Analysis Developer: Silverlight Has the Exact Same Vulnerability That WebGL Does Last week Microsoft issued a blog post stating that Internet Explorer will not support WebGL because WebGL is inherently insecure. The post was based on research conducted by the firm Context, which showed that WebGL could be used for denial of service attacks or use the GPU to run malicious code. Microsoft complained that WebGL is too reliant… Hack Klint Finley View comments
mobile NFC From an "Open" Perspective When talking Near Field Communications (NFC) - the common name for the emerging technology enabling close range device to device interaction - there are two main camps: open NFC and secure NFC. Open NFC refers to the interaction of two NFC-enabled devices or the use of an NFC device to read an NFC tag (a chip embedded in a poster, card or other… Mobile Jeremy Belostock View comments
International Bahraini Blogger Gets Life Sentence One blogger in the Gulf country of Bahrain has been sentenced to life in prison while another has received 15 years, according to Reporters Without Borders. The life sentence is the longest sentence a blogger has ever received. Blogger Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace was one of eight imprisoned Bahrainis to receive life sentences. Al-Singace. Another… Curt Hopkins View comments
Networking 5 Questions with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby About His Stealth Startup Bromium Today at the GigaOM Structure event in San Francisco Citrix Data Center and Virtualization CTO Simon Crosby announced that he and Xen founder Ian Pratt are stepping down and starting a new company called Bromium. The company also announced that it closed a series A to the tune of $9.2 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Video Services The Internet Archive's Video Library Goes HTML5 The Internet Archive's entire collection of digital videos will now be available in HTML5 as well as Flash, the organization announced today. The Internet Archive will be using Kaltura's open source video platform in order to deliver the 500,000 some odd digital video assets housed at the Internet Archive. Kaltura's video player identifies… Audrey Watters View comments