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Hacked Climate Emails Stoke Debate
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/Ltx1dUIvKyA/Hacked-Climate-Emails-Stoke-Debate
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a series of hacked emails and documents that were recently posted on Wikileaks are causing quite a stir in the scientific community. All told, more than 1,000 emails and 2,000 documents were stolen from the Climate Research Unit in East Anglia University in the U.K. "The emails include discussions of apparent efforts to make sure that reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that monitors climate science, include their own views and exclude others. In addition, emails show that climate scientists declined to make their data available to scientists whose views they disagreed with. [] Phil Jones, the director of the East Anglia climate center, suggested to climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University that skeptics' research was unwelcome: We 'will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!' Neither man could be reached for comment Sunday."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/1716235/Hacked-Climate-Emails-Stoke-Debate?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/23/1716235"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/1716235/Hacked-Climate-Emails-Stoke-Debate?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/_IvD9Bm6QBs/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control
MeatballCB writes "Hey folks. Being the 'technical' guy of the family, I often get calls from friends and family members when they're having PC issues. Most of these folks are not technical, so trying to troubleshoot problems over the phone can often be a challenge. Anyone know of a simple-to-use and (preferably) free service that would allow for remote viewing/control of their PCs? I know there's WebEx and GoToMyPC, but I hate to pay for something I'd use once every two months. I also know about VNC, but trying to walk someone through opening up ports on their router that thinks their Internet is broken when their homepage gets changed is not realistic. Anyone know of anything that would be easy to set up and use?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2037219/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/22/2037219"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2037219/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/XrKNhDkFT7c/New-Attack-Fells-Internet-Explorer
alphadogg writes "Attack code has been identified that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it could be used to install unauthorized software on a victim's computer."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/1419255/New-Attack-Fells-Internet-Explorer?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/22/1419255"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/1419255/New-Attack-Fells-Internet-Explorer?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Fnje7xHmPBjDo5v2IhDNDPXZmhA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Fnje7xHmPBjDo5v2IhDNDPXZmhA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/XrKNhDkFT7c" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2009-11-22T15:33:00+00:00msietricking-an-old-dogtechnology191191,184,146,111,31,14,10http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/1419255/New-Attack-Fells-Internet-Explorer?from=rssBrazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/k8ffRJ0-IRM/Brazilian-Breaks-Secrecy-of-Brazils-E-Voting-Machines-With-Van-Eck-Phreaking
After the report last week that Brazil's e-voting machines had withstood the scrutiny of a team of invited hackers, reader ateu writes with news that a hacker has shown that the Linux-based voting machines aren't perfectly safe; he was able to eavesdrop on them (translated from Portuguese) by means of Van Eck phreaking.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/027229/Brazilian-Breaks-Secrecy-of-Brazils-E-Voting-Machines-With-Van-Eck-Phreaking?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/22/027229"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/027229/Brazilian-Breaks-Secrecy-of-Brazils-E-Voting-Machines-With-Van-Eck-Phreaking?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/-FbKI1vZgds/Best-Practices-For-Infrastructure-Upgrade
An anonymous reader writes "I was put in charge of an aging IT infrastructure that needs a serious overhaul. Current services include the usual suspects, i.e. www, ftp, email, dns, firewall, DHCP — and some more. In most cases, each service runs on its own hardware, some of them for the last seven years straight. The machines still can (mostly) handle the load that ~150 people in multiple offices put on them, but there's hardly any fallback if any of the services die or an office is disconnected. Now, as the hardware must be replaced, I'd like to buff things up a bit: distributed instances of services (at least one instance per office) and a fallback/load-balancing scheme (either to an instance in another office or a duplicated one within the same). Services running on virtualized servers hosted by a single reasonably-sized machine per office (plus one for testing and a spare) seem to recommend themselves. What's you experience with virtualization of services and implementing fallback/load-balancing schemes? What's Best Practice for an update like this? I'm interested in your success stories and anecdotes, but also pointers and (book) references. Thanks!"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/2234216/Best-Practices-For-Infrastructure-Upgrade?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/2234216"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/2234216/Best-Practices-For-Infrastructure-Upgrade?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/-ns69NzELM8/First-Malicious-iPhone-Worm-In-the-Wild
An anonymous reader writes "After the ikee worm that displayed a picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones, the first malicious iPhone worm (Google translation; original, in Dutch) has now been discovered in the wild. Internet provider XS4ALL in the Netherlands encountered several of such devices (link in Dutch) on the wireless networks of their customers and put out a warning. After obtaining a copy of the malware it was discovered that the jailbroken phones, which are exploited through openSSH with a default password, scan IP ranges of mobile internet providers for other vulnerable iPhones, phone home to a C&C botnet server, are able to update themselves with additional malware and have the ability to dump the SMS database as well. Owners of a jailbroken iPhone with a default root password are advised to flash to the latest Apple firmware in order to ensure no malware is present."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/2023200/First-Malicious-iPhone-Worm-In-the-Wild?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/2023200"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/2023200/First-Malicious-iPhone-Worm-In-the-Wild?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JBx-9gsyRTAyld7TW1mwHAMSAPw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JBx-9gsyRTAyld7TW1mwHAMSAPw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/-ns69NzELM8" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2009-11-21T20:37:00+00:00securitybecause-some-jerks-are-cleverit132132,126,102,81,21,10,6http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/2023200/First-Malicious-iPhone-Worm-In-the-Wild?from=rssCyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/z7ppVddn32w/Cyber-Attacks-On-US-Military-Jump-Sharply-In-2009
angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense systems in the first half of the year. That's a big jump. In all of 2008, there were 54,640 such incidents. If cyber attacks maintain this pace, the yearly increase will be around 60 percent. The full report (PDF) is available online."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0238253/Cyber-Attacks-On-US-Military-Jump-Sharply-In-2009?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0238253"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0238253/Cyber-Attacks-On-US-Military-Jump-Sharply-In-2009?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/ls_qtJaN13s/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning
Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags. Passive tags typically wait for a reader to transmit a signal of the appropriate strength and frequency before sending their own transmission. The scientists found that the amount of power required to trigger this varies quite a bit from one tag to the next, especially when many different frequencies are sampled. This and other physical characteristics give the tag its own "fingerprint" that is independent of the signal information stored in its memory, which the researchers say will facilitate the detection of cloned tags.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0354209/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0354209"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0354209/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/SS_8X9G_Yvw/Zero-Day-Vulnerabilities-In-Firefox-Extensions
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found several security holes in popular Firefox extensions that have an estimated total of 30 million downloads from AMO (the Addons Mozilla community site). Three 0-days were also released. Mozilla doesn't have a security model for extensions and Firefox fully trusts the code of the extensions. There are no security boundaries between extensions and, to make things even worse, an extension can silently modify another extension." The affected extensions are Sage version 1.4.3, InfoRSS 1.1.4.2, and Yoono 6.1.1 (and earlier versions). Clearly the problem is larger than just these three extensions.<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1257232/Zero-Day-Vulnerabilities-In-Firefox-Extensions?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/1257232"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1257232/Zero-Day-Vulnerabilities-In-Firefox-Extensions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/NxJHTJGOrII/Fedora-12-Package-Installation-Policy-Tightened
AdamWill writes "After the controversy over Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, including our discussion this week, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see the official announcement and the development mailing list post for more details."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1241231/Fedora-12-Package-Installation-Policy-Tightened?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/1241231"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1241231/Fedora-12-Package-Installation-Policy-Tightened?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/JCnjPB93_cY/MS-Finds-Security-Flaw-In-Google-Chrome-Frame
Christmas Shopping writes with this excerpt from Kaspersky Labs' threatpost: "Back in September, when Google launched the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users, Microsoft immediately warned that the move would increase the attack surface and make IE users less secure. Now comes word that a security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) has discovered a 'high risk' security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass cross-origin protections." "Google has hurried out a patch," he adds.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/0729246/MS-Finds-Security-Flaw-In-Google-Chrome-Frame?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/0729246"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/0729246/MS-Finds-Security-Flaw-In-Google-Chrome-Frame?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/zNZMqWFKjes/Microsoft-Denies-It-Built-Backdoor-Into-Windows-7
CWmike writes "Microsoft has denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. 'Microsoft has not and will not put "backdoors" into Windows,' a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a Computerworld story Wednesday. On Monday, Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, told the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security that the agency had partnered with the developer during the creation of Windows 7 'to enhance Microsoft's operating system security guide.' Thursday's categorical denial by Microsoft was accompanied by further explanation of exactly how the NSA participated in the making of Windows 7. 'The work being discussed here is purely in conjunction with our Security Compliance Management Toolkit,' said the spokeswoman. The company rolled out the Windows 7 version of the toolkit late last month, shortly after it officially launched the operating system."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/2159242/Microsoft-Denies-It-Built-Backdoor-Into-Windows-7?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/19/2159242"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/2159242/Microsoft-Denies-It-Built-Backdoor-Into-Windows-7?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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An anonymous reader writes "Gamers are used to confronting invading terrorists, nuclear attacks, and natural calamities—in virtual form. But those living in New York State could soon receive warnings about real emergencies through their favorite video console. State authorities are testing a plan that would see the Emergency Management Office issue alerts over online gaming networks in addition to regular channels."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/2042237/New-York-State-Testing-Emergency-Alerts-Over-Gaming-Networks?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/19/2042237"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/2042237/New-York-State-Testing-Emergency-Alerts-Over-Gaming-Networks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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seven of five writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press report: "A problem with the FAA system that collects airlines' flight plans caused widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide Thursday. It was the second time in 15 months that a glitch in the flight plan system caused delays. The FAA said in a statement that it is having a problem processing flight plan information. 'We are investigating the cause of the problem,' the agency said. 'We are processing flight plans manually and expect some delays. We have radar coverage and communications with planes.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/152243/FAA-Computer-Glitch-Causes-Widespread-Airline-Delays?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/19/152243"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/152243/FAA-Computer-Glitch-Causes-Widespread-Airline-Delays?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/yTzwO0b4etQ/Two-Arrested-For-Zbot-Trojan
An anonymous reader writes "Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit have made Europe's first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened to compromise thousands of computers. Officers arrested a man and woman, both aged 20 years, in Manchester for offenses under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act and the 2006 Fraud Act. Both suspects were interviewed by PCeU detectives and have been bailed for further in-depth inquiries to be completed. The arrests in connection with the malware represent some of the first in the world, and the first in Europe to combat the distribution and control of ZeuS."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/2336214/Two-Arrested-For-Zbot-Trojan?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/18/2336214"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/2336214/Two-Arrested-For-Zbot-Trojan?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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