Monday 03/01/09

Classified data on president's helicopter leaked via P2P Classified information about Marine One, the helicopter now used by President Barack Obama, was reportedly discovered in a publicly available folder on a computer in Tehran, Iran after leaking over a P2P file-sharing network last year. Read more...

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Survey: Most Oracle Shops Don't Mandate Use of Security Patches

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Czech Firm, Cisco Bug Slow Global Internet
March 2, 2009 (Computerworld) A highly unusual network-configuration update by an inexperienced administrator at a small DSL provider in the Czech Republic last Monday choked Cisco Systems Inc. routers around the globe, slowing worldwide Internet performance for about an hour.

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University Admits to Third Recent Breach
March 2, 2009 (Computerworld) The University of Florida in Gainesville late last month disclosed that a breach discovered in January exposed personal data on 97,200 students, faculty and staffers who attended or worked at the school between 1996 and 2009.

The latest breach involved a 20-year-old server that hosted free e-mail services and online course offerings for faculty members, as well as Web sites for fraternities and sororities.

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Downadup worm may hammer Southwest Airlines URL on March 13
Computers infected by the Downadup worm will "phone home" to several legitimate URLs this month, including one owned by Southwest Airlines Co., potentially disrupting those Web sites, a security researcher said Sunday.

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Court: self-incrimination privilege won't protect password
about 7 hours ago - by Julian Sanchez Posted in: Law & Disorder
The privilege against self-incrimination, a federal court has ruled, does not bar prosecutors from forcing a defendant in a child pornography case to decrypt his laptop hard drive—reversing a 2007 decision that found the demand to enter a password equivalent to compelled testimony.
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Obama ditches YouTube after privacy complaints
Responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly moved away from the use of YouTube videos on the president's official home page.
Mon, Mar 02 06:00:00 PST 2009 Read full story

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Technology promises speedier San Diego crossingAP - Fri Feb 27, 6:29 PM ET
SAN DIEGO - New technology at the nation's busiest border crossing can read chip-enabled travel documents up to 30 feet from an inspection booth, promising shorter waits but raising concerns about targeting by computer hackers.

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Avoid Steam Games Scam Sites
Realistic-looking sites promise free games, and instead steal your account.

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Electronic Medical Records Demand Privacy
Google and Microsoft will be accountable as tech companies pushing repositories for online medical records.

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"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids."
- Melinda Gates