Militants send terror messages in India by 'wardriving'
Citizens need to be vigilant and patch poorly secured wireless networks, the Indian police said Monday after announcing the arrest of technology-savvy members of a militant group that exploited insecure wireless networks to send messages.
Worst Windows flaws of the past decade
Though Microsoft and the entire software industry have labored tirelessly to handle zero-day exploits and to develop protocols for reporting potential security problems, we've seen and experienced several colossal security meltdowns thanks to the humble Windows bug. These errors, buried in millions of lines of code, have steered great corporations and turned the tide of fortunes. It's high time they got the credit they deserve. Here are the worst Windows flaws we've endured since the introduction of Windows 98.
Five mistakes security pros would make again
After asking security professionals about some of the worst (publishable) mistakes they've ever made on the job, CSO decided to ask about mistakes professionals would gladly make again. Best mistakes, if you will, that ultimately paid off either personally or professionally. Here are five such tales:
VMware HA Fixed for SMB 2 node clusters
VMware HA was busted when VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 was applied. VMware HA would fail to fire when a node was down, fail to evacuate VMs when entering maintenance mode, and fail to start VMs, with a not enough resources error, if the second node was down. This all applied to the SMB two node cluster world. With VMware Virtual Center 2.5.0 Update 3 and the 10/3/08 patches for ESX this is now fixed.
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