US Report: MS breaks silence on NT5
News That's according to the almost three-hour NT 5.0 status report that Microsoft officials presented to a few hundred Unix and NT researchers attending the second annual Usenix NT Symposium in Seattle yesterday.
[August 6, 1998, 11:15]
UK LinuxWorld show postponed until spring
News The Linux Kernel Developers Summit 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, and SGI. Also part of next week's Linux activities in Cambridge...
[August 31, 2007, 15:09]
Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) - Configuration Tips
Blog Comment Regarding finding a repository with good speed, I recall a Usenix conference, many years ago, where we sang a song to the tune of "I am Mr. @ator1940 - Thanks. Ed.with words like: A host is a host, from coast to coast and no one will talk to a host...
[November 3, 2008, 8:46]
Unraveling Web Malware
White Papers In a paper presented at USENIX 2007, Provoset al determined that approximately 9% of all suspicious web sites launched drive-by downloads of malware binaries. Security researchers and IT administrators have recently witnessed a rapid rise in the...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
EFF files free speech lawsuit against record labels
News We feel threatened under the DMCA," said Avi Rubin, a USENIX board member, explaining his group's decision to join the suit. In addition to Felten, USENIX , which is sponsoring the August conference, is also a plaintiff in the suit.
[June 7, 2001, 8:32]
Using Windows Is Like...
Blog A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there was a "quiz" passed around. I'm going to update one of the questions I remember from that, because it is absolutely perfect for what I just went through.
[November 9, 2009, 10:08]
MS Palladium: A must or a menace?
News At the USENIX Security Conference held in San Francisco recently, Microsoft developers touted the company's upcoming Palladium architecture as technology that would enhance privacy, stymie piracy and increase a corporation's control over its...
[November 8, 2002, 8:05]
Researchers redefine the internet blacklist
News At next week's 17th Usenix Security Symposium, researchers from the Sans Institute and SRI International will present the results of their experiments with 'highly predictive blacklisting' (HPB), a service that tailors blacklists for particular...
[July 25, 2008, 16:03]
Web users ignoring security certificate warnings
News The 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 certificate warnings were ineffectual. Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not...
[July 27, 2009, 16:38]
Worms dodge Internet sensors
News In a pair of papers presented at the Usenix Security Symposium in Baltimore, US on Thursday, computer scientists said would-be attackers can locate such sensors, which act as trip wires that detect unusual activity.
[August 5, 2005, 10:45]
Disk encryption 'no silver bullet'
News Disk encryption, which people rely on for protecting sensitive data on laptops, can fairly easily be foiled, security researchers said in presenting a paper on a 'cold-boot attack' at the Usenix security conference on Wednesday.
[July 31, 2008, 9:25]
Compaq iPaq plunges into Inferno
News The port of the operating system -- which can also be run as an application on platforms including Windows, Linux and Solaris -- will be demonstrated at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference 2001 in Boston, Massachusetts, on Thursday and Friday.
[June 28, 2001, 12:47]
Researchers weigh publication, prosecution
News Felten, who earlier this year was threatened with legal action by the Recording Industry Association of America if he gave a speech on cracking digital watermarks, proceeded with his presentation at the USENIX 2001 Security Symposium after...
[August 16, 2001, 9:20]
Lost laptops get open-source rescue service
News The four researchers behind Adonea, named after the Roman goddess of safe returns, will publish the details of the foundations of their design and an analysis of its security and privacy properties in a research paper at the 2008 Usenix Security...
[July 30, 2008, 17:09]
Itanium trips up unwary designers
News In "Itanium —A System Implementor's Tale", a paper to be presented at the Usenix 05 conference next week, four researchers from the University of New South Wales, and one from HP's Palo Alto labs, report on their experience of making Itanium fly.
[April 7, 2005, 11:00]
Crypto flaw allows email shenanigans
News The recipient is liable to assume that encryption security guarantees that no one but the sender has seen the mail, but encryption experts know that isn't true," said Don Davis, corporate architect for security at Web application firm Curl, who...
[June 27, 2001, 10:15]
Slammer: The first 'Warhol' worm?
News Researchers have theorised about such worms for some time, and a paper presented at last year's Usenix Security Symposium by security experts Vern Paxson, Stuart Staniford, and Nicholas Weaver also predicted the emergence of a "flash worm", which...
[February 3, 2003, 16:12]
Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle
News Wang plans to present a paper on Gazelle at the Usenix security conference next month, and last week Microsoft posted an article on its website explaining more about Gazelle. Many people think the browser is starting to replace the operating system...
[July 8, 2009, 16:01]
New Slackware Linux Release Available
Blog Every time I do 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 goodness! The Slackware Linux Project has released their version 12.2 distribution.
[December 16, 2008, 12:27]
