Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge, PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it. His work has been published in everything from highly technical publications (IEEE [...]

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company’s online community initiative around secure content management technologies. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, [...]

Ed Bott is a freelance technical journalist and book author. All work that Ed does is on a contractual basis. Since 1994, Ed has written more than 25 books about Microsoft Windows and Office. Along with various co-authors, Ed is completely responsible for the content of the books he writes. As a key part of [...]

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company’s online community initiative around secure content management technologies. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, [...]

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company’s online community initiative around secure content management technologies. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, [...]

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company’s online community initiative around secure content management technologies. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, [...]

VANCOUVER — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser has fallen. A team of French researchers exploited two different IE zero-day flaws to break into a fully patched Windows 7 SP1 machine and take an almost unassailable lead in this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own competition. The hacking team, from French security research outfit VUPEN, used an unpatched heap [...]

h-t-t-p://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox#TOC-Sandbox-policy Caveats: “The operating system might have bugs. Of interest are bugs in the Windows API that allow the bypass of the regular security checks. If such a bug exists, malware will be able to bypass the sandbox restrictions and broker policy and possibly compromise the computer. Under Windows, there is no practical way to [...]

VANCOUVER — At last year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest, Google Chrome was the only browser left standing.  This year, Chrome was the first to fall, thanks to an impressive exploit from a team of French hackers. VUPEN, the controversial company that sells vulnerabilities and exploits to government customers, deliberately took aim at Chrome this year [...]

Google can’t seem to get out of the government’s glare these days. Yesterday, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt launched the annual CeBit technology conference with heads of state from Germany and Brazil.  During the webcast, presenters pounded on the show’s key theme –managing trust — as a core concern as more data and applications — and consumers’ personal [...]