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EDITOR’S CHOICE
This Is Bolton - Declan was given a hero’s welcome at school on Monday morning, when his classmates gave him a round of applause during assembly after hearing about his life-saving exploits. Headteacher Jim Holihan said: “He’s a good lad and we are all proud of him

Severna Park scientist tangles with python in new television program
HometownAnnapolis.com - The scientist’s exploits with a python in Indonesia will be broadcast at 10 p.m. Sunday on the National Geographic Channel’s “Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr.” Last night, Dr. Barr appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” where actress Jaime

Hackers eye open source coding tools
Personal Computer World - The use of open source coding tools have opened the doors to “possible system-wide exploits”, according to Fortify. If an attacker compromises either the server that hosts a component, or the DNS server that the build machine uses to locate that

Hacker exploits forgotten eBay administrative system
Ars Technica - A hacker infiltrated an eBay server and disabled accounts of several members on Friday. Representatives of eBay say that the hacker used vestigial components of an old eBay administrative system that has long been unused. The code exploited by the

Excerpts from editorials in Florida newspapers
Miami Herald - After attempts to stoke revolution in Africa, Guevara returned to South America, hoping for a replay of his exploits in Cuba. It didn’t work out that way, and the failure cost him his life. However, his untimely death brought him immortality. Today

Did hackers post lewd message on Liberal Party website?
News.com.au - The hack appears to be a HTML injection attack, whereby the hacker exploits a security flaw in the site structure to alter the content displayed to the user. It can be a precursor to more malicious Cross-Site Scripting, or “XSS” attacks, which allow

Ad-Aware SE Personal
PC World - Harder to test was the program’s new ability to seek and delete rootkits and other threats that burrow deep into your PC. For that, I take Lavasoft’s word when it says earlier versions of Ad-Aware weren’t equipped to handle today’s threats. Also new

When’s a Rootkit Not a Rootkit? In Search of Definitions
eWeek - I think that when we talk about security we need to be clearer about the difference between malicious [or dangerous] rootkits and cloaking technologies, which can’t be exploited by malware,” Kaspersky added. But Russinovich is standing his ground. On

Explaining the Crackdown on Student Downloading
Inside Higher Ed - As many in the higher education community are well aware from news coverage here and elsewhere, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on behalf of its member labels, recently initiated a new process for lawsuits against computer users

Record exec: Storing music on PC illegal
WorldNetDaily - On the No Rock and Roll Fun website, a blogger noted that Pariser “represents a label which was found guilty of rigging prices in the U.S., and which installed rootkits on its customers PCs.” “You might think she’d better off looking to that sort

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Stocks On The Move: Time Warner, CME Group .
CNBC - The ETF that tracks small caps exploded Monday, following big brother DOW up the charts amid increased deal activity. Pete Najarian suggests IWM won t be a part of the large cap rally. BorgWarner (BWA) popped 4%. This auto parts maker pumped on

Federico Biancuzzi: Virtualized rootkits - Part 2
Virtualized rootkits - Part 2