http://www.lockdown.co.uk LockDown is the source for security information and resources for the home computer user. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:17:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From washingtonpost.com (via slashdot)In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."Read the full article at washingtonpost.comRead the report by Privacy International http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=143 From CRN Test Center: (via Slashdot) "After a week of extensive testing, the CRN Test Center found that users of Windows Vista and Windows XP are equally at risk to viruses and exploits and that overall Vista brings only marginal security advantages over XP." Read the full article at CRN Test Center http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=142 From ars technica:"...songs sold without DRM still have a user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them, which means that dropping that new DRM-free song on your favorite P2P network could come back to bite you."Read the full article at ars technica http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=141 From Linux.com:Ever find yourself with too many passwords to remember and no idea where to keep them so that only you can find the password list? Creating a password.txt file in your root directory is out of the question, as is a password-protected OpenOffice.org file. A piece of paper hidden ... http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=140 From ars technica (via slashdot): "If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves," he writes in the paper. "Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and ... http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=139 From Cory Doctorow @ boingboing:"The Trustees heard that 90 percent of the respondents didn't want DRM and especially didn't want Microsoft DRM. But rather than giving the BBC orders to deliver its free-to-air video in free-to-net formats, they gave it permission to sell out the license-fee payers who are required ... http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=138 From linux.com:"What do you do if you forget the password to your OpenOffice.org files? The simplest solution is to download OOo Password Cracker, a macro for opening protected documents in any OpenOffice.org application. Using a brute force dictionary attack, OOo Password Cracker provides a slow but reliable method of document ... http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=137 From The Register:"Just after vbootkit takes control, it hijacks the interrupt 13, then searches for Signature for Vista OS. After detecting Vista, it starts patching Vista, meanwhile hiding itself (in smaller chunks at different memory locations). The patches includes bypassing several protections such as checksum, digital signature verification etc, and ... http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=136 From The Register:Developers have discovered that the name given to a Vista executable affects whether or not it will require admin rights to run.Read the full article at The Register http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=135 From Zero Day:"Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system."Read the full article at Zero Day http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?p=134