Paul Mah

According to Ars Technica, new laws go into effect in the United Kingdom that make it a crime to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data requested as part of a police investigation.

Networking pioneer 3Com, the dominant player prior to being supplanted by Cisco Systems, has been acquired by a private equity firm in a $2.2 billion cash deal.

Yahoo has issued a security update for Yahoo Messenger. This latest update fixes the nasty Webcam flaw, which apparently results in a denial-of-service attack, as well as potentially allowing the introduction of a remote exploit. Yahoo Messenger client downloaded before August 21st, 2007 is vulnerable to these issues. As mentioned in a previous post about …

Its official: The next version of Flash Player will feature the H.264 video codec. Known as MPEG4 Part10, H.264 is a video standard yielding a much greater compression than its predecessors. Excerpt from The Register: Such is the reduction in bandwidth that it’s possible to increase the quality while reducing the bandwidth requirement by an …

Close to a year after Google’s acquisition of YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion, Google has announced that testing of a new advertising format for YouTube has begun with a small number of advertisers. So, there you have it! Google is finally attempting to cash in on the 130 million YouTube subscribers after all. And …

 Sourcefire has announced its acquisition of the open-source ClamAV gateway antivirus and antimalware project. It appears that the deal includes all related trademarks and copyrights held by the five principal members of the open-source AV team, including project founder Tomasz Kojm. Subscribe to the Cybersecurity Insider Newsletter Strengthen your organization’s IT security defenses by keeping …

VIA Technologies has announced a new addition to its Eden ultra-low voltage processor lineup at a press conference on August 16, 2007. According to the DIGITIMES, it will come toting the 21mm x 21mm nanoBGA2 packaging like other Eden models and utilizes the typical VIA V4 bus. Under the hood however, it will run at …

Microsoft is currently working with AMD to fix a bug in an ATI driver that ships preinstalled on millions of laptops. In effect, this bug leaves the kernel of Vista wide open via the loading of unsigned drivers. If you recall, we mentioned earlier this month about the glaring loophole in the requirement for signed …

It appears that the folks over at the Chicago usability consultancy User Centric decided to do a test of the iPhone’s touch interface. Apparently, they got a group of 20 experienced users who all send at least 15 messages a week to see how they would adapt to the iPhone keyboard. Half of them own …

According to various sources, Dell may introduce consumer PCs running both Windows and Linux together on the same hardware using virtualization. Says Dell Chief Technology Officer Kevin Kettler: Virtualization is very powerful. It’s an environment that would allow many different operating systems to coexist. You can interpret that however you would like. Subscribe to the …

The Treonauts have posted a piece on the recently released screenshots of the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) unveiled in time for the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. According to them, a Treo running this new OS is anticipated at the beginning of 2008. As it is, the screenshots help give a pretty good idea as …

According to researchers with iSEC Partners, forensics software that are commonly used by the police, as well as enterprise security personnel, is not as secure as it should be. iSEC Partners has spent the past six months investigating two forensic investigation programs: Guidance Software’s EnCase and as an open-source product called The Sleuth Kit. Subscribe …