By Sumner Lemon July 14, 2008
Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel's microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running. Kaspersky will demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at the upcoming Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during October. The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. "I'm going to show real working code...and make it publicly available," Kaspersky said, adding that CPU bugs are a growing threat and malware is being written that targets these vulnerabilities.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
YouTube agrees to share viewer data, without IDs and IPs
By Ed Oswald, July 15, 2008
Litigants trying to get data on what the video site's users were watching have backed off somewhat, although YouTube will still have to share some data with Viacom. Plaintiffs Viacom and a class-action group led by the Football Association of England agreed to accept a watered-down version of YouTube's viewer logs. That version will not include the IP addresses nor the YouTube usernames of the viewers. Earlier this month, a judge ordered Google to turn over this information to Viacom. The media conglomerate had specifically requested information that would have also tied the viewer data to a specific YouTube user. Viacom has been at the forefront of the copyright fracas involving YouTube: It sued the site for $1 billion in 2007. The Football Association of England followed not soon after, claiming it had identified about 160,000 unauthorized clips of European football programs -- viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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Litigants trying to get data on what the video site's users were watching have backed off somewhat, although YouTube will still have to share some data with Viacom. Plaintiffs Viacom and a class-action group led by the Football Association of England agreed to accept a watered-down version of YouTube's viewer logs. That version will not include the IP addresses nor the YouTube usernames of the viewers. Earlier this month, a judge ordered Google to turn over this information to Viacom. The media conglomerate had specifically requested information that would have also tied the viewer data to a specific YouTube user. Viacom has been at the forefront of the copyright fracas involving YouTube: It sued the site for $1 billion in 2007. The Football Association of England followed not soon after, claiming it had identified about 160,000 unauthorized clips of European football programs -- viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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Intel to release quad-core chip for laptops next month
Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it's unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip will offer over a dual-core chip
By Sumner Lemon, IDG News ServiceJuly 15, 2008
Intel will release its first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform. "We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran declined to disclose specifics of the quad-core chip, which will carry Intel's Core 2 Extreme moniker. Getting a quad-core processor into a laptop is more about bragging rights than a genuine boost in performance. Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it's unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip would offer over a dual-core chip, such as the 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9100.
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By Sumner Lemon, IDG News ServiceJuly 15, 2008
Intel will release its first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform. "We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran declined to disclose specifics of the quad-core chip, which will carry Intel's Core 2 Extreme moniker. Getting a quad-core processor into a laptop is more about bragging rights than a genuine boost in performance. Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it's unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip would offer over a dual-core chip, such as the 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9100.
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