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There’s nothing more entertaining than a bunch of ticked off Germans. The melodrama, the propaganda, the beer-fueled outrage spilling into their lederhosen; the last time Germany sounded this upset they oh, never mind. Maybe the chants of “Datenkrake!” spawning from Google’s beta release of Chrome should be taken seriously after all.
Germany Shrieks At Google Datenkrake!
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The head of the CIA doesn’t want you to know what he watches on TV. So-called “open source” intelligence — tidbits taken from newspapers, internet postings, and TV shows — may come from unclassified material, but the CIA chef says the finished products are too sensitive for average folks to see.
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Online troublemakers known as “Anonymous” crack Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account and posted portions on the web Wednesday.
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The American military and intelligence communities are increasingly
worried that would-be bin Ladens might gather in a virtual world, to
plan a real-life attack. Now, a Pentagon researcher has laid out how
such a terror plot might unfold. The planning ground is World of
Warcraft. The main target of this possibly-nuclear strike: the White
House.
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: We're covering the Air Force Association convention this week in DC and we'll keep bringing you updates of cool tech from the show. I thought you'd be interested in the V-22 story, but I can see from the lack of comments it was ho-hum.
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Apple has released Security Update 2008-006 and Mac OS X v10.5.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and related products. The impacts of these vulnerabilities include arbitrary code execution, information disclosure, denial of service, privilege escalation, or DNS cache poisoning.
US-CERT encourages users to review Apple article HT3137 and apply the appropriate updates as [...] Read more »
Apple has released an article to address issues with their recent iTunes 8.0 release. The article indicates that Windows Vista users who have installed iTunes 8.0 may be seeing a blue screen error message when connecting an iPhone or iPod to their computer.
US-CERT encourages users to review Apple article TS2280 and apply one of [...] Read more »
TWiki has released a Security Alert to address a vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to the way TWiki processes the “image” variable in URLs. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the TWiki Security Alert and apply the workaround listed in the [...] Read more »
Apple has released iPhone v2.1 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Application Sandbox, CoreGraphics, mDNSResponder, Networking, Passcode Lock, and Webkit. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks, spoof or hijack TCP sessions, bypass Passcode Lock, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial-of-service condition.
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US-CERT is aware that spam email messages are being sent that appear to come from high-level DHS officials, some of which attempt to entice the user into an advance fee fraud scam. In some cases, the sender’s address has been spoofed so that the email appears to come from a legitimate dhs.gov address.
US-CERT encourages users [...] Read more »
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