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When a malicious web page reconfigures a router or sets up forwarding in a webmail frontend, the culprit is usually a cross-site request forgery. OWASP's CSRFTester hunts down this kind of vulnerability more »
TrueCrypt is considered the software of choice for encrypting data. A small utility called TCHead systematically takes on this encryption more »
The recent iOS 6.0 release closes a critical security hole in the code for checking certificates that has been known about for nearly three years more »
PPTP is a common standard for safe, encoded internet use, but CloudCracker promises it can crack any PPTP connection - within a day, for $200. We tried it out with a real session more »
Windows 8's new Fast Startup feature puts data at risk when other operating systems are used to write to Windows partitions. Data loss is particularly likely with dual-boot configurations that involve Linux and Windows 8 more »
Could one radio be all you ever need for data, cellular calls, wifi and more? Software defined radio holds that promise. Andrew Back looks at how free software is one of the enablers in helping to put the technology into the hands of consumers more »
A look back at 2012, broken down by what The H thinks was a win, what we thought was a fail and what made us just say "Meh" more »
Glynn Moody thinks that, now open source foundations have apparently come of age, the time may be right for the formation of an umbrella foundation to share best practices and speak with one voice more »
The H talks with Bradley Kuhn, noted GPL compliance enforcer, about whether there should be more people also patrolling the GPL perimeter and what tools and techniques should a potential protector take into battle more »
Education is at the core of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's goals. The H talked to Foundation Executive Director Eben Upton on what progress was being made with these elements of the goals and how the Raspberry Pi hardware fits in with them more »
When should the new ForkJoinPool be preferred to the old ThreadPoolExecutor and when is it better to let it be? This article explores the major new features in the Java 7 fork/join framework and compares its performance in two practical applications more »
At this year's Qt Developer Days conference, the development framework's new owner succeeded in convincing the user community of its commitment to the project. The future will see greater concentration on portability and better support for different platforms more »
Integrating the many technologies, protocols and data formats should allow for standardised modelling, efficient implementation and automated testing. Spring Integration, Mule ESB and Apache Camel are three open source integration frameworks that bring these capabilities to the Java world more »
Linux 3.7 has more robust Intel and NVIDIA graphics drivers, support for ARM64, can handle NAT for IPv6 and has better Btrfs performance. These are just some of the enhancements in the latest version of the Linux kernel more »
Glyn Moody took advantage of one of Linus Torvalds' rare trips to Europe – speaking at the recent LinuxCon Europe 2012 in Barcelona – to interview him again, reviewing the key moments for the Linux kernel and its community since he first interviewed him back in 1996 more »
Andrew Back takes a look at the sysmoBTS, a open source software based small form factor GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS), that can provide a standalone mobile telephone network that is useful for research, development and testing purposes more »
When the boss's computer opens confidential emails remotely as if haunted, it is time to call the ghost busters or, even better, a professional forensic IT investigator more »