by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry
Modern operating systems randomise all memory addresses (Address Space Layout Randomisation). Libraries loaded into memory, for example, are loaded into memory with random offsets. The result is that simply discovering a buffer overflow in a browser and so...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
One subscription serves up to five Windows computers Microsoft today rolled out its New Office software, presenting it as a family plan for its Office 365 cloud service for five machines rather than as a download or disk for just one machine. Called Office 365 Home...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
In a few weeks the MPAA, RIAA and five major U.S. Internet providers will start to warn BitTorrent pirates. The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are told that their behavior is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the rome-wasn’t-built-in-5-years-either dept. Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog Entry
A controversial bill that would tax sodas with sugar has been introduced in Austin by State Rep. Joe Farias, D-Dist. 118, of San Antonio. To read the full bill, click here (PDF). The tax would be charge a nickel extra for every 12 ounces of soft drink in a...
