Apple now has the support of a USB industry standards group in its battle to keep the Palm Pre from using the iTunes music service.The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) said in a statement Tuesday that Apple can block the Pre from connecting to iTunes. The group issued a letter to both companies warning Palm that further attempts to use iTunes would violate the group’s policy.The voice of the USB-IF is strong in this case since the group is responsible for issuing Apple the hardware vendor ID that lets its devices connect to iTunes via USB. Palm has used this process…

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F Secure Internet Security provides a complete and easy to use protection against all Internet threats whether they are known or previously unidentified This protection software includes an award winning antivirus an easy to use personal firewall an improved antispyware and a new technology F Secure DeepGuard 2 0 that constantly monitors the very heart of your computer ensuring that no malicious programs can take over your computer even if you do not have all the latest updates In addition the product filters unwanted spam and so called phishing attempts from your eMail and with the parental control you can…

Businesses today are increasingly making use of business credit cards to transact, both as vendors and as buyers. This trend in spite, there are still a number of vendors who do not accept business credit cards from their business clientele. The truth of the matter is that if such a vendor wishes to achieve higher trading volumes and increase its client base, accepting business credit cards changes from being an optional, to a must.
Accounts receivable is not only a nasty trap, but also creates a vicious cycle. Vendors that do not accept business credit cards, often agree to extending…

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We’ve printed [John Keppel]’s winning t-shirt design. They’ll be available for purchase in the vendor area at Defcon. If you’re at the con, pick one up because we don’t have any plans yet to distribute them online. We will have a small number of women’s tank tops as well. See you there!

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If you own a mobile phone made by HTC and connect using Bluetooth, there’s a decent chance security researcher Alberto Moreno Tablado can rummage through sensitive files stored on the device using a critical bug in some of its wireless device features.
The directory traversal flaw resides in the File Transfer Profile (OBEX FTP) service that’s built in to the Bluetooth stack implemented by HTC, Tablado writes here. It allows an attacker to move from a phone’s Bluetooth shared folder into other folders and affects HTC handsets running versions 6 and 6.1 of the Microsoft Mobile operating system.
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Security researchers from SecureMac has discovered multiple variants of a new Trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The Trojan horse is currently being distributed from a hacker website, where discussion has taken place on distributing the Trojan horse through iChat, Apple’s instant messaging and video chat software, and Limewire.
SecureMac, a Mac-specific anti-virus vendor, researchers discovered the Trojan in June 19. The Trojan, AppleScript.THT, was classified as a “critical” threat. SecureMac’s warning came one day after an anonymous reader disclosed a few details of the ARDAgent vulnerability on Slashdot.org, and on the…

The new Palm Pre cellphone has a “media sync” feature which lets the device sync with iTunes in a fashion identical to an iPod. Last week [Jon Lech Johansen] speculated that this was not done in cooperation with Apple and that Palm was spoofing the iPod’s USB controller. This was confirmed today when a tipster sent him a screenshot of what the device reports in both standard and media sync modes. The Palm Pre reports its Product ID as iPod and Vendor ID as Apple with a few other changes. [Jon] notes that it doesn’t change the root USB…

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Over the Past Year I have tried to provide relevant information about the CCIE training that is out there as well as some of the updates to the CCIE Program itself. I have blogged about IPexpert as weIl as Internetwork Expert, and I’ve even talked about the new 360 Program.
Well, today I got an email, but I was unable to post about it earlier due to some family business I had to tend to. Here is what I was told:
Cisco today announced a major revision to its CCIE Routing & Switching (R&S) certification and the corresponding 360 Learning…

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