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Find out all about the iPhone at our iPhone Centre. News, reviews, how-tos and video - all in one location.- +
Google touts iPhone, Chrome browser 05/09/2008 08:50:00
Google heaps praise on the iPhone, Chrome and their cloud potential at the Office 2.0 Conference.A Google executive Thursday heaped praise on Apple's iPhone, even with his company set to challenge Apple in this same space with its Android mobile computing platform. - +
Disgruntled customer files second iPhone 3G class-action lawsuit 04/09/2008 10:29:00
An iPhone 3G customer has filed the second lawsuit against Apple and US telecommunications provider AT&T over the popular phone. This one, by William J. Gillis Jr., was filed in San Diego, California and charges that the two companies deliberately misrepresented what users could expect in terms of 3G connectivity and performance, according to blogger Justin McLachlan who first broke the news on Tuesday. - +
iPhone imitators prepping for their close-ups 01/09/2008 08:22:00
It may be too early, or too presumptuous, to call Apple's iPhone a technology icon, but all the other major equipment makers in the emerging smart phone realm are looking to create their own "iconic" device.
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It takes less than five minutes for hackers to find and compromise an unpatched Windows PC after it's connected to the Internet, a security researcher said today.
The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) currently estimates the "survival" time of an Internet-connected computer running Windows at around four minutes if it's not equipped with the latest Microsoft security patches, said Lorna Hutcheson, a researcher and analyst, in a post to the ISC blog.
"I have been asked many [times] by people if I really believed the survival time graph on the ISC site was truly an accurate representation of how long a new system had once connected," said Hutcheson. "The answer to this is 'yes' for most home users and systems that are Internet facing.
ISC maintains a record of the time between network probes for an average IP address, and assumes that hackers would follow a successful probe -- which would disclose one or more open ports -- with an exploit, most likely a worm.
Another security researcher, however, said unpatched machines can last longer than just a few minutes before falling to attack. The German Honeypot Project, which sets vulnerable systems on the Internet to collect malware, estimates survival time in hours, not minutes.
"Compared to the survival time from the Internet Storm Center which is currently below five minutes, we measure a higher survival time," said Thorsten Holz, a co-founder of the project and current a Ph.D. student at the University of Mannheim, in a post to the Honeypot Project's blog. The project's data estimates the average time between connecting to the Internet and compromise at under 1,000 minutes, or approximately 16 hours.
"[But] the time is still short and you need to patch a system before taking it online," said Holz.
"While the survival time varies quite a bit across methods used, pretty much all agree that placing an unpatched Windows computer directly onto the Internet in the hope that it downloads the patches faster than it gets exploited are odds that you wouldn't bet on in Vegas," added Hutcheson of the ISC.
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