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Submission + - Man Wrestles Shark

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john g the 4th

on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:00AM

john g the 4th writes: "In a stunning display of Alcohol vs. Common Sense an Australian fisherman took it upon himself to wrestle a shark after a good bit of drinking. From the article:

"He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Kerkhof said.
The shark that Kerkhof decided to tangle with was a bronze whaler shark which is no push over. Kerkhof walked away unscathed, and a bit wiser."

Submission + - 2 JavaScript holes (with exploits) this week

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:53AM

An anonymous reader writes: Double strike this week for Michal Zalewski, who published JavaScript based exploits for two new web browser vulnerabilities. The one disclosed on Monday allows attacker to read sensitive local files on your computer without your explicit permission, and affects both IE 7 and Firefox 2.0.0.1. The other one allows malicious websites to manipulate authentication cookies for third-party sites, and to possibly do other nasty things as well. A patch for the latter bug, notified to Mozilla on Wednesday, has already been developed and will likely be available in a 2.0.0.2 security upgrade. Obviously enough, users of the NoScript Firefox extension are immune from both these attack vectors.

Submission + - Hacks no longer joking matter at MIT

Submitted by ecklesweb on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:40AM

ecklesweb writes: The Boston Globe reprots that Hacks are no longer a joke at MIT. Three students tripped an alarm while "exploring" the Faculty Club under the cover of dark. Instead of fines or community service, the three students face up to 20 years in prison on charges of felony breaking and entering and trespassing. Of course, maybe it's just *botched* hacks that are no joke at MIT...

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