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Submission + - New Non-military Private Email Network (swift.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Perhaps a first for a non-military group, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication introduces email to their private network, SWIFTNet. Employees of the various institutions around the world can now simply add the .swift pseudo-TLD to the end of the email address they wish to send to, and the message will travel through SWIFTNet.
Security

Submission + - We live in a safe world. Bogus Company Gets Nuke (townhall.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Congressional investigators set up a bogus company with only a postal box and within a month obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small "dirty bomb."
Quickies

Submission + - Experts warn of lightning-strike injuries with... (go.com)

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "ABC News says emergency physicians are treating other patients with burns from freak accidents while using personal electronic devices such as beepers, Walkman players, iPod, and laptop/notebook computers outdoors during storms... Contrary to some urban legends and media reports, electronic devices don't attract lightning the way a tall tree or a lightning rod does... Seen on Blue's News."
Printer

Submission + - CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc. (cups.org)

Submitted by Rick Richardson
Rick Richardson writes: CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc.

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.

CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.
United States

Submission + - Surprise! Hillary is also hypocritical about offsh 1

Submitted by
walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: "I suppose everybody here is aware that Hillary's hypcrisy on universal healthcare was exposed in the Micheal Moore "Sicko" movie. Turns out that as the Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton railed against outsourcing jobs to cheap labor markets worldwide. As the candidate for President, Hillary Clinton favors expansion of the H1-B visa program that would bring more foreign workers into the U.S. to take American jobs. Here's the video"
Security

Submission + - Finger Pointing over IE-to-Firefox Vulnerability (zdnet.com)

Submitted by
Kenny G.
Kenny G. writes: "ZDnet has the back story on a cross-browser IE-to-Firefox vulnerability that has led to lot of finger pointing between Microsoft and Mozilla over who is to blame. The issue actually resides with Firefox but can only be exploited if the target clicks a link in IE. There is a feeling that both sides should issue individual patches to block the attack class."
Software

Submission + - Intel Invests $218M in VMWare, Preparing for IPO

Submitted by RulerOf
RulerOf writes: TechNewsWorld is carrying an article, detailing that Intel has made an investment in VMWare for $218.5 million in anticipation of VMWare's imminent IPO. With an expected value of $23-25 a share, VMWare's IPO shows a value of $950 million. This investment brings Intel to an approximately 13% ownership of the EMC subsidiary, and helps to strengthen the ties between the two companies, as, according to the article, "VMware's virtualization platform runs on Intel architecture and most deployments of the tools are on systems using Intel chips."
Space

Submission + - Water vapour found on exoplanet (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
TallDarkMan
TallDarkMan writes: "We're getting quite a collection of planets (we know about) outside our solar system, and we can add another one that has water! From the article:

Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System. The detection in the extrasolar planet HD 189733b was made using Nasa's powerful Spitzer Space Telescope and is reported in the journal Nature. — It is only the second time water has been detected on an exoplanet.
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Businesses

Submission + - AMD officially cuts prices, Intel likely to follow

Submitted by Penguinisto
Penguinisto writes: Well, here it comes, as we hear AMD cry "Havok!" and let slip the pricetags of war". From the article: "the price cuts mean that all of the company's dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors will be priced at less than $200, with the top-end Athlon 64 X2 6000+ now selling for $178. The two low-end models in AMD's dual-core line, the Athlon X2 3600+ and 3800+, have been dropped, making the Athlon X2 4000+ the new entry-level dual-core model at $73." Coupled with impending Intel price slashing, do we sit around and wait for the prices to get real good, or upgrade the older beasties among our collections this summer?
Privacy

Submission + - Warning: meetyourmessenger.it

Submitted by
Fjodor42
Fjodor42 writes: "Today I received a mail from meetyourmessenger.it, puporting to be an invitation to the site from a friend of mine. First thought was that he must have fallen for the "enter your messenger username and password here to invite your friends"-crap, but guess again. My friend acknowledges to have signed up for the site, using his hotmail address, but declines to have been asked to give his live.com password. None the less, he used the same password for this site as for live.com (we all know we shouldn't, but don't we all the same?). To my knowledge, there has been a number of scams of this sort, where the sites offer to import your messenger contact list, and then spams everyone on it with unsolicited invites, but in this case, it would seem that they completely forgo the step of having the user (misguidedly) entering their live.com credentials, and just go ahead and see if they can get access. I have reported the incident to the Danish Police's computer crime unit (NITEC) and to cert.dk, both as a matter of principle, and also since the owner of meetyourmessenger.it is actually a Danish company, but just wanted to give you a heads-up on this to warn others."
United States

Submission + - Hacktivism Questions for Presidential Candidates 1

Submitted by
DevanJedi
DevanJedi writes: "I am putting together a questionnaire of issues important to the geek hacktivists for each of the candidates for next years US Presidential Election. Most of the web sites of these candidates do not come close to addressing the issues that are important to us today and will affect society in general tomorrow. Issues of privacy, copyright and fair use, net neutrality, the DMCA, the PATRIOT act will obviously come up, but what are the questions that you would want to put to the people who may have the power to change the rules of the digital game?"
Programming

Submission + - 10 Most Critical Web Application Vulnerabilities

Submitted by
em8chel
em8chel writes: "The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has just updated and published the top 10 most serious web application vulnerabilities for 2007, along with discussions on how to protect against them. Both Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Injection Flaws take the top 2 spots again this year. Unvalidated Input, Buffer Overflows, Denial of Service and Insecure Configuration Management are dropped from the list.

The Paper can be downloaded here (PDF 930k)."
Windows

Submission + - Jeremy Allison: Samba team to adopt GPLv3 (techtarget.com) 1

Submitted by OSS_ilation
OSS_ilation writes: A letter from Samba contributor Jeremy Allison confirmed today that the Samba Team has decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba. "To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number," Allison said. Patent covenant deals done after March 28, 2007, are explicitly incompatible with the license if they are "discriminatory" under section 11 of the GPLv3. Samba distributors who have made such patent covenant agreements after that date will not have the right to distribute any version of Samba covered by the GPLv3 (Samba 3.2 or later). The rights of vendors to ship 3.0.25b and previous versions is unchanged and remains as it was under the GPLv2. Consult legal advice if you are in doubt.

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