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Chrome

SSL Nightmare-> 1

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Khopesh
Khopesh writes "Yesterday, Jacob Appelbaum wrote in depth about Certificate Authority compromises, discussing some very recent additions to Firefox and Chrome regarding blacklisted SSL certificates. It turns out that certificate revocation does not work, and that's becoming a major problem: Comodo, one of the world's largest certificate issuing authorities, just announced that it
issued fraudulent certificates to major sites, including Google, Yahoo, Skype, and others. Sadly, Comodo's site is refusing to serve their own account. Here is the Google cache of Comodo's compromise announcement."
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Government

Feds Still Spy On Citizens->

Submitted by Khopesh
Khopesh writes "Too often, we've seen U.S. Intelligence agencies whose actions are cloaked in secrecy until someone uncovers governmental abuse that places innocent people under surveillance or on watchlists. It's truly scary to ponder how much more stays hidden. NetworkWorld recently got the chance to interview FBI Agent-turned ACLU Councel Mike German to get a thorough perspective from an insider who was fed up enough with those policies to quit his 16-year career and pick up as Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy for the ACLU. DailyTech has a nice overview of the story."
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Security

Compromised .giv, .mil, .edu sites for sale-> 1

Submitted by Khopesh
Khopesh writes "Imperva blogged today about the sale of compromised .gov, .mil, and .edu sites, illustrating that cyber-criminals are getting bolder. Krebs on Security has an unredacted view of the site list. Perhaps the biggest threat is yet to come; if an industrious criminal can break into top government and military sites, so too can government-backed teams, proving that GhostNet and Stuxnet are just the beginning..."
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Security

Space.com & other TopTenREVIEWS sites compromi

Submitted by Khopesh
Khopesh writes "This doesn't appear to be listed anywhere yet, but it just came in via email from Stephen O'Brien at the US Secret Service. There is not yet any recognition on any of those sites either. Quoting that email:

The Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force has been made aware of the following websites, which are redirecting users to a site hosting malicious code. This code can be used to exploit your computer and allow a user unauthorized access to your private information. Specifically, the exploits are targeting Adobe PDF files and Java applications.

Please use caution if browsing any of these sites:

Space.com
Livescience.com
Toptenreviews.com
Newsarama.com

Please contact the ECTF at 718-840-1220 if you have any further information or questions regarding this notice."

Best Visualizations of 2010-> 2

Submitted by Khopesh
Khopesh writes "We're overrun by a plethora of data in this Information Age. Presenting this data has always been a difficult task. Google is seen as a leader here, having formed itself around the very idea of distilling and presenting information. In the last year or so, we have begun to see other presentations of data in beautifully designed graphical representations. FlowingData, a blog devoted to this sort of thing, has assembled a list of the 10 Best Data Visualizations of the year. Another blog on this front is Information is Beautiful. Even Facebook's devs are in on the action with a map of friend networks that looks almost identical to NASA's Earth at Night map — but without overlaying atop a base image."
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