28th March 2009 Archive

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• Researchers poke holes in super duper SSL

  Spoofing the unspoofable

  Websites that use an enhanced form of digital authentication remain just as vulnerable to a common form of spoofing attack as those that use less costly certificates, two researchers have found. Previously, so-called extended validation secure sockets layer certificates (or EV SSL) were believed to be immune to man-in-the- …

  Enterprise Security 28 Mar 00:05

• Fable creator: How DLC ruined my summer vacation

  GDC 09 Big Lionhead battles ahead

  Acclaimed inventive game designer Peter Molyneux was thisclose to dropping the name of his next project at his Game Developers Conference lecture today. Alas, the man caught himself mid-sentence while referring to Lionhead Studio's newest project, holding his head and exclaiming "that would have been a nightmare." The …

  Music and Media 28 Mar 00:28

• AMD Atom alternative arrives in BenQ nettop

  The iMac-like nScreen

  AMD's 'Yukon' platform for ultra-thin laptops has found a home in a... desktop, courtesy of BenQ. BenQ's nScreen: AMD's Atom alternative on board BenQ's all-in-one iMac-alike nScreen i91, which was announced last month, has finally arrived in Asia, local reports reveal, and it contains two key Yukon parts: the Sempron 210U …

  Reg Hardware 28 Mar 08:02

• Discovery back on terra firma

  Shuttle safely home

  Space shuttle Discovery landed (see pic) this evening at Kennedy Space Centre marking the end of its STS-119 mission to the ISS. Returning to Earth were commander Lee Archambault, pilot Tony Antonelli, mission specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold plus former ISS resident Sandy Magnus. The …

  Space 28 Mar 19:30