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Windows Tip: Enabling weak crypto in Vista
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Security expert cracks RFID chip in U.K. passport
Security expert Adam Laurie, who has worked with RFID and Bluetooth technology, has cracked one of the U.K.'s new biometric passports. The attack, which uses a common RFID reader and customized code, siphoned data off an RFID chip from a passport in a sealed envelope.

Intel may have lost e-mails related to AMD case
Intel Corp. may have lost some internal e-mails that the company is required to produce in a lawsuit brought against it by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., lawyers for the company said Monday.

France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

EMC's DeWalt named new McAfee chief
McAfee's board of directors on Monday named former EMC executive Dave DeWalt as the security software company's CEO and president. DeWalt takes the helm of a company tainted by allegations surrounding backdating of stock options by former executives.

Microsoft hits Google over book search model
In a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), a Microsoft attorney attacks Google's book search service, saying iGoogle is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.

Hurd says HP's cost structure still too high
Despite the turnaround Mark Hurd has engineered at HP, the president, chairman and CEO of the technology giant remains unsatisfied. Hurd said at a Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Monday in San Francisco that the company still has to reduce its cost structure in order to be more profitable and grow.

Intel pitches plan to beat chip glut
Facing a market glut of microprocessors and weak corporate demand for PCs running Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista OS, Intel Corp. hopes to stay profitable by producing new chip designs faster than its competitors, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Monday.

Cisco buys another social-networking firm
Cisco Systems Inc. is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent.


WINDOWS TIP

Enabling weak crypto in Vista
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

If you're planning on deploying Windows Vista on mobile computers that remotely access your company network using a virtual private network (VPN) connection, you must be aware that support for weak or non-standard cryptographic algorithms has now been removed from Windows Vista. This can result in compatibility issues with certain VPN servers and the result is that some clients may not be able to connect to your corporate network after upgrading them to Windows Vista. Here's an explanation from the Windows Vista Resource Kit concerning why this change was implemented, plus a workaround you can use if you can't upgrade your VPN servers or don't have access to high-crypto for regulatory reasons.

Read the full article here.

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Bad idea of the week: Driving while laptoping
One LA resident found out, in the most tragic way possible, that just because you can plug your laptop into your car's cigarette lighter and use it while you drive doesn't mean that you should.

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