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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
