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HTTPS Web Hijacking Goes From Theory to Practice

Web browsers always start off using HTTP which has zero security. No one actually manually types in "HTTPS" or "HTTP" and they generally just type "gmail.com" for example and expect the web browser to magically re-route them to a secure sign-in. ...

From GEORGE OU, CircleID,  20 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

The Problem With HTTPS SSL Runs Deeper Than MD5

The recent research highlighting the alarming practice of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate Authority (CA) vendors using the MD5 hashing algorithm (which was known to be broken since 2005) has shown a major crack in the foundation of the Web. While ...

From GEORGE OU, CircleID,  5 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  VeriSign, Inc.,  Harvard University,  Robert Graham,  Google Inc.

Saying goodbye to ZDNet

ZDNet blogs has been my online home since 2004.  With the help and a lot of guidance from David Berlind, Stephen Howard-Sarin, and David Grober, I was brought in to the world of blogging and journalism.  I enjoyed my work and all the conversations here ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  27 Mar 2008

55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer

Most computer builders in the world think I’m nuts for endorsing the use of 330 watt power supplies for a high-end performance computer.  Conventional “wisdom” says that anything under 500 watts is inadequate for an enthusiast PC.  “My power supply is ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  26 Mar 2008

Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet.  He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) congestion control is fundamentally broken ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  24 Mar 2008

HDMI survival guide for home theater

There’s a lot of money to be made in the HDMI cabling and switch aftermarket and unfortunately that means a lot of consumers are getting tricked in to paying outrageous prices.  I’ve spent quite a bit of time helping my friends set up their home ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  21 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog

What happens when you want to just want a bunch of phones in your business, hotel, or organization and you don’t need a bunch of fancy and complicated features on the phone?  It’s simple, just get a bunch of cheap analog phones.  But how do you build a ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  20 Mar 2008

Fraunhofer IIS shows audio technology at VON.x 2008

In the world where chip technology improves exponentially, acoustic engineering isn’t so simple and it presents a huge hurdle to overcome to the world of telephony and video conferencing.  Fraunhofer IIS (inventors of MPEG-1 Layer 3 AKA MP3) seeks to ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  19 Mar 2008

Japan's ISPs agree to ban P2P pirates

According to the Daily Yomiuri Online, the Internet providers two years ago attempted to disconnect users anytime they detected the use of Winny (a popular Japanese P2P application) or any other file-sharing software.  But that ran afoul of the ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  16 Mar 2008

AMD Shanghai won't get HyperTransport 3

HyperTransport 3 which was once slated for AMD’s Barcelona server processors seem to be delayed again on Shanghai until some time in 2009 when it finally arrives for the “Montreal” quad- and octal-core CPUs.  According to page 21 of Mario Rivas’ slides, ...

From GEORGE OU, ZDNet,  14 Mar 2008
Related Topics: AMD

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