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Windows To Get 'flight Data Recorder'
News In the consumer environment, you will be presented with a dialogue [box] that clearly gives you the choice whether to share the information and then also provides exactly what the detail is so you can parse character by character what's being sent.
[April 27, 2005, 9:00]
Symantec Download Makes PCs Vulnerable To Attack
News However, the threat is lessened by the fact that a dialogue box should pop up under the default Internet Explorer settings, asking if the user wants to download the ActiveX component, Wysopal said. The dialogue box will state that the control is...
[June 25, 2003, 9:07]
Firefox Spoofing Flaw Reported
News Aviv Raff reported on his blog on Wednesday that Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.11 allows information presented in a basic authentication dialogue box to be spoofed, opening up the possibility of users being redirected to a malicious website.
[January 4, 2008, 12:51]
Microsoft And Kodak Settle XP Dispute
News We will be able to bypass the dialogue box and go directly to our software when our cameras are connected. Kodak's criticism appears to have been quelled by Microsoft changing one dialogue box affecting how Windows XP handles imaging devices, such...
[August 13, 2001, 9:23]
Dialogue Box: Lifting Technology's Skirt
Articles Slipping slyly behind the back of the latest industry headlines, while slapping established thinking firmly around its chubby face, Dialogue Box asks the questions that need asking — and some that don't.
[October 15, 2007, 11:30]
New Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Exposed
News According to the advisory, a malicious Web site could prompt all its visitors with a standard grey dialogue box welcoming a user to the site before allowing access to the site's content. If a user clicks on the welcome box they could unknowingly...
[November 22, 2004, 11:50]
Pop-up Phishing Flaw Found In Major Browsers
News The malicious site would then open a JavaScript dialogue box in front of the trusted Web site, and a user might then be fooled into sending personal information back to the malicious site. The problem is that JavaScript dialog boxes do not display...
[June 22, 2005, 14:15]
Ten Tips For Making The Most Of Google Mail
News Both of these functions can be accessed from the Mail Settings dialogue page. In the Search Options dialogue you can specify the usual search parameters like From or To a certain address, email with a particular subject line, and even designate...
[November 21, 2005, 16:20]
Microsoft To Users: Patch IE Now!
News The second security breach can involve a flaw related to how file names are displayed in the "file download" dialogue box. A hacker could misrepresent the name of a file in the dialogue window when a person tries to download a file.
[December 17, 2001, 8:41]
Office XP Hole Compromises Personal Data
News The CIAC bulletin states that the Error Reporting function is configured to "automatically" send debugging information to Microsoft, and claims that the relevant dialogue box does not make it obvious that the contents of the document being edited...
[October 18, 2001, 17:07]
For Arthur C Clarke: Out Of The Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting.
Blog Or decent dialogue, but you can get that by the yard from the navel-gazing mainstream. So it is fitting that Clarke's best memorial is a small, drum-shaped box containing the finest technology of the mid-60s could produce, mutely orbiting 22,300...
[March 19, 2008, 0:39]
Greeting Card Virus Brings Bad Tidings
News A dialogue box says the program is necessary to view the e-card. The power of a button-click to transform a virus into a legal -- albeit questionable -- program has some attorneys worried that future Internet attackers could get protection using...
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
Banned Napster Users Strike Back
News Sure enough, when Dennis clicked into Napster on Wednesday, a dialogue box popped up to say the Napster Beta 6 upgrade was being loaded onto his computer. Napster announced Wednesday that it was preventing access to users identified by the heavy...
[May 12, 2000, 8:58]
Hollywood's War On Open Source
News Among his plans: to make a voice-activated system that lets users scan a DVD movie to find a certain line of dialogue, like the part in Sudden Impact when Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan sneers, "Go ahead, make my day.
[February 28, 2000, 9:05]
Allow Your Users To Use GALMOD32 To Change Their Own GAL Details
News When they execute the tool, they will get a dialogue box where they can make changes to their account information. Select the special account Self (type "Self" into the "Enter object names to select box").
[May 5, 2006, 15:05]
Platform-hopping Virus Poses New Threat
News On Windows systems, it opens a dialogue box with the author's name and the name of the virus, and it's programmed to do this only twice, on 17 March and 17 September. A new virus called Simile.D may not be much of a threat to computer systems, but...
[June 5, 2002, 14:39]
Researchers Warn Of 'clickjacking' Threat
News Clickjacking is a set of different techniques for disguising elements such as dialogue boxes and links, so that the user can be fooled into changing security settings or visiting malicious websites, Grossman and Hansen said.
[October 9, 2008, 13:22]
Why SSD Makers Don't Talk SSDs Up
Blog Finding the right solution is crucial: SSDs hold the promise of reliable storage (though as we demonstrated in Dialogue Box last year, they do have a peculiar reaction when exposed to radioactivity. If the manufacturers get it right there is a lot...
[March 6, 2008, 15:32]
MS Issues Outlook Security Patch
News In addition, whenever another program attempts to access the Outlook address book, the patched version of Outlook will prompt users with a warning dialogue box. That patch, created in response to the Melissa virus, required users to save certain...
[June 9, 2000, 8:28]
Bluefi? Witooth? WiFi And Bluetooth Are Getting Together
Blog Earlier this week, Charles McLellan and I popped over to see wireless and network chip maker Broadcom, to film some 802.11n fun for Dialogue Box. If handled well, this could be one of those convergences that creates whole new markets.
[December 6, 2007, 13:40]
