Monday, May 31, 2010

IT News HeadLines (AOA - Alliance of Overclocking Arts) 31/05/2010



Anti-Clickjacking Defenses 'Busted' In Top Websites

From Dark Reading


New research easily bypasses popular frame-busting technique

Turns out the most common defense against clickjacking and other Web framing attacks is easily broken: Researchers were able to bypass frame-busting methods used by all of the Alexa Top 500 websites.

The new research from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus found that frame-busting, a popular technique that basically stops a website from operating when it's loaded inside a "frame," does not prevent clickjacking. Clickjacking attacks use malicious iFrames inserted into a Web page to hijack a user's Web session.


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5 Ways Steve Ballmer Can Save Microsoft's Mobile Bacon

From PC World

A wasted decade on Windows Mobile threatens Microsoft's relevance in the future of computing.

It appears that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally woken up and realized that Microsoft's laughable mobile position is more than a product failure but a potential loss of relevance in the computing world of the future, where desktop PCs are like TVs and the real action is in mobile devices of all stripes.


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ISPs told to keep filesharer naughty list

From The Register:

Ofcom confirms Hull as freetard capital

The details of internet users who are accused of unlawful filesharing three times will be recorded on a blacklist so record and film companies can target legal action, rules published today reveal.


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