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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is raising awareness of a recently discovered vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS). This includes releasing an FAQ and an online tool for domain operators to test their domains.
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Verner a-twitter over bogus posting
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner is looking for the perpetrator behind a bogus Mary Verner account on the popular Web service Twitter. Earlier this week someone created an account in her name and uploaded a photo of her for the Twitter page.
The Spokesman-Review |
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Scales students settle into high-tech learning
Interactive SMART Boards and laptops were put through their first tests this week as the new Scales Technology Academy opened its doors to more than 600 students in grades K-5.
The Arizona Republic |
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EV Energy Partners Schedules Second Quarter 2008 Results Conference Call on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 9 a.m. ET
HOUSTON----EV Energy Partners, L.P. today announced plans to release 2008 second quarter results Monday evening after market close, August 11, 2008. In conjunction with the release, EV Energy Partners has scheduled a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 9 a.m.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Internet flaw a boon to hackers
LAS VEGAS -- Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Microsoft to Open Kimono on Security Patches
In a bid to help the security industry stay a step ahead of cyber crooks, Microsoft will release additional details behind the vulnerabilities it patches each month to anti-virus companies and other large vendors of Windows security software. While Microsoft already provides a brief fact sheet of which components of Windows will be fixed prior to its regular patch releases on the second Tuesday ...
Washington Post |
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Apple Patches DNS Flaw and 16 Other Holes
Apple released updates to fix at least 17 different security holes in its OS X operating system and other software late Thursday, including a patch for the domain name system (DNS) vulnerability that many other affected vendors addressed nearly three weeks ago. Security Update 2008-005 patches a serious flaw in the DNS that could allow hackers to hijack users' Internet connections or silently ...
Washington Post |
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Black Hat Talk on Apple Encryption Flaw Pulled
A security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas next week on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has canceled his talk, citing confidentiality agreements with the Cupertino computer maker. Charles Edge, a researcher from Georgia, had been slated to discuss his research on a weakness that could be used to defeat ...
Washington Post |
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Senate Approves Bill to Fight Cyber-Crime
The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to modernize the nation's computer crime laws and give prosecutors more leeway in pursuing cyber crooks. Under current federal cyber-crime laws prosecutors must show that the illegal activity caused at least $5,000 in damages before they can bring charges for unauthorized access to a computer. Under the bill approved today, that threshold would be ...
Washington Post |
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Exploit Prods Software Firms to Update Their Updaters
A security researcher has released a set of tools that make it simple for attackers to exploit weaknesses in the auto-update feature of many popular software titles. By targeting widely deployed programs such as Java, OpenOffice, Winamp and Winzip, that don't use a digital signature on their product updates, attackers can impersonate those companies and trick users into believing they are ...
Washington Post |
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Three Quarters of Malicious Web Sites Are Hacked
Three-quarters of all Web sites that try to foist malicious software on visitors are legitimate sites that have been hacked, a report released today found. Even worse, most of these compromised sites are social networking communities and some of the Internet's most popular destinations. Those numbers come from stats (PDF) collected in the first six months of this year by Websense, an online ...
Washington Post |
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Catch your latest news updates through Twitter
KREM 2 News and KREM.com have just set up an account through Twitter. The New York Times calls Twitter "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet."
KREM.com Spokane |
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Gmail Gains Two New Security Features
Google this month rolled out two new security features to its free Gmail service. The first should protect users against people who might be lurking on your network trying to snoop or hijack your inbox. The other makes it easy for users to tell if they are signed on in more than one location and then remotely sign that machine out of your account. When you log in to your Gmail account, by typing ...
Washington Post |
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Time Warner profit dips on lower AOL fees
n Company says higher revenues in film unit allow it to affirm forecast
Contra Costa Times |
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Man Gets 4 Years for ID Theft, Software Piracy
A 23-year-old Oregon man was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for using computer viruses to steal financial data from dozens of consumers. Investigators say the man used the information to set up multiple eBay and PayPal accounts, which helped him sell more than $1 million worth of pirated software. Jeremiah Joseph Mondello, of Eugene, Ore., admitted distributing keystroke ...
Washington Post |
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Fortify Your Internet Security Settings Now
The Web became a substantially more dangerous place this week, thanks largely to the publication of instructions that show cyber criminals how to exploit a pervasive, critical flaw in the Internet infrastructure. While Internet service providers and corporations can mitigate the danger by updating the software that powers vulnerable components of their networks, data released yesterday indicates ...
Washington Post |
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Yale students name man who allegedly defamed them
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Two female students at Yale Law School who say anonymous, defamatory comments were made about them on the Internet identified one of the defendants in their federal...
KRIS-TV Corpus Christi |
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Firefox 3 Follows IE7's Security Settings
Firefox 3 users, who also have jacked up the security settings on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level, may find it trickier to download files with Firefox due to key changes recently made by Mozilla. In a Security Fix Live chat last Friday, a reader complained he or she couldn't download any file in Firefox unless she reduced the security settings in IE7. "I usually ...
Washington Post |
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Study: Site Redirects Abundant, Aid Phishers
An examination of nearly 2.5 million Web pages at some of the Internet's most popular and trusted sites turned up at least 128,000 links that could be manipulated by fraudsters and virus writers to make online scams more believable, a study released this month found. Scammers and phishers are taking advantage of commonly used coding used in "redirects" to divert traffic from reputable Web site ...
Washington Post |
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
Arab News |
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Note to privacy advocates: good luck
Privacy advocates have an ax to grind with Google for helping to move more of our lives into the public realm. But there's a long list of others in the same camp.
CNET |
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Internet flaw a boon to hackers
Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Hackers steal details from 40 million credit cards in 'world's biggest ever' identity theft
Eleven members of a gang have been charged with hacking into the computer systems of leading retailers, including one in Britain, to steal more than 45 million credit card numbers.
Daily Mail |
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Police reports
The following are excerpts from the Walnut Creek Police Department log:Monday, July 14THEFT — Two laptops were reportedly stolen from a building that was under construction between July 12 and July 13 in the 100 block of North Civic Drive.
Contra Costa Times |
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Recycling seen as money saver
BISBEE — There are strong reasons for developing a countywide recycling program.
The Daily Dispatch |
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