Dec 12, 2007 4 am
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Microsoft is giving away copies of Vista Ultimate and Office if you will let the Vole closely monitor how you use the software.
While the more cynical amongst us might think that Vole can’t sell its software and so is giving it away, the deal is part of Microsoft’s Feedback programme.
According to its website, the Feedback Program allows you to connect directly with the Windows product team using your computer.
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Dec 4, 2007 2 am
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Tens of thousands of Britons’ financial details are sold on the internet
Security breaches that are allowing the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons to be sold on the internet are to be investigated by the country’s information watchdog.
Without paying a single penny, The Times downloaded banking information belonging to 32 people, including a High Court deputy judge and a managing director. The private account numbers, PINs and security codes were offered as tasters by illegal hacking sites in the hope that purchases would follow.
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Oct 8, 2007 11 pm
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying Google reads customer email as part of a failed bid to drive ad-based revenue.
The software giant’s chief made the remarks during a discussion about consumer software revenue models, and Ballmer used the dialogue as an entry point to take his shot at Google. The video is available to watch via the web site Mydeo.com. Ballmer made his remarks after an audience member asked him if an advertising model could support software business in the future. The CEO said a combination of models - - commercial and ad-paid - - would go forward.
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Oct 4, 2007 6 pm
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An encrypted drive to be accessed without the boot-up passphrase challenge dialog, leaving data in a vulnerable state.
PGP Corporation’s widely adopted Whole Disk Encryption product apparently has an encryption bypass feature that allows an encrypted drive to be accessed without the boot-up passphrase challenge dialog, leaving data in a vulnerable state if the drive is stolen when the bypass feature is enabled.
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Oct 2, 2007 3 pm
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The TPB team is currently working on a more efficient Open Source tracker system that, among other things, will guarantee better protection against anti-piracy outfits.
Some of you might have noticed that the Pirate Bay trackers were down for a couple of hours today. The reason for the downtime is not related to an anti-piracy organization this time, on the contrary. TPB has moved its servers to a new datacenter and added some extra servers to their already pretty impressive server lineup. The tracker currently runs on 12 servers, and 4 brand new ones will be added later today.
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Sep 27, 2007 1 pm
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Can be used to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.
A proof-of-concept program, by a hacker group “GNUCitizen”, demonstrate the vulnerability, which can be used for malicious purposes.
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Sep 26, 2007 12 pm
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Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to the official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.
The information - which also included user names and email, and possibly their credit card numbers and three-digit CVV2 numbers - was visible for more than an hour to anyone visiting the forum. The miscreants appeared to create a script that caused each user to log in and post information associated with the person who owned the account. The script spit out about 15 posts per minute, starting around 5:45 a.m. California time.
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Sep 25, 2007 5 pm
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Multi security issues are affecting the widely used GMail, Blogspot and Picasa services.
In the past few days, there have been multiple disclosures of security vulnerabilities in a wide range of Google products.
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Sep 24, 2007 2 pm
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Multiple Google-targeted exploits disclosed in the past 3 days could compromise your GMail account, steal your pictures from Picasa or impersonate you on almost 200,000 big sites.
In the past 3 days, 4 interesting disclosures have been published:
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Sep 22, 2007 7 am
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The names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers are leaked onto the LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
Citgroup has confirmed that it’s investigating a data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers leaked by an employee of its ABN Amro Mortgage Group unit onto the LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
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