is being punished for his actions.

r writes "The New York Times reports on a security flaw discovered in the new Android phones.

Paul sends us word on a new exploit seen in the wild that attacks Windows systems completely outside of the control of the OS.

deleuth writes "The de facto online connectivity software sold along with many Apple computers, .Mac, has a Web interface through which users can check their 'iDisk' while away from their own computer

First, Gypsy2012 writes with a highly critical security flaw involving both Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer, which could allow a malicious attacker to gain remote control of a user's system.