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Lil Wayne - Lil Waynes Daughter Alive Well
Rapper LIL WAYNE's aides are assuring fans that his daughter is alive and well following weekend reports she had been killed in a car accident. Internet rumours ...
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Man hacked
A MINER was hacked when he attempted to stab a bystander who managed to find a bolo during a chase in Sitio Quitolao, Barangay Mahayag, Bunawan District.
Mindanao Times |
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Kingston introduces new USB flash drive
The new drive allows IT administrators and tech support teams at small to medium-sized businesses to quickly restore individual files or folders from a Windows desktop, laptop or server in the event of a system or hardware failure.
Computer Business Review |
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House-for-rent scams turning up online
“House for rent” -- you see the ads on websites like Craigslist.com. But more and more often, those ads are fake. For example, a big, beautiful house for just $1,000 a month in Beaverton. It sounded just perfect to the Hassan family.
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland |
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Occam Networks appoints corporate controller
Mr DePascal has over 30 years of finance and accounting experience in the telecommunications, software, computer storage, e-commerce, semiconductor, and oil services industries.
Computer Business Review |
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Georgia Takes a Beating in the Cyberwar With Russia
Besides the bloody shooting war going on between Georgia and Russia, there’s another, quieter battle going on in cyberspace. The Georgian government is accusing Russia of disabling Georgian Web sites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
New York Times |
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IIJ launches network connection tool for 3.5G mobile data communications
According to Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ), its IIJ Mobile Secure Link is compatible with data communications terminals and providers of 3.5G mobile services. It is also compatible with both wireless and wired LAN environments and VPN connections.
Computer Business Review |
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Sand selects Trustwave to validate PABP for payment terminals
Visa's payment application best practices (PABP) apply to software vendors who develop payment applications that store, process, or transmit cardholder data as part of authorization or settlement.
Computer Business Review |
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Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt of Custom Ads
In the wake of a congressional inquiry into how Internet companies and ISPs track their users' activities, Yahoo on Friday announced that it would it would allow users to opt out of customized advertising by month's end.
PC Magazine |
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Ticketek bungle prompts internet privacy debate
An email sent by concert marketing group Ticketek to its customers has sparked new debate about internet privacy.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Audit finds problems with MoDOT computer security
Associated Press - August 11, 2008 6:14 PM ET JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A state audit identifies problems with the computer system security of the Missouri Department of Transportation.
KOAM-TV Pittsburg |
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Protest group publishes map of GM crop farms
Victorian farms growing genetically modified (GM) crops have been mapped and published on the internet by an anti-GM protest group.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Mimos, German institute to jointly tackle cybercrime
SHAH ALAM: Mimos has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Ruhr-University Bochum of Germany to conduct joint research into ways to reduce phishing, pharming, viruses, hacking and other types of cybercrime.
The Star |
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New OpenGL standard fails to delight
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 01:59:00 Shot in the arm for Microsoft’s DirectX The Khronos Group, a consortium of companies that manages the OpenGL graphics standard, has finally released the specification for OpenGL 3.0, and developers are not impressed....
vnunet.com |
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Janet Carlson: My Trip to Google's HQ
The vending machine at the Google Headquarters charges more for foods containing unhealthy ingredients. How California is that?
HuffingtonPost |
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Gmail Suffers Outage, World Ends
A glitch in Google's servers caused widespread outages to its popular Gmail service Monday afternoon, stranding hordes of users by denying them access to their e-mail accounts.
Wired News |
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Laptop with traveler info likely stolen, returned
A laptop computer containing personal information from 33,000 travelers who applied to a program for bypassing airport
KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul |
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Google resolves Gmail access problems
Google Inc. said Monday it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail.
Canada.com |
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Sheriff: Clear program laptop at SFO was stolen
A laptop containing the personal information of 33,000 applicants to a program that allows air travelers to bypass airport security lines was likely stolen then returned, not just misplaced for more than a week, investigators said Monday.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Probe continues into laptop mystery
Associated Press - August 11, 2008 8:23 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Federal investigators now think a government laptop that disappeared last week at San Francisco International Airport was...
KHQ Spokane |
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Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
Earlier today I published a lengthy blog post questioning some of the sensationalist conclusions raised in press coverage of a paper presented by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd at last week's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. This afternoon, I received an e-mail from Sotirov, who says he was "horrified...
ZDNet |
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. If you want to know about the latest malicious rootkit, ask security researcher Dino Dai Zovi . He'll tell you all about his proof of concept rootkit called Vitriol that uses virtual machine instructions in Intel processors to hide a rootkit at the ...
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Installed by user action, such as clicking phish links or hitting bad Web pages. Often include escalation of privileges to gain deeper access to the kernel.
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London News and Reviews
Barack Obama will reveal his potential vice president in an email and text message to supporters, his campaign team has said. The U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful will send out the messages to supporters as soon as the decision is made.
Evening Standard |
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A Hotelier's Online Plan in a Slowing Economy
PARSIPPANY , NJ , August 12, 2008 –In today’s economy, one has to be careful about how to spend their money wisely, and this is especially true in the hotel industry. Hoteliers invest their money in marketing to bring in more guests, but in a tough economy, business slows down. So how is it possible for us to thrive, despite slow business? The answer is: keep marketing, and don’t slow down. This ...
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