Infinifilm comes to DVD

A new way of presenting DVD-based material is coming with New Line's infinifilm system. If you already own a DVD player, the best way to describe infinifilm is via the Matrix DVD (I thought most DVD players came with this disc as standard these days) and its White Rabbit section. In that, whenever the viewer reached a point in the film where some supplementary material was available, a small white rabbit would appear on screen signalling the viewer to press the 'Enter' button - and this would open up the extra video footage. ...more

AOL users help stem spam flood

New reporting tools block AOL spam. With a daily average of 22 spam messages per account, AOL is no stranger to spam. Even new CEO John Miller admits that the two are almost synonymous. ...more

Secure Shell found to be not so secure

A number of vendors' versions of the Secure Shell transport layer are open to attack, a company has found. The SSH transport layer is the source of a whole range of security options which are supposed to protect networks from attack. Among the options SSH provides are strong encryption, cryptographic host authentication, and integrity protection. ...more

ICANN can't get the .uk money in

Debt collection is not a problem you would normally associate with Internet regulation bodies. ICANN, however, is facing a dispute over charges for maintaining regional suffixes on its root servers. These root servers effectively function as the master directories of the Internet, so a listing there is essential for browsers to locate sites using suffixes such as . ...more

Second disk image flaw found in OS X

A security vulnerability has been found in OS X, the second flaw related to disk images that has been reported within a matter of days. The latest discovery reports a vulnerability caused by Mac OS X failing to properly handle corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures, such as bad sectors. The flaw can be exploited to cause a system panic and denial of service. ...more