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Microsoft Releases Security Update, Patches the BEAST Flaw in SSL/TLS

Microsoft released a number of seven security bulletins for January 2012 that address vulnerabilities found in Windows Media, Windows ClickOnce application installer, Windows Object Packager, the operating system’s Kernel, and the now famous SSL/TLS protocol weakness dubbed BEAST. The vulnerability in the SSL ...

11 January 2012
02:56 GMT

Oracle Patches 57 Vulnerabilities and Slows Down the BEAST

Oracle released a Critical Patch Update that contains a large number of security fixes for products such as Linux 5, Sun Ray, Sun Product Suit, Fusion Middleware, Application Server, Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and more.The patch contains a lot of things that will make the internet a safer place, but one...

19 October 2011
08:12 GMT

Firefox Considers Not Using Java to Counterattack the BEAST

Firefox researchers are discussing the possibility of completely disabling Java content in their browser as a solution for stopping the BEAST. The proof-of-concept called the BEAST has caused waves of panic in the past few days, each browser vendor trying to come up with something that will stop the potential atta...

29 September 2011
03:36 GMT

Browser Vendors Prepare for SSL Attacks

In a very short time the SSL BEAST research will be revealed and web browser vendors will have to come up with ingenious ways of protecting their products not to lose the admiration of their fans. The easiest way to fix the problem would be to upgrade to the newer versions of the security protocols implemented so ...

23 September 2011
09:52 GMT

SSL Encryption Turns Out to Be Highly Vulnerable

Researchers discovered that the encryption that's supposed to protect us while surfing the web is totally exploitable by hackers with the necessary know-how. According to The Register, Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo plan to demonstrate a proof-of-concept code which will prove that SSL protocols are not as secur...

20 September 2011
08:25 GMT

'Hotspots' on Lit Metal Surfaces Explained

For years, physicists have been observing a peculiar phenomenon in metal surfaces on which light was shone. Mysterious electromagnetic “hotspots” appeared to develop on them, but only at the nanoscale. A team of experts now believes it has discovered the missing piece to this puzzle. The work was conducte...

20 January 2011
04:44 GMT

Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock Features Beasts, Legends

Activision, the publisher, and Neversoft and Vicarious Visisions, as the developers, have confirmed that they are working on a new Guitar Hero title, Warriors of Rock. The companies also delivered some more information on the new installment, saying that they are planning to shake up the traditional structure of the ...

1 June 2010
05:08 GMT

Gladiators and Beasts in the Roman Arenas

It all started in 264 BC at the obsequies of Junius Brutus when, in the honor of his memory, three pairs of gladiators fought. Just three! 50 years later, Aemilius Lepidus threw in the arena 22 pairs of gladiators. In 106 AD, celebrating his victory over the Dacians in an atmosphere of total lush, emperor Trajan offe...

21 April 2007
07:48 GMT


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