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Submission + - Wikileaks Julian Assange arrested in London (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes: The UK Metropolitan Police arrested the 39-year old founder of Wikipedia this morning on the basis of a European Arrest Warrant, as he voluntarily turned himself into a police station. He will appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court later. Assange is accused by the Swedish authorities of sexually assaulting two women. He has said the charges are wrong and are part of a campaign against him as Wikileaks reveals a raft of confidential government communications.

Submission + - Julian Assange Arrested in UK (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by AndGodSed
AndGodSed writes: Jullian Assange has been arrested on behalf of Swedish police for the rape charges he is due to face in that country. Wikileaks say that they will continue releasing documents in spite of Assange's arrest.

Submission + - Julian Assange arrested (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian reports that Julian Assange has been arrested and will appear before a court at 2pm.
Time to buy that V for Vendetta costume, and stand outside parliment?

Submission + - Julian Assange turns himself over to UK authoritie (cnn.com)

Submitted by sardaukar_siet
sardaukar_siet writes: London (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Assange was arrested at a London police station at 9:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. ET) and will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrate's Court later in the day, police said.

Swedish authorities had issued the warrant for Assange so they can talk to him about sex-crime allegations unrelated to WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of secret U.S. documents.
Crime

Submission + - Wikileaks founder arrested by British police

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An anonymous reader writes: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was arrested on Tuesday in relation to a Swedish sex-crime case, the London Metropolitan Police said. Interpol, the international police agency, had issued a 'red notice' last week for Assange, who had been hiding out in an undisclosed location till recently. The notice is not equivalent of an arrest warrant, but he was charged with sex crimes and was put on the 'wanted' list.
Security

Submission + - China hijacks internet traffic for 18 minutes (nationaldefensemagazine.org) 2

Submitted by achyuta
achyuta writes: Launching attacks on security agencies such as the Pentagon or civilians to gain sensitive information has been on for some time now. But an event which seems to have flown under the radar of the popular press, suggests that the information security war is now being waged by simply taking advantage of the way the internet works. The hostile party literally has the prey sent to them. The vice president of threat research at McAfee, Dmitri Alperovitch says "This is one of the biggest — if not the biggest hijacks — we have ever seen. What happened to the traffic while it was in China? No one knows."
Youtube

Submission + - Youtube xss vulnerability unleashed

Submitted by licnep
licnep writes: Apparently it's possible, with very little effort, to post malicious javascript code inside youtube comments.
This simple exploit could have been around for a while and was probably used to steal regular users' cookies and to gain access to many youtube and google accounts.
Today, 4th of July, the exploit was published on many popular websites like ebaumsworld and lots of videos have been "hacked".
Youtube was promptly put in "safety mode", and all comments are now hidden by default, but it's still not safe to surf the website unless you have javascript turned off.
Youtube

Submission + - YouTube hit by HTML injection vulnerability (google.com) 1

Submitted by Virak
Virak writes: Several hours ago, someone found an HTML injection vulnerability in YouTube's comment system, and since then sites such as 4chan have been having a field day with popular videos. The bug is triggered by placing a <script> tag at the beginning of a post. The tag itself is escaped, but everything following it is cheerfully placed in the page as is. Blacked out pages with giant red text scrolling across them, shock site redirects, and all sorts of other fun things have been spotted. YouTube has currently blocked such comments from being posted and set the comments section to be hidden by default, and appears to be in the process of removing some of these comments, but the underlying bug does not seem to have been fixed yet.
Bug

Submission + - Youtube HTML Injection Vulnerability Exploited (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Youtube is currently open to an html attack based on using two [style] elements in a row — Youtube currently escapes one such element correctly but two works. It seems to be used currently for font-size adjustment, marquee text etc. but it breaks the comment system so new comments can't be made and the comment breaking the system can't be deleted, and cuts off the page at the breaking comment. An example video, previously featured on Slashdot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=related
Technology

MIT's Flyfire To Paint Images In the Sky Using Micro-Helicopters 65

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the bundles-of-led-joy dept.
@engadget mentions that a new project dubbed "Flyfire" at MIT is looking to launch a fleet of LED-equipped micro-helicopters and coordinate them in synchrony to create massive floating images. "By using LED-equipped drones the project pledges to build free-floating 3D displays, endowing them with enough smarts and positional awareness to organize themselves into an airborne canvas. It sounds deliciously exciting and challenging."

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