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Can you trust Chinese computer equipment?

China may not only be breaking into Google's network, but giving people deliberately bugged technology gear. http://www.itworld.c...ter-equipment?m

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Internet HoneyGrid reveals 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

Websense Security Labs has published its bi-annual State of Internet Security report and, as usual, it makes for pretty interesting if somewhat scary reading. http://www.daniweb.c...tory258407.html

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Mozilla yanks infected add-ons, warns users

Mozilla yanks infected add-ons, warns users by Seth Rosenblatt Mozilla on Friday pulled two programs from its Firefox browser add-on site for containing malware. Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan horse code aimed at Windows users. In a blog post, Mozilla stated that the Master Filer add-on was able to bypass AMO's security tests. Mozilla user CatThief discovered the threat, it said. And when Mozilla added two more security c...

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Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe

Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe Money laundering with a poker face By Robert Blincoe 5th February 2010 The security services are running 23 ongoing investigations into the exploitation of gambling websites to finance terrorism. The revelation shows the online gaming industry is still vulnerable, and a prime target for criminals and terrorists, even after being at the centre of the conviction of the man described as the "godfather of cyber-terrorism for al-Qaida" a...

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-894-1

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-894-1 February 05, 2010 linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities CVE-2009-4020, CVE-2009-4021, CVE-2009-4031, CVE-2009-4138, CVE-2009-4141, CVE-2009-4308, CVE-2009-4536, CVE-2009-4538, CVE-2010-0003, CVE-2010-0006, CVE-2010-0007, CVE-2010-0291 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ub...

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ISPs Look To Bundled Music Services To Keep You Around

According to Billboard Magazine, the average broadband ISP loses about 1.4% of their customers per month (aka churn), 14.5% annually, or over 2.1 million customers each year. Comcast for example, with their average customer paying $43 per month, stands to lose $1.1 billion lost from churn every year. How do you keep those customers around? http://www.broadband...u-Around-106750

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Authors Guild: We don't want to be the RIAA

The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works, it said Friday. Google and the Authors Guild have struggled to get final approval of a settlement granting Google the right to continue a six-year book-scanning project than has digitized 12 million titles. Objections to that settlement from authors and academics have been heated, and despite revisions, the U.S. Departmen...

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File-sharing crackdown criticised for 'lack of detail'

The government has been urged to give more details on the process that would lead to disconnection of broadband access for unlawful file-sharers, a sanction laid out in the Digital Economy Bill. In a report published on Friday, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) expressed concern at the "lack of detail" given by the bill regarding the process that would lead to broadband users having their connections suspended or having other technical measures imposed, saying this made it ...

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Mozilla ends Firefox support for Mac OS Tiger

Calls Mac OS X 10.4 'hindrance' to development; Apple's already dumped Tiger Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox. Mozilla stopped supporting Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, in September 2009, but left a large amount of Tiger bits in the development code. Now, said Josh Aas, a platform engineer for Mozilla who works on Mac OS X integration, it's time to either restore support for the five-yea...

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Cisco's handholds hackers to backdoor

An internet security expert at IBM reported to the Black Hat conference that he discovered Cisco routers are vulnerable to a potential surveillance backdoor. According to Arstechnica, Tom Cross, security systems researcher at IBM, gave a presentation exposing the backdoor to demonstrate how the 'lawful intercept' function in Cisco's system can be targeted by hackers to gain access to data flowing through the routers. Hackers aren't blocked after failed attempts to access a C...

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