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SP2's data execution protection cracked
News The SP2 measure, known as Data Execution Protection, is intended to prevent would-be attackers from inserting rogue code into a PC's memory and tricking Windows into running the program. A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a...
[January 31, 2005, 8:30]
The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 7: The Execution Approach for the Data Quality Analysis Pattern in SOA
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate to an architect community the execution approach of detailed data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. This paper focuses on the implementation of data quality analysis regardless of the...
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
SP2's data execution protection cracked
Talkback Hey, Billy! A lot of bugs and holes in your Windows and in your head. Our best regards from Russia once again!
[January 31, 2005, 14:51]
Microsoft denies data execution problem
News Last week, Positive reported that the Data Execution Protection tools included in Service Pack 2 -- code intended to prevent would-be attackers from inserting malicious programs into a PC's memory -- opened Windows XP systems up to additional...
[February 2, 2005, 8:50]
Data Visualization Helps Traders Achieve Best Execution in Today's Ultra-Fast Moving Markets
White Papers Most importantly, they allow business users to monitor, analyze and act on their essential business data. Advanced visualization software platforms have emerged in recent years as solutions to the "Needle in the haystack" problem.
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
Exploiting Functional Decomposition for Efficient Parallel Processing of Multiple Data Analysis Queries
White Papers This paper examines functional decomposition for improving data reuse, and therefore overall query execution performance, in the context of data analysis applications. Additionally, the paper looks at the performance effects of using various...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Address-Value Delta (AVD) Prediction: Increasing the Effectiveness of Runahead Execution by Exploiting Regular Memory Allocation Patterns
White Papers If such a load instruction incurs a long-latency cache miss during runahead execution, its data value is predicted by subtracting the stable delta from its effective address. While runahead execution is effective at parallelizing independent long...
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Goldilocks: A Race and Transaction-Aware Java Runtime
White Papers In addition to causing data corruption and leading programs to crash, the presence of data races complicates the semantics of an execution which might no longer be sequentially consistent. Second, if no DataRaceException is thrown in an execution...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
Damia - A Data Mashup Fabric for Intranet Applications
White Papers It consists of a browser-based user-interface that allows for the specification of data mashups as data flow graphs using a set of operators, a server with an execution engine, as well as APIs for searching, debugging, executing and managing mashups.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center
White Papers Proper execution of the commissioning process is a critical step in determining how the data center operates as an integrated system. This paper outlines the ten most common errors that prevent successful execution of the commissioning process.
[October 1, 2009, 9:30]
Supporting Provenance in Service-Oriented Computing Using the Semantic Web Technologies
White Papers A Semantic Web Service (SWS) based, hybrid approach is proposed for the creation and management of augmented provenance in which semantic annotation is used to generate semantic provenance data and the database management system is used for...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
The Day Ahead: Broadwing flies under the radar
News Osha said Broadwing plans to make its name through execution. Broadwing's pitch revolves around execution. The market will value them more because they're focused on execution. Corvis' equipment by all counts lives up to its advance billing...
[November 8, 2000, 13:00]
Task switching with RTOS
News An RTOS can switch between multiple tasks, or threads of execution, so it appears that the tasks are running concurrently. Although the processor can execute only one task at a time, RTOS task switching gives the illusion of concurrent execution.
[September 3, 2002, 14:58]
Benchmark wars
News Buffering up data rows -- By preloading the data into the RAM buffers, database can access the information thousands of times faster then a disk I/O access.Storing SQL execution plans in RAM -- By preparsing and precomputing the execution plans...
[August 9, 2002, 19:33]
Microsoft Exchange Patch
Talkback MS09-003 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution ) should also be looked at carefully. The remote-code-execution vulnerability would allow any anonymous user to take full control over the exchange server and the...
[February 16, 2009, 12:53]
Microsoft issues six 'critical', two 'important' patches
News Entitled 'Vulnerabilities in Visual Basic 6.0 runtime extended files (ActiveX controls) could allow remote code execution (932349)', this bulletin affects the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime extended files; all supported editions of Visual Studio .Net...
[December 10, 2008, 13:37]
Java: Not just for the server anymore?
News Other problem areas, according to Evans Data's survey results, include a lack of support for "real-time processing," where a processor executes instructions as they come in instead of scheduling them for execution later when an execution queue fills.
[September 15, 2002, 20:02]
Microsoft: Patch now or turn off Bluetooth
News Microsoft says the vulnerability "could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file. The MS08-031 cumulative patch fixes a couple of vulnerabilities, including one that could allow remote code execution if a user...
[June 11, 2008, 12:34]
IDF: McKinley to be twice as fast as Merced, says Intel
News The added speed is due to the McKinley core running at 1GHz, up from Merced's 800MHz, as well as a higher front-side bus frequency, more execution units and faster memory cache. Those figures are based on server processes, which are unpredictable...
[August 29, 2001, 11:24]
Google denies disassembling Vista code for Chrome
News The Chrome source code said a particular security feature available on Vista, Data Execution Prevention, can be used on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, though it's not documented for the older operating systems.
[September 22, 2008, 8:36]
