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Comment Re:Is it just me (Score 1) 381

by kg4gyt on Thursday June 14, 2007 @08:30AM (#19503643) Attached to: Virginia Tech Report Cites Privacy Law Problems

I think that people are looking at the wrong privacy laws. In this case the issues is that after a judge orders someone to undergo mental treatment, the mental health facilities cannot report back to the court or to law enforcement whether or not the treatment ever occurred. The entire problem is that patient confidentiality has gotten to the point of crippling the system. Not government invasion of privacy.

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by joetheprogrammer on Sunday March 04, 2007 @09:46PM

Submission + - Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection

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Manequintet

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @07:46PM

Manequintet writes: "Joanna Rutkowska's latest bit of rootkit-related research shatters the myth that hardware-based (PCI cards or FireWire bus) RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to do forensics. At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she demonstrated three different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the physical memory as seen by the CPU. The overall problem, Rutkowska explained, is the design of the system that makes it impossible to reliably read memory from computers. "Maybe we should rethink the design of our computer systems so they they are somehow verifiable," she said."

Month of PHP Bugs Has Begun 165

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 03, 2007 @02:28PM from the quick-hide-the-furniture dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The previously announced Month of PHP Bugs started three days ago, and already lists 8 security vulnerabilities in PHP and PHP related software. From the site: 'This initiative is an effort to improve the security of PHP. However we will not concentrate on problems in the PHP language that might result in insecure PHP applications, but on security vulnerabilities in the PHP core. During March 2007 old and new security vulnerabilities in the Zend Engine, the PHP core and the PHP extensions will be disclosed on a day by day basis. We will also point out necessary changes in the current vulnerability management process used by the PHP Security Response Team.'"

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