24th March 2013 Archive

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• T-Mobile patches Wi-Fi eavesdrop vuln

  Certificate error discovered by Berkeley students

  Last week, T-Mobile scrambled to patch a vulnerability uncovered by two University of California Berkeley students that made its Wi-Fi calling feature susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. At issue in the students' research, published in full here (PDF), is the certificate implementation used in the feature. The now- …

  Security 24 Mar 21:55

• Icahn and Blackstone to take separate runs at Dell

  Time for Big Mike to pull an EMC and spin out Dell 2.0 cloudy biz

  Those who wonder just how much Michael Dell wants to take control of the struggling IT giant that bears his name don't have long to wait. Private equity firm Blackstone Group and activist investor Carl Icahn are both reported to have tossed in bids to take control of Dell, the company, before the "go-shop" period of the …

  Business 24 Mar 22:46

• Belgian boffins boast after boosting TCP to 50 Gbps

  Multipath demo could ship a Blu-Ray disk in five seconds

  Belgian researchers at ICTEAM have announced a Multipath TCP (MPTCP) demonstration that's routed 50 Gbps of traffic across multiple different paths. While there wouldn't be much to crow about doing this at the physical layer, the ICTEAM researchers have squeezed this performance out of a system that needs to make various kinds …

  Networks 24 Mar 23:25

• Ubuntu support periods slashed

  Non-LTS releases to get only nine months after version 2014's 13.04

  Ubuntu's Technical Board has decided nine months is long enough to support some new releases of its operating system. In an online meeting noticed by Phoronix (and available for all-text IRC replay here), the Board decided that “regular” Ubuntu releases will only receive food, water, warm lodgings and security updates for nine …

  Operating Systems 24 Mar 23:48