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<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359818/intel-reveals-50gbits-sec-interface-but-its-not-light-peak</link>
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<title>Intel\'s 50Gbps Light Peak Successor</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Darien Graham-Smith:
Intel has unveiled yet another high-speed optical interface - before its long-awaited Light Peak connector has even reached the market.

The Light Peak optical interconnect can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions, and is touted as an all-in-one replacement for USB, DisplayPort and HDMI.

Intel has demonstrated working Light Peak models twice this year, as the technology moves ever closer to launch. But today it pulled a surprise by announcing an even faster potential successor to Light Peak.]]></description>
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<title>Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Neil Hughes:
According to The Associated Press, the government approved a handful of new exemptions  to a federal law that prevents the circumvention of technical measure that prevent users from accessing and modifying copyrighted works. The report noted that every three years, the Library of Congress&#039; Copyright Office authorizes exemptions to ensure existing law does not prevent non-infringing use of copyrighted material.

In addition, another exemption was approved that would allow all cell phone users to unlock their device for use on an unapproved carrier. Currently, Apple&#039;s iPhone is available exclusively through AT&amp;amp;T, but unlocking it can allow for voice calls and EDGE data speeds on rival carrier T-Mobile.]]></description>
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<title>Al Franken\'s Warning On Net Neutrality</title>
<description><![CDATA[Posted by Stephanie Condon:
The liberal base is dissatisfied with the Democratic establishment, but Sen. Al Franken told them at the closing of the Netroots Nation conference: &amp;quot;No matter how frustrated you are, you can&#039;t check out now.&amp;quot;
Throughout the Netroots conference, the year&#039;s largest gathering of progressive activists and bloggers, attendees lamented the lack of a public option in health care reform, the prospect of watching Democrats scale back Social Security and other liberal let downs. 
&amp;quot;It only took a few years for progressives to establish a foothold in Congress, but it&#039;s going to take a little further&amp;quot; to enact a progressive agenda, he said. ]]></description>
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<title>Apple grants ABC unprecedented access to its secretive &quot;black labs&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Yoni Heisler:
Apple, in an attempt to dispel theories that the iPhone 4 wasn&#039;t thoroughly tested, put up a new section on its website which explains the rigorous testing  Apple puts the iPhone through before it hits the market. More recently, ABC Nightline correspondent Bill Weir was offered unprecedented access to Apple&#039;s secret wireless testing labs, an area reportedly referred to as the &amp;quot;black labs&amp;quot; by Apple employees.]]></description>
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<title>Online Banking Trojan Stole Money From Belgians</title>
<description><![CDATA[By hbvl.be:
The Belgian court has found an international network that steals money from current accounts through the Internet and is piped to eastern Europe. Most victims are not even aware that money was taken from their account.
In the spring of 2007, the highly secure online banking for KBC, Dexia and Argenta was cracked by criminals.  An international study was put into place, with the federal prosecutor appealing to the investigators of the national computer unit of the federal police. ]]></description>
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<link>http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/AirTight-Security-Researcher-Uncovers-Wi-Fi-Vulnerability-WPA2-Hole196-Demos-Planned-1294303.htm</link>
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<title>Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Marketwire:
AirTight Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention systems and services (WIPS) announced today that senior wireless security researcher, Md Sohail Ahmad has uncovered just how easy it is to hack into an encrypted wireless network without breaking the encryption key. A documented, yet little known, vulnerability of the Wi-Fi WPA2 security protocol, which AirTight has named &#039;Hole 196,&#039; exposes secured wireless networks to a key &amp;quot;loophole&amp;quot; that allows authorized users to bypass private key encryption and authentication. AirTight researcher, Md. Sohail Ahmad, will be demonstrating this vulnerability at the Black Hat Arsenal and at DEFCON18 in a presentation entitled &amp;quot;WPA Too?!&amp;quot; in Las Vegas on July 29th and July 31st respectively.

Additional information on Ahmad&#039;s presentation is available at http://airtightnetworks.com/WPA2-Hole196 and AirTight will present a public Webinar after the conferences on August 4 to detail its findings. Those wishing to register for the Webinar, may do so on that page.]]></description>
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<link>http://blogs.computerworld.com/16579/horrible_safari_privacy_bug_take_action_now</link>
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<title>Horrible Safari privacy bug: take action now</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Richi Jennings:
If you use the Safari web browser, listen up. Your browser may be leaking your private information to any website you visit. Let&#039;s take a look, in The Long View...

Jeremiah Grossman, the CTO of WhiteHat Security, has discovered some very bad news for Safari users. Here&#039;s his shtick:]]></description>
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<title>Dell Ships Infected Motherboards</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Paul Marks:
Further information posted on Dell&#039;s community forum reveals that the trojan in the affected motherboards is stored in onboard flash memory rather than firmware ROMs. And the malware at issue is called w32.spybot.worm, which normally spreads using file-sharing networks and an internet chat client.

&amp;quot;The worm was discovered in flash storage on the motherboard during Dell testing. The malware does not reside in the firmware,&amp;quot; says a Dell technician on the forum.

Because the trojan executes under Windows, infections can be cleaned out by antivirus software. Whether such software can clean up the motherboard flash infection is unclear, as such software usually scrubs only hard drives and - optionally - USB memory sticks. But Dell is replacing all affected boards in any case.

Overnight, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of server platforms at Dell, emailed this update on the affair:]]></description>
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<title>Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens US Security</title>
<description><![CDATA[by Tom Gjelten:
There may be no country on the planet more vulnerable to a massive cyberattack than the United States, where financial, transportation, telecommunications and even military operations are now deeply dependent on data networking.
What&#039;s worse: US security officials say the country&#039;s cyberdefenses are not up to the challenge. In part, it&#039;s due to a severe shortage of computer security specialists and engineers with the skills and knowledge necessary to do battle against would-be adversaries. The protection of US computer systems essentially requires an army of cyberwarriors, but the recruitment of that force is suffering.]]></description>
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<title>BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Steven Mufson:
Apparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks.

A blogger has noticed that the oil giant altered a photograph of its Houston crisis room, cutting and pasting three underwater images into a wall of video feeds from remotely operated undersea vehicles. The altered photo is displayed prominently on the company&#039;s Web site.

An enlarged version of the photograph reveals flaws in the editing job. One of the 10 images sticks down into the head of one of the people sitting in front of the wall, while another piece of the image is separated from the other side of the head by jagged white space. The right side of the same image also hangs down below the area on which the video feeds were projected.

John Aravosis pointed out the alterations Monday evening on his Americablog.com and observed, &amp;quot;I guess if you&#039;re doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center.&amp;quot; The photo doctoring comes as BP has promised transparency in a bid to regain the public&#039;s trust. ]]></description>
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