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Playboy says hacker stole customer info
News Some customers of the men's magazine's online unit have their personal information, including credit card details, revealed to them--by a hacker.
Microsoft patches Java bug
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Internet Explorer vulnerable to Java security problem
News A new weakness has been discovered in Microsoft's version of the Java technology, one that allows a malicious Java program launched over the Internet to delete a computer's files or take any of a host of equally dangerous actions.
MIT chips away at lithium ion barrier
News American university researchers make battery breakthrough, which could mean good news for electric automakers and impatient cell phone users.
Tags: Components, Battery, Chip, car battery, electric vehicle, graduate student, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, barrier
Mobile: The holy grail at security conference
News Security experts launch successful exploits against browsers at the CanSecWest conference, but fail--or fail to even try--exploiting smartphones despite a US$10,000 prize.
Tags: Hacking, Security, Mobile, Conference, Web Browser, Mobile Device, Symbian Inc., phone, TippingPoint Technologies, Google Android
Netscape founder gives $150 million to Stanford
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Security firm discounts password threat
News Network security company SSH Communications said Friday that it is investigating claims that advanced pattern recognition can be used to weaken the security around an encryption standard used to protect connections between computers.
Security firm discounts password threat
News Network security company SSH Communications said Friday that it is investigating claims that advanced pattern recognition can be used to weaken the security around an encryption standard used to protect connections between computers.
Did Napsterer replace student info with MP3s?
News Police are investigating a breach in computer security that allowed someone to access personal information on more than 2,000 Indiana University graduate students.
Sun: Massive datacenter meltdown to occur in 2008
News A massive datacenter meltdown is expected next year in the United States, and it will hit the IT industry like the first computer worm did, according to a Sun executive.
Gates: PCs fall short
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates chats with Berkeley students about everything from open source to malaria to the next Xbox.
Tags: Consumer Technology
Wikipedia accused of 'US-centric bias'
News An Australian academic claims the online encyclopedia shows bias in its administration of user edits and which sources its allows to be used.
Dutch court allows publication of 'Oyster crack' research
News Court rules that preventing violation of RFID chip security flaw research would violate freedom of expression for Dutch University.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Hacking, RFID, Chip, Card, sensitive information, Spain, professor, researcher
UK scientists demo graphic passwords
News Doodles on touch screens could replace numbers and letters as online passwords. According to their creators, doodles are easier to remember and harder to crack.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Security, Mobile, Microsoft Windows 7, Password, Computer, Touch Screen, software, U.K.
Researchers take debugging to the masses
News Open-source fans long have espoused the idea that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"--but the concept is getting a new twist in a university project.
