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WordPress Hacked: Anyone Can View Future/Draft Posts

admin @ December 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet

There is a bug in WordPress right now that is rather critical for anyone who uploads posts without immediately publishing. Simply by manipulating the URL any visitor can view all future, draft, or pending posts. Our site was vulnerable to this issue, but we patched it quickly because it could be used to retrieve the […]

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End of Support for Netscape web browsers

admin @ December 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet

AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the […]

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Australian UFO Sighted and Captured

admin @ December 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Well, it certainly looks like one and almost behaves like any real UFO — except we have identified it.We are talking about an exciting development at Entecho here in Australia where they are working on the Hoverpod, a manned aerial vehicle that not only can hover but also fly up to 3000 m at speeds […]

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Introducing Weave

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Introducing Weave
We’re now launching a new project within Mozilla Labs to formally explore this integration. This project will be known as Weave and it will focus on finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for developers to build innovative online experiences.
Just like Mozilla enables […]

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Top US military research labs infiltrated by hackers

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Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation’s leading military research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no classified information was retrieved, but admits that the perpetrators managed to acquire a database containing personal information about ORNL visitors […]

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Hackers launch major attack on US military labs

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Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the US’ most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
In what a spokesperson for the Oak Ridge facility described as a “sophisticated cyber attack,” it appears that intruders accessed a database […]

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Hackers Ram Through Security at Oak Ridge Lab

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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has warned that its computer systems have been infiltrated by one or more hackers who skirted system’s security to gain access to personal information on the lab’s visitors. The information was then used in a phishing scheme that attempted to convince victims to open a malicious e-mail attachment. The lab […]

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Stolen laptop had IDs on 268,000 Minnesota blood donors

admin @ December 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet

A laptop stolen during a recent blood drive contained sensitive information on 268,000 Minnesota-region blood donors, Memorial Blood Centers said Wednesday.
The laptop was in a briefcase that was stolen just before 7 a.m. Nov. 28 as workers were setting up a blood drive, said Laura Kaplan, manager of marketing and communications with the blood center. […]

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