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Mitnick cleared after customs scare
Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago. Read more »
CSIRO victorious in Wi-Fi appeal
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has come one step closer to defending its patent relating to several Wi-Fi standards, with defendant Buffalo Technology losing a US appeal on the matter. Read more »
How hackers broke into Palin's email
Details have emerged about how Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email account was broken into, including a hacker's claim he was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password. Read more »
Palin's email gets hacked
Hackers have reportedly broken into US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account and posted some of the contents on the internet. Read more »
Microsoft attacks potential VMware feature
Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMware for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory. Read more »
SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims
SCO Group has been ordered to pay a €10,000 fine in Germany for making claims that Linux includes intellectual property from Unix. Read more »
Microsoft extends Novell pact
Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems. Read more »
Open source licence victory in model-railway case
A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions. Read more »
US subway hackers still gagged
A US judge let stand a temporary restraining order preventing three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from discussing or disclosing their research into security vulnerabilities in the payment system for the local subway system. Read more »
Judge halts Defcon hacking speech
A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system. Read more »
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10+ things you should know about rootkits
Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. Read more »
Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class
The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »
Integrating CSS techniques into ASP.NET 2.0 applications
CSS is now the accepted approach to styling Web interfaces, and ASP.NET makes it easy to integrate CSS into your solutions. Read more »
Microsoft plays open but patent jaws still have teeth
Despite Microsoft's claim it will not sue developers that build free open source software on Microsoft platforms, a caveat leaves a yawning space for its legal teeth to gnash those that commercialise the software. Read more »
Choosing the right document type for Web pages
One of the features of HTML standards is that each HTML document requires a document type declaration (DOCTYPE). Web developers are often confused when using a document type and simply omit it. Read more »
Teen iPhone hacker predicts two weeks: Interview
Builder AU tracked down the first person outside of Apple to get their hands on the inner workings of the iPhone and asked him the what, the where and the why of hacking the iPhone. Read more »
Creating an IT policy that works
Every business is different, but you can take advantage of certain best practices to increase your odds of crafting and implementing a policy that employees will support and that will help protect your organisation. Read more »
Generate development documentation with the inclusion by reference method
One technique for generating software development documentation which deserves more attention is the idea of including documentation by reference. Read more »
'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope
The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing. Read more »
Talking IP with Kimberlee Weatherall and Rusty Russell
Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall and Linux Australia's IP Policy Adviser, Rusty Russell, talk about the new intellectual property laws Read more »
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Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table
-- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »
It's ego check time for Intel, Negroponte
-- I'm especially puzzled over the inane dustup that erupted this week between Negroponte's nonprofit One Laptop Per Child and Intel. Read more »
Busybox settles a second GPL suit
-- The folks behind Busybox have settled a second lawsuit that argued a company violated the widely used free and open-source license. Read more »
Firefox runs amok - thanks to Google
-- A hidden feature of Firefox can result in the downloading of cookies and Web pages that the user did not intend by doing a Google search. Read more »
The trouble with contracting
-- More and more companies are using IT recruiters and contracting agencies to fill developer positions, but the developer usually ends up paying the price. Read more »
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Microsoft prescribes more RESTDetails have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »
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With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »
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Spellr.us needs a new dictionaryOne of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
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