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whitepaper This Compuware white paper highlights the chasm that exists between the developers who create Microsoft .NET and Java applications and the QA testers who tease out a program's flaws. It explains why quality assurance testers, who are in a much...
[09 May 2008]
News OOXML is also theoretically open, but central to the UKUUG's legal action is ISO's fast-tracking of the format into standardisation without properly addressing its many unresolved technical flaws - an issue exacerbated by OOXML's extraordinary...
[02 May 2008]
News Apple has released another round of security patches for its web browser this week, targeting a vulnerability which allowed a MacBook Air to be hacked and two flaws in the Windows-only version of Safari.
[18 Apr 2008]
whitepaper A common theme throughout this white paper of security problems is that the technological mechanisms to address many of the perceived flaws exist and are well understood, but they must be activated to provide protection.
[10 Apr 2008]
Comment According to this concept your system can have plenty of flaws - but if nobody knows where they are it isn't a problem. The idea is that if the rest of the execs can't spot the CIO's flaws, then they won't be able to sack him or her.
[06 Mar 2008]
News It has emerged the Child Support Agency's (CSA) troubled £1.1bn computer system has needed 130 changes in eight years to get it working properly. The agency's CS2 computer system, which was built by EDS, has been plagued with technical problems...
[04 Mar 2008]
whitepaper As virtual machines become increasingly commonplace as a method of separating hostile or hazardous code from commodity systems, the potential security exposure from implementation flaws has increased dramatically.
[29 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Recently, concerns have resurfaced over whether or not 'Paid for' security research is in the best interest of the industry - citing that information surrounding software flaws could wind up in the hands of criminals.
[28 Feb 2008]
whitepaper You'll learn the hidden flaws in the current industry trend toward simple self-service--and how a new model combines self-service with the latest in help desk technology, resulting in fewer escalations and more first-call resolutions.
[25 Feb 2008]
News A serious threat to all computer systems comes from websites that have been planted with malicious code, which exploit flaws in applications such as Internet Explorer, and Apple's Quicktime. Multiple flaws were discovered for each of these...
[23 Jan 2008]
whitepaper In the currently available solutions one notes several important flaws such as the possibility of denying access to legitimate clients and/or causing service degradation at the potential target machines, therefore the paper aims to minimize such...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper These flaws in the Nagle algorithm have prompted many application implementors to disable it, even in cases where this is neither necessary nor wise. Modern TCP implementations include a mechanism, known as the Nagle algorithm, which prevents the...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper It also discusses many flaws in the TCP implementation that has occurred in various OS based systems. In network environment the computer facilities are interconnected by using the Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol suite.
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper TCP has typical performance flaws in these cases. This paper discusses the performance of the Transmission Control Protocol under two aspects: First, the future Internet will provide some kind of service differentiation and bandwidth guarantees.
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper To address the security flaws of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the IEEE802.11i draft defines two data confidentiality and integrity protocols, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Counter-Mode-CBC-MAC Protocol (CCMP).
[11 Jan 2008]
Comment There are some actual flaws in the operating system itself but these are buried under a mound of mostly irrelevant flaws with respect to how users of OS X use OS X. He did the same thing last spring, he counted flaws in open source software that...
[03 Jan 2008]
News He found Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X, faced more critical flaws than Windows XP and Vista combined. Ou wrote: "This shows that Apple had more than five times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007 and most of...
[20 Dec 2007]
whitepaper This paper measures the characteristics of the legacy multicast transmission mechanism and analyze its flaws. While the deployment of WiFi networks continues to grow at an explosive rate, the multicast multimedia delivery service on WiFi compliant...
[19 Dec 2007]
News This includes several flaws that could lead to a remote attacker executing malicious code on a Mac in programs like Address Book, the Safari browser's RSS feed and CUPS (common Unix printing system), among other things.
[18 Dec 2007]
whitepaper The difference between flaws and bugs is explained, and potential countermeasures are discussed at both tactical and technology-specific levels. Security code reviews can play a critical role in improving the quality of an application.
[13 Dec 2007]
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