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Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets • The RegisterMossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel. The information extracted was used to plan a bombing raid at a suspected nuclear reactor facility in Syria, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The air raid on the partly-constructed ...
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Secret IP Treaty Proposal Rubs Tech WrongThe negotiations over the International Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that concluded another round this week in Seoul, South Korea, prompts watchdog groups to complain to President Obama about Hollywood's influence over the talks and the lack of transparency surrounding the entire negotiations....
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Windows 7 Still Vulnerable to Viruses — Durr, Really? | Gadget Lab | Wired.comWindows 7 is a valuable upgrade delivering an awesome new user interface, but don’t expect any major improvements in security. Anti-virus software vendor Sophos tested Windows 7’s built-in anti-virus capabilities by feeding a clean system 10 pieces of the newest malware. Eight out of the 10 ...
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Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole • The RegisterResearchers say they've uncovered a flaw in the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to inject text into encrypted traffic passing between two endpoints. The vulnerability in the transport layer security protocol allows man-in-the-middle attackers to surreptitiously introduce ...
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Man Sues Over Leaky Baby Monitor | Threat Level | Wired.comAn Illinois man is suing the maker of a video baby monitor after discovering that he and his neighbor could spy on each other through the devices. Wes Denkov filed a proposed class action lawsuit on Friday against Summer Infant and Toys ‘R’ Us over the $99 Summer Infant Day and Night Video ...
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3Bernanke personal bank account struck by ID theft - Yahoo! NewsAnother great (lack of) customer service brought to us by our financial institutions (lack of security). There WERE AND ARE all sorts of security mechanisms that could have been put into place without requiring a drop of blood from users (actual or monetary). But that might have hurt profits!JDP added 2 months ago
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More holes found in Web's SSL security protocolMost of these attacks are an extension of the man in the middle attack designed by Sotirov beginning of this year. They used a known weakness of MD5 to sign forged certificates. Interestingly, the countermeasure was simply to refuse any MD5-signed certificate. At Black hat, they disclosed ...wunderbarb added 2 months ago
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3Microsoft to ship emergency IE, Visual Studio patches | Zero Day | ZDNet.comMicrosoft = micro-security, many small bug steps (back and forth) at a time.JDP added 3 months ago
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Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)Jakob Nielsen is a respected usability guru. Thus, he deserves at least our interest. What do you think about it?wunderbarb added 4 months ago
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3Tele Atlas Uses Data From Drivers to Map Faster by PC World: Yahoo! TechThe New Big Brother, Rule 1 - No digital device will go unmonitored and unused by its makers (and the government). It's just part of the EULA!JDP added 4 months ago
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