Day: August 26, 2013

$199 game consoles aren’t worth the money you’re saving

Sony and Microsoft both offer stripped-down current-gen consoles for $199, but spending just a little more really can pay off…….


VMworld 2013: Striking a balance between long-term goals, current realities for enterprise IT

Is the data center dead, or long live data center? Those are the sentiments being debated among developers and executives alike at VMworld 2013 this week…….


Only One US City Makes Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide List

An anonymous reader writes “A new report today has ranked the Top 10 ‘Internet Cities’ around the globe, based on a set of five criteria: connection speed, availability of citywide WiFi, openness to innovation, support of public data, and security/data privacy. One might expect high-tech cities like San Francisco and Tel Aviv to appear on…


Cryptome suffers brief take-down over Japanese ‘terror’ files

Bitten by attack dog, just a flesh wound……


Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates parting ways

Ballmer gets the blame for the company’s recent lackluster stock performance and assorted product misses, and so should the Chairman and rest of Microsoft’s board of directors…….


A rush of free advice for Microsoft…

Ditch consumer markets is good advice…….


Oz retailers crying wolf over incomplete data

ABS says six billions dollars’ worth of……


Cisco Ironport Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting

Cisco IronPort Security Management Appliance M170 version 7.9.1-030 suffers from cross site scripting and cross site request forgery vulnerabilities…….


CM3 AcoraCMS XSS / CSRF / Redirection / Disclosure

CM3 AcoraCMS versions 6.0.6/1a, 6.0.2/1a, 5.5.7/12b, and 5.5.0/1b-p1 suffer from cross site request forgery, cross site scripting, information disclosure, weak cookies, and URL redirection vulnerabilities…….


Galileo: Right On the Solar System, Wrong On Ice

carmendrahl writes “Famed astronomer Galileo Galilei is best known for taking on the Catholic Church by championing the idea that the Earth moves around the sun. But he also engaged in a debate with a philosopher about why ice floats on water. While his primary arguments were correct, he went too far, belittling legitimate, contradictory…