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Google Kills Wave Development 327

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @05:48PM from the harshing-on-mellow dept.

We've mentioned several times over the past two years Wave, Google's ambitiously multi-channel, perhaps plain overwhelming entry in the social media wars. Now, reader mordejai writes "Google stated in its official blog that they will not continue developing Wave as a standalone product. It's sad, because it had a lot of potential to improve communications, but Google never promoted it well, denying it a chance to replace email and other collaboration tools for many uses."

Submission + - Anatomy Of An Attempted Malware Scam (mediapost.com)

Submitted by Dynamoo on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:34AM

Dynamoo writes: Malicious advertisments ("malvertisements") are getting more and more common as the Bad Guys try to use reputable ad networks to spread malware. Julia Casale-Amorim of Casale Media details the lengths that some fake companies will go to to convince ad networks to take the bait.

Comment Re:Thank goodness there's no damage (Score 2, Informative) 154

by CyberGrandad on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:19AM (#33138250) Attached to: Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth

2. There will be really impressive light displays (which I hope someone will post on YouTube

No video (so far) but there are photos at spaceweather.com.

Submission + - AV Vendors Detect On Average 19% Of Malware Attack (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @09:43AM

An anonymous reader writes: Traditional AV vendors continue to lag behind online criminals when it comes to detecting and protecting against new and quickly evolving threats on the Internet, according to a report by Cyveillance. Testing shows that even the most popular AV signature-based solutions detect on average less than 19% of malware threats. That detection rate increases only to 61.7% after 30 days. Even after 30 days, many AV vendors cannot detect known attacks.

Submission + - Feds storing checkpoint body scan images (cnet.com) 2

Submitted by AHuxley on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @08:41AM

AHuxley writes: The US Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."
It turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images.
The U.S. Marshals Service admitted that it had saved ~35,314 images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.
The images where stored on a Brijot Gen2 machine. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction to stop the TSA's body scanning program.

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