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Posted By: no one May 10 2008, 04:03 PM

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29 April 2008—Quantum cryptography, touted by scientists as the ultimate unbreakable code, may turn out to be susceptible to eavesdropping after all when implemented practically, according to a Swedish duo.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6203?2

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Interpol snares high-profile perv suspect in its Web

Posted By: FortressX May 10 2008, 12:22 AM

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“Live by the sword, die by the sword,” said the Interpol secretary-general. Without the Internet, the suspect “wouldn’t have been able to circulate his sexual abuse on the Internet. But if it hadn’t been for the Internet, we wouldn’t have been able to catch this guy.”

Story Here.

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Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia Hard Drive

Posted By: Haroldo May 10 2008, 12:15 AM

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Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia Hard Drive

Friday, May 09, 2008

Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes.

Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.

"When we got it, it was two hunks of metal stuck together. We couldn't even te ... [more]

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Woman Helps Cops Find Men Who Stole Her Laptop

Posted By: Haroldo May 9 2008, 06:16 PM

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Woman Helps Cops Find Men Who Stole Her Laptop

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and give the photos to police.

White Plains Police say they used the photos to arrest Edmon Shahikian, 23, of Katonah and 20-year-old Ian Frias of the Bronx Wednesday night. Police say they recovered most of the $5,000 worth of electronics stolen from the woman's White Plains apartment back on Apr ... [more]

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IE8 Security Part II: ActiveX Improvements

Posted By: Donna May 8 2008, 08:38 PM

IE Team describes the ActiveX improvements in IE8 and summarize the existing ActiveX-related security features carried over from earlier browser versions:

Per-User (Non-Admin) ActiveX
ActiveX Opt-In
Per-Site ActiveX
Enforcing Per-Site with ATL SiteLock Technology
Reducing Exploit Risk with DEP/NX, “Killbits,” and Servicing
Working with Users through Manage Add-Ons

More info at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008 ... [more]

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Adobe Security Bulletins

Posted By: Donna May 8 2008, 01:22 PM

APSB08-13 Security Update available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7 and 8
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bull.../apsb08-13.html

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.1 and earlier versions. These vulnerabilities would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe recommends users of Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader install the 8.1.2 update and users of Acrobat ... [more]

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Compromised file in Vietnamese Language Pack for Firefox 2

Posted By: Donna May 8 2008, 09:35 AM

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The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 contains inserted code to load remote content. This code is the result of a virus infection, but does not contain the virus itself. This usually results in the user seeing unwanted ads, but may be used for more malicious actions.

Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy. While we cannot determine the exact number of compromised downloads, there have been 16,667 total downloads of the Vietn ... [more]

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0day treasure hunt: researcher hides IE attack on Web

Posted By: Mainer May 7 2008, 10:48 PM

Security researcher Aviv Raff has published code that would allow someone to take control of a computer running Internet Explorer, but there's a catch. He's not saying exactly where he's hidden the attack.

"Somewhere in my blog, I embedded a proof-of-concept code which exploits this 0day vulnerability," Raff wrote in a Wednesday blog posting. A 0day attack is a previously undisclosed software flaw that has not been fixed by the software maker.

The bug, which affects Internet Explorer 7 and IE 8, could allow an attacker to run unauthorized software on ... [more]

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Avert Medium Threat Advisory -- Fake MP3 malware P2P attacks

Posted By: harrywaldron May 7 2008, 02:11 PM

While this is more applicable to home users, I haven't seen a threat rated as MEDIUM for a while. This one is apparently circulating extensively. It appears to affect folks participating on P2P networks, which are always dangers with respect to malware and copyright ... [more]

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Swen worm pretending as Microsoft's May 2008 security update

Posted By: Donna May 6 2008, 07:50 PM

Swen worm is on the loose again and it is pretending to be a security update for May 2008 by Microsoft:

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The email includes Q231448.exe file as attachment.

Good news is antivirus software will detect the infected attachment since it's a known worm but users should make sure that their anti ... [more]

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