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PC World - Of all the hassles that can plague a PC user (and, trust me, there are many), few are as infuriating as random lockups. There you are, typing along, when suddenly everything just freezes. No error message, no blue screen, just a locked-up, unresponsive system. I’ve been there. I feel your pain.
If you’re a Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) user, you may be in luck: Microsoft recently issued a hotfix for systems that stop responding randomly.
What causes the problem? Microsoft says it’s “a deadlock condition between the Lsass.exe process, the Redirected Drive Buffering Subsystem (Rdbss.sys) driver, and the Winsock kernel.” Well, duh! That was going to be my first guess.
The hotfix is available for both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. (Fun fact: you’ll often see these versions represented as “x86″ and “x64,” respectively.) To get
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An Obama administration policy allowing U.S. border officials to seize and search laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices for any reason was challenged as unconstitutional in federal court Tuesday.
Citing the government’s own figures, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers claim about 6,500 persons had their electronic devices searched along the U.S. border since October, 2008. In one instance, according to the lawsuit filed in New York, a computer laptop was seized from a New York man at the Canadian border and not returned for 11 days. The lawsuit seeks no monetary damages, but asks the court to order an end to the searches.
“All we want is that the government has to have some shred of evidence they can point to that may turn up some evidence of wrongdoing,” says ACLU attorney Catherine Crump.
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Computerworld - Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users’ walls earlier this week.
The flaw was the second in the past week that let spammers flood the service with messages promoting scams.
Last week, Facebook quashed a different bug in its photo upload service that let a spammer post thousands of unwanted wall messages.
The newest worm was noticed Monday by researchers at a pair of antivirus vendors, Finland-based F-Secure and U.K.-based Sophos.
“A clever spammer has discovered a Facebook vulnerability that allows for auto-replicating links,” said Sean Sullivan, an F-secure security researcher. “Until now, typical Facebook spam has required the use of some social engineering to spread.”
Clicking on the link to the bogus application automatically added the app to users’ profiles, then automatically reposted a status message with a
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The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For modified or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The vulnerabilities are based on the CVE vulnerability naming standard and are organized according to severity, determined by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) standard. The division of high, medium, and low severities correspond to the following scores:
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Computerworld - Apple has revealed that the iOS 4.1 update will be launched tomorrow.
For a brief time over the weekend, the company’s U.K. site stated that the update, which CEO Steve Jobs said would be released this week, would be available Wednesday, Sept. 8.
The site was quickly revised to show a notice saying only that the download was “Coming soon,” the same message that has been posted on Apple’s U.S. site since Jobs introduced the operating system upgrade and touted its new features last week.
Along with new functionality included with iOS 4.1 — ranging from “high dynamic range” (HDR) photography that produces more detail in over- and under-exposed areas, to the launch of Apple’s Game Center multi-player online network — Jobs also promised that the update would fix some of the bugs in iOS 4.0 that users have been complaining
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