Western Digital Corp. launched the My Passport Essential portable storage hard drive product line, which it said includes support for Microsoft Vista and embedded search capabilities.
The company said that the drive offers full compatibility with Vista, Exchange 2007 and Office 2007, allowing simple transfers of business and personal data over from Windows PCs to My Passport Essential.
The 320GB disk drives are currently available for $199.99, said Western Digital. The My Passport Essential hard drive family also includes 160GB and 250GB models, the company added.
The new hard drive line will eventually replace the company's WD Passport drives, a spokesman said. He declined to elaborate further on the plans for the older line, except to say that it will coexist with the new drive "for months."
Weighing less than 5 oz., My Passport Essential draws its power from a PC USB port, which eliminates the need for a separate power adapter. The drive runs enhanced Windows-based synchronization and encryption software, enabling data to be transferred between home and work locations on PCs running Windows 2000, XP and Vista, as well as Mac OS X.
Jan 30, 2008
Western Digital unveils new 320GB portable drive
Mozilla ups Firefox bug threat, slates fix for Feb. 5
Mozilla Corp. bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to "high" Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now slated for release on Feb. 5.
The company's head of security, Window Snyder, confirmed that the browser, when running any of more than 600 add-ons, can be exploited to steal "session information, including session cookies and session history."
Snyder's acknowledgment followed an update by Gerry Eisenhaur, the researcher who first reported the Firefox problem. "There seems to be some confusion about what exactly the severity of this vulnerability is," Eisenhaur said on his hiredhacker.com blog. "This is not a chrome privilege escalation, but it [is] worse than just leaking some variables. I created another demo to read the sessionstore.js file. This will display information regarding your current session, [including] windows, tabs, cookies, etc."
Last week, when Eisenhaur broached the subject, Mozilla rated the threat as only "low," but began working on a patch. Yesterday, Snyder said a patch would be included with Firefox 2.0.0.12, a security update currently scheduled for a Feb. 5 release.
"Firefox is not vulnerable by default," Snyder added Tuesday. "Only users that have installed 'flat' packed add-ons are at risk."
Her caveat may be a moot point for most Firefox users, however, since such add-ons are legion. For example, a partial list posted on Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug management database, runs to more than 600 Firefox extensions, including YouTube-It and Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer. Snyder urged add-on authors to update their extensions by packaging them as .jar (Java Archive) files to make them immune to the vulnerability.
Alternately, Firefox users can install the popular NoScript extension to block exploits, regardless of which add-ons have been installed.
Macbook Air (The World's Thinnest Notebook)
Apple launched their newest notebook. With name Macbook Air.
MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.
MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. But you don’t lose inches and pounds overnight. It’s the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a new standard.
Windows and Dell are proud partners of (PRODUCT) RED™
New PCs designed to help eliminate AIDS in Africa
Windows and Dell have joined (RED) to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. When you buy a Dell (PRODUCT) RED PC with Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED, Windows and Dell will jointly contribute $50 to $80, depending on the product, to The Global Fund. With Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED, these aren’t just the ultimate PCs, they’re a powerful way to improve lives. $80 could buy six months of antiretroviral treatment for one person living with AIDS in Africa.
