http://www.saramago.com.ptenThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:29:24 PSThttp://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1hourly1http://www.saramago.com.pt/1245/86-of-windows-7-pcs-maxing-out-memory/SoftwareOSjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:29:24 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1245CWmike writes “Citing data from Devil Mountain Software’s community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company’s chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1245/86-of-windows-7-pcs-maxing-out-memory/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1240/rootkit-may-be-behind-windows-blue-screen/SecurityjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:29:22 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1240L3sPau1 writes “A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by Windows XP users who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researcher Patrick W. Barnes, investigating the issue, has [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1240/rootkit-may-be-behind-windows-blue-screen/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1236/windows-patch-leaves-many-xp-users-with-blue-screens/SecurityOSjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:29:15 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1236CWmike writes “Tuesday’s security updates from Microsoft have crippled Windows XP PCs with the notorious Blue Screen of Death, users have reported on the company’s support forum. Complaints began early yesterday, and gained momentum throughout the day. ‘I updated 11 Windows XP updates today and restarted my PC like it asked me to,’ said a [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1236/windows-patch-leaves-many-xp-users-with-blue-screens/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1241/was-this-the-first-denial-of-service-attack/SoftwareSecurityjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:29:06 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1241An anonymous reader writes “Way back in 1974, Dave Dennis, then aged 13, decided to try out the -ext- TUTOR command on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois, and see if he could cause all the terminals of other users to go offline. It worked. And he never got caught. Of course, the [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1241/was-this-the-first-denial-of-service-attack/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1242/linux-not-quite-ready-for-new-4k-sector-drives/SoftwareOSjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:28:54 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1242Theovon writes “We’ve seen a few stories recently about the new Western Digital Green drives. According to WD, their new 4096-byte sector drives are problematic for Windows XP users but not Linux or most other OSes. Linux users should not be complacent about this, because not all the Linux tools like fdisk have caught up. [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1242/linux-not-quite-ready-for-new-4k-sector-drives/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1243/ms-security-compliance-manager-v1-0-beta/SecurityjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:28:43 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1243Lançado ontem, versão beta, um dos produtos de segurança mais interessantes que a Microsoft prometeu: um sistema centralizado para gestão de parametrizações de segurança, que permitirá gerir, de uma forma simples e eficiente, as políticas definidas para um conjunto diversificado de máquinas e aplicações. As funcionalidades principais, segundo a Microsoft, são as seguintes: Gestão centralizada e portfolio [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1243/ms-security-compliance-manager-v1-0-beta/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1244/outlook-2010-bug-creates-monster-email-files/SoftwareWindowsjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:28:28 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1244Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World “Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1244/outlook-2010-bug-creates-monster-email-files/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1263/tres-em-quatro-empresas-atacadas-no-ano-passado/SecurityjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:22:43 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1263Na Tek: Os esforços realizados pelas empresas para acautelar a segurança dos seus sistemas de informação parecem não estar a produzir resultados suficientemente eficazes. De acordo com informação divulgada num relatório da Symantec, no ano passado três em cada quatro empresas foram vítimas de ciberataques, em maior ou menor escala. Vinte e nove por cento das [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1263/tres-em-quatro-empresas-atacadas-no-ano-passado/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1252/75-of-enterprises-have-suffered-cyber-attacks-costing-2m-on-average/SecurityjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:22:25 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1252coomaria writes “OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study (PDF) from a security company, that’s still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it’s Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1252/75-of-enterprises-have-suffered-cyber-attacks-costing-2m-on-average/feed/0http://www.saramago.com.pt/1246/pa-school-spied-on-students-via-school-issued-laptop-webcams/SecurityjsThu, 04 Mar 2010 03:21:19 PSThttp://www.saramago.com.pt/?p=1246jargon82 writes “A Pennsylvania high school is using laptops they issued to students to spy on them in homes and outside of school. According to a class action filling the webcams and microphones in these laptops could be remotely activated by school officials, and have been used in this role. One student was accused of [...]http://www.saramago.com.pt/1246/pa-school-spied-on-students-via-school-issued-laptop-webcams/feed/0