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Submission + - Apple responds to MOAB bug

Submitted by netsfr on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @02:26AM

netsfr writes: Some slashdotters and others thought that Apple may not respond to the Month Of Apple Bugs, but Apple has posted a bug fix for the Quicktime bug posted earler on the MOAB website. Quote from Apple's website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304 989

Security Update 2007-001

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QuickTime

CVE-ID: CVE-2007-0015

Available for: QuickTime 7.1.3 on Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X Server v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.8, Mac OS X Server v10.4.8, Windows XP/2000

Impact: Visiting malicious websites may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's handling of RTSP URLs. By enticing a user to access a maliciously-crafted RTSP URL, an attacker can trigger the buffer overflow, which may lead to arbitrary code execution. A QTL file that triggers this issue has been published on the Month of Apple Bugs web site (MOAB-01-01-2007). This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of RTSP URLs.

Submission + - Google Antiphishing Site Exposes Private User Data

Submitted by

Juha-Matti Laurio

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @10:07AM

Juha-Matti Laurio writes: "Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on the Web. This information was submitted to Google by Firefox users with browser's internal antiphishing toolbar. This feature developed in co-operation with Google enables users to report potential phishing sites to Google's blacklist database. Google has reportedly implemented a new mechanism detecting login data in submitted URL's to prevent sensitive information from getting posted to the list."

Submission + - 'Heartbeat' in Earth's climate

Submitted by

On Purpose

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @07:28AM

On Purpose writes: "Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate
A few years ago, an international team of researchers went to the middle of the Pacific Ocean and drilled down five kilometers below sea level in an effort to uncover secrets about the earth's climate history. They exceeded their expectations and have published their findings in the Dec. 22 edition of the journal Science.
The researchers' drilling produced pristine samples of marine microfossils, otherwise known as foraminifera. Analysis of the carbonate shells of these microfossils, which are between 23 million to 34 million years-old, has revealed that the Earth's climate and the formation and recession of glaciation events in the Earth's history have corresponded with variations in the earth's natural orbital patterns and carbon cycles.
The researchers were particularly interested in these microfossils because they came from the Oligocene epoch, a time in Earth's history known for falling temperatures.
"The continuity and length of the data series we gathered and analyzed allowed for unprecedented insights into the complex interactions between external climate forcing, the global carbon cycle and ice sheet oscillations," said Dr. Jens Herrle, co-author of the paper and a micropaleontology professor at the University of Alberta.
The authors also show how simple models of the global carbon cycle, coupled to orbital controls of global temperature and biological activity, are able to reproduce the important changes observed after the world entered an "ice-house" state about 34 million years ago.
In the early half of the 20th century, Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch first proposed that cyclical variations in the Earth-Sun geometry can alter the Earth's climate and these changes can be discovered in the Earth's geological archives, which is exactly what this research team, consisting of members from the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Canada, has done.
"This research is not only concerned with the climate many millions-of-years-ago. Researching and understanding 'extreme' climate events from the geological past allows us to better tune climate models to understand present and future events, and the response to major perturbations of Earth's climate and the global carbon cycle, Herrle added.

Article"

Submission + - RIAA arresting it's artists now

Submitted by Maximum Prophet on Thursday January 18, 2007 @02:05PM

Maximum Prophet writes: I'll bet you thought it was safe to make a mix tape and give it to a friend. Well, think again....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/arts/music/18dra m.html
...DJ Drama is yet another symbol of the music industry's turmoil and confusion. On Tuesday night he was arrested with Don Cannon, a protégé. The police, working with the Recording Industry Association of America, raided his office, at 147 Walker Street in Atlanta. The association makes no distinction between counterfeit CDs and unlicensed compilations like those that DJ Drama is known for...

Won't somebody please think of the poor starving artists and arrest them?

The story goes on to say that many of the artists featured on the mixtapes would never have had the exposure and thus sales they had if DJ Drama had not featured them on a mix. Nowhere is a specific artist mentioned who claims to have been wronged by him.

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