The Malaysian government is one of the more proactive within the Asia-Pacific region and is keen to promote technology as a driver to future economic prosperity. Most of the basic drivers towards mobile internet are just that - basic, and common to...
WLANs in petrol or service stations could be used to download diagnostic and fault information to repair services and at the same time to upload software profiles to the engine and onboard information to driver-oriented services - updating locally...
For example, a DVD-ROM drive has a device driver, as does a monitor. Sans, the security organisation, is calling on operating system makers such as Apple and Microsoft to provide device driver security patches, which they do not do at present.
The researcher, who goes by the initials 'LMH', wrote: "Mac OS X com.apple.AppleDiskImageController fails to properly handle corrupted DMG (disk image) image structures, leading to an exploitable memory corruption condition with potential kernel...
Hackers could try to install malware directly to the kernel using this method as drivers run in kernel space, and the signed driver requirement can be disabled fairly simply. Hackers and virus writers will attempt to get around user defences by...
He told silicon.com: "In the enterprise world the big reason/driver why we'll go to WiMax is this application transparency. I is for i-mode I is for i-mode In an enterprise context, says Edholm, this would mean 'application transparency' - or "that...