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British police closed at least 11 Tesco supermarkets
British police closed at least 11 Tesco supermarkets across the country Saturday because of a security alert, authorities said.
The manager at a Tesco in Barrhead, near Glasgow, told Britain’s Press Association that staff were sent home around 12:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) after a power failure. But an unidentified […]
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In fairness, I have not used the trial version of Office-2007. But, after my experience with the trial version of Office-2003, I would touch it with a ten foot pole. Please make sure your friends don’t touch it either.
Slashdot | Warning On Office 2007 “Try-Before-You-Buy”
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Did ya know? It’s Fair Use Day: July 11, 2007
July 11, 2007, will mark the third-annual global “Fair Use Day,” but chances are this is the first you’ve heard of it. Started back in 2005, “Fair Use Day” (project website) was created by Eric Clifford to raise awareness of the shifting balance in copyright laws […]
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Googling “how to crack a safe” nets robbers $12,000
These burglars may not have been the sharpest tacks in the box to begin with; they attempted to cover a security camera lens not with spray paint or some other opaque agent, but the clear, cleaning properties of WD-40, and attempted to do the same to a […]
admin @ July 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Security company launches eBay for bugs
WabiSabiLabi argues that the computer industry’s ethical disclosure policies have led to a raw deal for security researchers, who typically are not paid for disclosing vulnerabilities. “Nobody in the pharmaceutical industry is blackmailing researchers (or the companies that are financing the research), to force them to release the results for […]
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Hotlan Trojan defeats captcha
A new Trojan horse that sends spam through Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts has antivirus companies worried that the commonly used “captcha” system, used to prove new members are real people, may have been compromised.
Captcha systems typically use a selection of alphanumeric characters that have been distorted and presented in a graphic […]
