Steve Gillmore expounds on RSS and critisizm of his view that RSS has reached a “tipping point:”
The emancipation of Web authoring has already democratized information publishing. In turn, RSS provides a mechanism to liberate the other end of the pub sub collaboration. When subscribers can harness the aggregated authority of the feeds and items they [...]
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VeriSign Issues Alert on Massive New Worm Targetting SSL Servers“At this point, we can report that we are seeing a statistical deviation in normal traffic patterns, and we have identified multiple exploits in the wild,” said Karen McGuirk, media relations specialist for VeriSign. “Although these exploits have not materialized into a worm, with the information [...]
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CNet reports:
The number of “phishing” e-mails circulating on the Web has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months, according to e-mail security company MessageLabs.
This is a scary technology:
According to the APWG’s Web site, the new attack targeted Citibank customers at the end of March. “This sophisticated new attack automatically detects the [...]
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Mary Jo Foley reports about vulnerability rumors:
Rumors are swirling about possible “super exploits” that could target several of the Windows vulnerabilities unveiled by Microsoft last week. The Internet Storm Center at The SANS Institute have issued a warning.
Eweek sez:
The four patches were included in Microsoft’s monthly scheduled release of patches for security problems and addressed [...]
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Last week’s fixes from Microsoft has prompted a lot of critisism. There is also a report to be released by Foundstone that compares the vulnerability of Windows to Linux:
While Microsoft last week had a lot of explaining to do, anyone who thinks its operating systems are worse in terms of vulnerabilities than say, Linux, is [...]
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