IT industry in Europe is facing a shortfall of around 300,000 skilled professionals and European Union's idea to make up for it is by bringing in more women. According to Viviane Reding, information society commissioner of EU, women should be convinced that IT isn't just for geeks and IT jobs are very sexy indeed. Given the stats that 58% of graduates are women but only 19% of IT professionals are of fairer sex, the comments are justified indeed. Women bring in more skill, dedication and motivation to the work environment and we guys who sit in a very small cubicle that is half occupied by a computer, will have something to be happy about when we go to the office.
C'mon women, make IT industry more 'sexy'!!!
Windows hacked using Firewire:
Widows is found to have yet another security bug that Microsoft overlooked. A New Zealand researcher Adam Boileau has hacked a Windows system at a security convention in 2006 but decided not to release the code. But after seeing that no measures are being taken by MS in these 2 years, he decided to go public. According to him, the attacker needs to have a Linux system connected physically to a Windows one with Firewire cable, to run his tool.
The tool, called Winlockpwn, allows users to bypass Windows authorization, was originally demonstrated at Ruxcon in 2006 at a talk called "Hit By A Bus: Physical Access Attacks With Firewire".
The attack takes advantage of the fact that Firewire can directly read and write to a system's memory, adding extra speed to data transfer. According to Boileau, because this capability is built into Firewire, Microsoft doesn't consider the problem a standard bug.
Firewire has become common on Windows systems in the past few years, and is especially prevalent on laptops.
The problem can be remedied by disabling Firewire when not in use.
For more information about Firewire, check the link below.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire
Apple last week purchased a patent for the iPhone from British Telecom. The patent (U.S. patent 6,956,564) covers sensing technology originally invented by Lyndsay Williams for BT in 1997. The technology was originally deployed in a touch-sensitive computer called SmartQuill. This was capable of handwriting recognition, and could be used to write documents on paper the computer would then remember and store.
As it applies to the iPhone, the patent covers the devices designation as a portable computer that's responsive to movement and produces an electrical output signal representative of such movement. SmartQuill carried a small screen that offered different views as the device was turned around. The patent purchase could be designed to protect Apple's iPhone's movement detection sensor, which moves the screen and changes the representation offered on screen when iPhone is moved around.
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