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    Cutting Through the Spin of Recent Vulnerability Disclosures 13 October, 2008 11:53

    There are a few highly publicised vulnerabilities at the moment which haven't completely been disclosed and which, it is claimed, could threaten the whole Internet as-we-know-it. Only, when the vulnerabilities are finally disclosed, it seems that the whole incident has been somewhat Chicken Little.
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    Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 10:51

    Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
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    Are international standards organisations no longer incorruptible? 08 October, 2008 13:55

    For the last several months Microsoft has been pushing for their Office Open XML (OOXML) office suite file specification to be accepted as an international standard by ISO, presumably to help them gain traction for future government contracts (look, this file specification is an ISO standard, it must be good).
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    Upcoming PHP 5.3 beefs up security 08 October, 2008 09:09

    PHP security guru Stefan Esser recently posted on some of the changes and important security issues that are likely to have significant effects for the everyday PHP coder (and user) with the release of the upcoming PHP 5.3.
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    Partially disclosing vulnerabilities does no one any good 30 September, 2008 12:00

    What if I was to tell you that I have a secret that could end the Internet as you know it? What if I was only going to tell you at a fee-based conference once speculation had gone on for a month or more? How would you respond to that?
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    Who is behind that Gmail account? 23 September, 2008 14:13

    Who is the real identity behind that Gmail account? While finding out may not be as easy as knowing who is behind chunkylover53@aol.com (Homer Simpson, for the curious), it apparently isn't much harder.
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    The mobile Internet you'll be using in 10 years 22 September, 2008 14:29

    After being plagued with project overruns and a scaling back of the final system, the US military's next generation satellite communications network is another step closer to reality, with completion of the payload module for the third and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite.
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    Sarah Palin demonstrates the peril of webmail 18 September, 2008 12:35

    If you needed any more reminders about why it isn't a good idea to use external mail services to conduct critical business, the recent break-in to US Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's gov.palin@yahoo.com Yahoo inbox should be it. Of note is that following the disclosure of the inboxes the compromised address and another address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, have been suspended.
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    Due diligence works, onenote patch reveals 15 September, 2008 12:26

    Last week Microsoft released MS08-055 [1], patching a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the handling of onenote:// URLs in different versions of Office. What was surprising about the patch is that the vulnerability being fixed only bore a passing resemblance to the one that was notified to Microsoft in March of this year.
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    USAF: Cyberspace represents a fifth, costly, realm of warfare 11 September, 2008 11:50

    Once the USAF Cyber Command was effectively put on ice recently, coverage of the US military's approach to network warfare and defence also went away. The existing infrastructure and systems that had been in place prior to the attempted set up of Cyber Command still continue to operate and the head of US Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton, recently spoke about a range of the issues being faced in operating the US military's lesser-classified networks.
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    Google Fixes Major Weakness in Google Apps 05 September, 2008 13:29

    Something that might have gone unnoticed from Google this week is the patching of a serious vulnerability that previously allowed an attacker to exploit a weakness in Google's Single Sign-On service used with Google Apps to take over a victim's Google account.
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