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Service Identification In TCP/IP: Well-Known Versus Random Port Numbers
White Papers The sixteen-bit well-known port number is often overlooked as a network identifier in Internet communications. Several unintended uses of the port number evolved from associating services with a list of well-known port numbers.
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Copyright Act Gags Programmers
News Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. When they started to arrest people and threaten researchers, I decided the...
[September 7, 2001, 9:04]
A Year Ago: Softseek Infect Users With Netbus Trojan
News "Windows security program" WinSec carries the well-known back door Trojan, Net Bus 170 W95. Within the alert, PCHelp alleges that "Windows security program" WinSec, supposed to enable administrators to restrict user access to different Windows...
[October 8, 2000, 7:07]
Other Firms Evaluating Processor IDs
News "The technology to do it is well known," said Keith Diefendorff, industry analyst with microprocessor technology watcher MicroDesign Resources Inc. That's close to the number of particles in the known universe," joked Pat Gelsinger, vice president...
[January 25, 1999, 16:48]
DirectX Attack Expected - Patch Windows Now
Talkback Simply disable well known Microsoft ports and well known Microsoft mail and browser programs and that's the end of many security hazards. Not all unpatched computers got infected. Past, present and future.
[August 22, 2003, 22:10]
Crypto Flaw Allows Email Shenanigans
News Common encryption standards that allow users to digitally sign their email have a well-known flaw that could allow the message to be surreptitiously forwarded to another person, a researcher plans to announce on Thursday at a technical conference.
[June 27, 2001, 10:15]
CIA Starts 'fun' High-tech Fund
News The CIA is opening a venture capital business targeting emerging technologies -- and has hired a well-known Silicon Valley executive to run the operation. Louie, well known for developing the Falcon air-combat simulator video game, said he always...
[September 30, 1999, 10:08]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News The Bugbear/Tanatos mass-mailing worm takes advantage of a vulnerability so well known that Microsoft released a patch to fix it a year ago. Once it installs itself on one PC, it can spread through network connections as well as email messages.
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Bandwidth And Power Efficiency Considerations For Optimal Training In OFDM
White Papers Pilot Tone Assisted Modulation (PTAM) is a well known technique to estimate the Channel State Information (CSI) in OFDM but is not bandwidth efficient. It is well known that OFDM signals have high Peak-to-Average Power ratios (PARs) and are thus...
[August 7, 2008, 1:18]
The Home Depot Chooses IBM For Enhanced E-business Infrastructure
White Papers Home Depot is widely known and admired because of its legendary focus on customer service and employee well-being, and they're known as visionaries in harnessing technology to achieve those goals. It also has chosen IBM VisualAge Enterprise Suite...
[July 12, 2007, 4:09]
Intel Launches Penryn Chips
News The company said some of its partners set world records for scores on well-known benchmarks, such as TPC-C and SPECint_rate2006, with the basic Xeon chips. Just a few months after the launch of AMD's quad-core Barcelona chips, Intel is hitting back...
[November 12, 2007, 7:36]
Microsoft: Stay Connected All The Time
News Microsoft, the company best known for its operating system and productivity software -- as well as its legal wrangling with the US government -- is presenting a new side of itself to customers at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.
[January 7, 2000, 14:36]
Businesses Face New Breed Of Security Threats
News The key security threats facing businesses range from mutations of established phenomena — such as malware or phishing — to less well-known ones, such as metasploit releases and pass-the-hash attacks.
[April 10, 2008, 9:20]
UK Leads Europe In Chip Design
News These firms, including well-known names such as ARM Holdings, rely on third-party manufacturers, focussing their efforts on chip design. Other examples of chipless companies are ARC International of the UK and Rambus and Mips of the US, while well...
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
Nanotubes Break Semiconducting Record
News The electrical conductivity properties of nanotubes -- a synthetic material with the potential to revolutionise industries from plastics to computer chips -- have been well known for some time. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes are significantly...
[December 19, 2003, 9:05]
Update For Exchange Server 2003 (KB 930241)
Downloads After applying a version of Store.exe that is later than 06.05.7651.26 on a computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, the Exchange databases may fail to mount if the security descriptor of the database object has been modified to...
[September 5, 2007, 11:21]
Intel Names Next-gen Mobile Processor
News Instead of just giving Banias a variation on the company's well-known Pentium moniker, Intel decided to set the family of chips apart with a completely new name. The new chip family, which includes the processor formerly known by the code name...
[January 8, 2003, 13:48]
Why ITIL?
White Papers Well, implementing a well-known standard such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a strong option that will enable you to deliver high-quality IT services that meet both customer and your own business needs.
[November 23, 2004, 2:00]
Crackers Question Moon Landings
News The site, belonging to NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Project, was taken over by a well-known group of Brazilian hackers known as Prime Suspectz. Paul Rogers, security with MIS corporate defence solutions, says that...
[March 7, 2001, 15:33]
Passwords Are The Weakest Link
News Retrieving the password file from one of the health care company's servers, the consulting firm put "John the Ripper," a well-known cracking program, on the case. While such defences have made hacking attempts based on repetitive password guesses...
[May 22, 2002, 15:50]
