There is no better place to people-watch than an airport. And now, with the increasing number of travelers packing laptop computers and surfing the Internet while waiting for flights, it is likely that the people watching you are not in the airport at all, but hiding on the Internet waiting for you to fall into their new trap.
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Firefox 3.0′s first beta has been delayed at least six weeks, says Mozilla engineers, and it now won’t appear until the middle of September.
In a posting to the mozilla.dev.planning group, Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, suggested a revamped milestone schedule for Firefox 3.0, the next major update to the popular open-source browser. Among the changes: a postponement of the first beta, slated as recently as last week to debut July 31. It’s not expected until September 18 at the earliest.
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Hackers discover root password and mobile account password, but are they opening Pandoraâs box?
If you want to know what makes the iPhone tick, thank the hackers whoâve been working tirelessly to discover its secrets. DVD Jon has already posted a workaround to the AT&T activation, which means the device can work â just not as a phone.
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The good news is that image spam continues to subside, now averaging 14.5% of all spam e-mails in June, down from 27% and 37% in the months of April and March respectively, Symantec reported Monday in its July monthly State of Spam report. At its peak in January, image spam accounted for more than half of all spam. The bad news is that this doesn’t mean that image spam is going away, as Symantec is seeing an increase in new spam techniques that reference spam images in different ways.
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The Secret Service’s recent arrest and indictment of four Cuban nationals in Florida for ID theft is evidence that a presidential task force’s recommendations on ID theft are out of touch with reality, said Mari Frank, an expert and former victim of ID theft. That Presidentâs Identity Theft Task Force has recommended federal legislation that would permit companies involved in data breaches determine whether consumers are at risk after a data breach, according to Frank. It would overturn California’s much stricter law, which requires companies to notify everyone whose personally sensitive information was stolen or lost in an electronic breach.
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The Estonian government has approved an action plan to boost its cyber security following a barrage of hacking attacks it blamed on Russia. The new measures aim to improve the IT framework around information security and develop an enhanced cyber defence strategy, which would better prepare the Baltic nation for another hacking attack. The plans also intend to provide Estonia with greater legal powers to fight cyber crime, the government said.
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Named executives and their relatives singled out in criminal attack. A deluge of precisely targeted spam designed to harvest intellectual property from companies worldwide was launched on 26 June, security experts have revealed. More than 500 e-mails were intercepted in a few hours by MessageLabs, a security firm which filters e-mail for around six million inboxes. The company would normally intercept an average of just 10 targeted e-mail attacks a day.
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WabiSabiLabi Ltd, a Swiss company rolled out an interesting website that allows users to buy security vulnerabilities for unpatched software solutions. Although it might sound like some hot goodies for hackers, the owners sustain the flaws can be also bought by the security
companies or even by the parent firms in order to fix the programs. At this time, there are only 4 vulnerabilities for sale with prices between 500 euros and 2000 euros. There are only 2 bids for a Linux kernel memory leak and for an “unpatched SQL Injection vulnerability in MKPortal.”
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A Swiss company launched an eBay-like marketplace this week for buying and selling zero-day software vulnerabilities. The goal of the WabiSabiLabi (WSLabi) exchange is to reward security researchers without putting valuable information in the hands of criminals, according to a company announcement.
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Microsoft has been quietly adding to the cache of reference applications it hopes will help transform Microsoft Office 2007 from a mere productivity suite to a collaboration tool. Aiming to help users access data from various enterprise sources through the most common Office tools, Microsoft has created add-ons to Office 2007 that it calls Office Business Applications, or OBAs. They add business processes and intelligence to applications such as Excel and Outlook. Last week, the company quietly unveiled an OBA reference application designed for the health-care industry, and the company is gearing up to make OBAs a core focus at its Worldwide Partner Conference, which is being held this week in Denver.
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