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Private browsing tools still leave data trail

...attackers' in a paper that is due to be presented at the Usenix security conference (PDF) on Wednesday. Local attackers can access the DNS resolution... Read more

9 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Children's toy can jam FBI radios, researchers say

...Blaze, who co-authored the paper that will be presented at the Usenix Security symposium in San Francisco. "It's going to be someone somewhere... Read more

10 August, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Flash disks lack secure deletion, researchers find

...from Flash-Based Solid State Drives (PDF) delivered on Wednesday at the USENIX file and storage technologies (Fast) conference in San Jose. "The complexity of... Read more

21 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Report: Some Android apps leak user data

...Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones. The paper will be presented at the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation in Vancouver, Canada, on 4... Read more

30 September, 2010

Crypto flaw allows email shenanigans

...at Web application firm Curl, who will present his findings at the USENIX Technical Conference in Boston. The flaw, which has been well known in... Read more

27 June, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Using Windows Is Like...

A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there... Read more

7 November, 2009

Schneier research team cracks TrueCrypt

Security expert Bruce Schneier says standard software such as Vista interferes with deniable file systems, designed to hide data on users' systems Read more

17 July, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

Web users ignoring security certificate warnings

...researchers, who plan to present their findings on 14 August at the Usenix Security Symposium in Montreal, found over the course of two experiments that... Read more

27 July, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle

...its thinking. Wang plans to present a paper on Gazelle at the Usenix security conference next month, and last week Microsoft posted an article on... Read more

8 July, 2009 by Ina Fried

New Slackware Linux Release Available

...something with Slackware it brings back a lot of memories... going to Usenix conferences 10+ years ago, and bringing Slackware CDs back with me... my... Read more

16 December, 2008
Disk encryption 'no silver bullet'

Disk encryption 'no silver bullet'

...said in presenting a paper on a 'cold-boot attack' at the Usenix security conference on Wednesday. In a new type of attack that requires... Read more

31 July, 2008 by Elinor Mills

Lost laptops get open-source rescue service

...its security and privacy properties in a research paper at the 2008 Usenix Security Symposium this weekend in San Jose, California. The two main differences... Read more

30 July, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

Researchers redefine the internet blacklist

...blacklist, a tool for blocking internet attacks. At next week's 17th Usenix Security Symposium, researchers from the Sans Institute and SRI International will present... Read more

25 July, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

UK LinuxWorld show postponed until spring

...takes place on 4 to 6 September in Cambridge, sponsored by the Usenix group and vendors including IBM, NetApp, HP, Oracle, Google, Intel, Dell, EMC... Read more

31 August, 2007 by Peter Judge

Saving the world one file format at a time

...scientist at data security company Verdasys. He is past president of the Usenix computing systems association Read more

29 November, 2005 by Daniel Geer

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

29 minutes ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

1 hour ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

5 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

12 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

15 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

17 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

17 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

18 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

20 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

21 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

22 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

23 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

1 day ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

1 day ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

1 day ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths