Over the last year, it’s become clear that Google has a bigger war on its hands in mobile than it had anticipated. It’s principal antagonist is sexy Apple iPhone, which has seriously disrupted Google’s ambitions to turn mobile industry into a Web-based …
ausekilis sends us to DarkReading for the news that auditors have identified thousands of vulnerabilities in the FAA’s Web-based air traffic control applications — 763 of them high-risk. Here is the report on the Department of Transportation site (PDF). “And the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization, which heads up ATC operations, received more than 800 security incident alerts in fiscal 2008, but still had not fixed 17 percent of the flaws that caused them, ‘including critical incidents in which hackers may have taken over control of ATO computers,’ the report says. … While the number of serious flaws in the FAA’s apps appears to be staggering, Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, says the rate is actually in line with the average number of bugs his security firm finds in most Web applications. … Auditors were able to hack their way through the Web apps to get to data on the Web application and ATC servers, including the FAA’s Traffic Flow Management Infrastructure system, Juneau Aviation Weather System, and the Albuquerque Air Traffic Control Tower. They also were able to gain entry into an ATC system that monitors power, according to the report. Another vulnerability in the FAA’s Traffic Flow Management Infrastructure leaves related applications open to malware injection.”
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From content management systems to web portal creation tools, Linux has just about everything you need. Among those thousands of tools, a select few stand out as the best of the best. Listed below you will find my top 10 must-haves for Linux server/web/cloud-based tools.
Ruby on Rails, an open source web development framework, has revolutionized the way we create web applications. In this article, we discuss some of the ways Rails can help you in rapidly building fully-featured web-based applications.
StudiVZ is a Facebook-style operation and it’s Germany’s largest web-based social networking site. With the European Parliament elections in sight, the website recently opened up to established political parties for election campaigning. Not for all parties though, as they chose to ban the Pirate Party.
tobiasly writes “I administer several Ubuntu desktops and numerous CentOS servers. One of the biggest headaches is keeping them up-to-date with each distro’s latest bugfix and security patches. I currently have to log in to each system, run the appropriate apt-get or yum command to list available updates, determine which ones I need, then run the appropriate install commands. I’d love to have a distro-independent equivalent of the Red Hat Network where I could do all of this remotely using a web-based interface. PackageKit seems to have solved some of the issues regarding cross-distro package maintenance, but their FAQ explicitly states that remote administration is not a goal of their project. Has anyone put together such a system?”
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What Google did with Gmail in conventional browsers five years ago it is expecting to do again with a new mobile version of its Web-based e-mail service.
BobB-nw writes “A new cloud storage vendor is entering the market, promising an enterprise-class file system with snapshots, replication, and other features designed to simplify adoption for existing users and applications. Zetta, founded in 2007 by veterans of Netscape, has million in funding and is coming out of stealth mode Monday with Enterprise Cloud Storage, a Web-based storage platform that will compete against Amazon’s Simple Storage Service and a growing number of cloud vendors. Zetta’s goal was to build a Web-based storage system that would be accepted by enterprise IT professionals for storing primary data. ‘Data growth rates are staggering. In businesses you see growth rates of 40 to 60 percent year over year,’ says CEO Jeff Treuhaft, a Zetta cofounder and formerly one of Netscape’s first employees. Another Zetta cofounder is Lou Montulli, an early Netscape employee who invented Web cookies.”
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thomsomc writes “Joe Stewart from the Conficker Working Group has created an eye chart that allows for online identification of Conficker B and C infections. Using basic knowledge of the blacklisting that Conficker employs to avoid attempting to infect IPs that belong to popular Anti-Virus and security firms (including Microsoft), the group whipped up this very simple test to see if you can load content from the various pages. If you can see all of the images, you’re more than likely Conficker-free. According to Honeynet, ‘This detection method should be more reliable than network scanning based tests. Happy scanning!'” Related: Tech Fragments notes in passing that nothing much seems to have come of conficker’s dreaded April 1 deadline.
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ISoldat53 sends this quote from McClatchy DC: “The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries’ use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about the machines’ vulnerability to tampering. Appearing last month before a US Election Assistance Commission field hearing in Orlando, Fla., a CIA cybersecurity expert suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his allies fixed a 2004 election recount, an assertion that could further roil US relations with the Latin leader. … Stigall said that most Web-based ballot systems had proved to be insecure. The commission has been criticized for giving states more than billion to buy electronic equipment without first setting performance standards. Numerous computer-security experts have concluded that US systems can be hacked, and allegations of tampering in Ohio, Florida and other swing states have triggered a campaign to require all voting machines to produce paper audit trails.”
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