A funny little man writes “The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update. The most exciting new feature provides the ability to encrypt an entire drive, prompting the …
Just one day after hackers showed how to exploit a number of flaws in the ActiveX software used by Internet Explorer, Symantec has spotted online criminals using one of the attacks.
The attack, which was first observed in the last few hours, is not widespread at present. Symantec Security Response Director Oliver Friedrichs said Tuesday that the company had identified just three Web sites that were hosting the attack code, all of which seem to be linked to the same criminals. But he believes that more attacks are inevitable as the bad guys work the code into their malicious toolkits of software. “Given the fact that the proof of concept is available and works, …
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Attackers zero in on Yahoo Jukebox\’s ActiveX flaw
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In the unlikeliest of unions since Julia and Lyle, we bring you some hot iPhone on N95 symbiotic action. Using the free JoikuSpot application released this morning, you can now turn any S60 smartphone into a WiFi hotspot. Yes, …
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3G + N95 + JoikuSpot + WiFi + iPhone = 3G iPhone (the hard way)
Ponca City, We Love You writes “Toddlers’ brains can effortlessly do what the most powerful computers with the most sophisticated software cannot: learn language simply by hearing it used. A ground-breaking new theory postulates that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by data-mining. Researchers Linda Smith and Chen Yu attempted to teach 28 children, 12 to 14 months old, six words by showing them two objects at a time …
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Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Bidding stalls again on key U.S. wireless airwaves