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Submission + - Leading global warming researcher accused of fraud

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A leading global warming research, Wei-Chyung Wang at SUNY, has been accused of fraud in his research. The research was one of the main reasons that urban heat islands were considered to be insignificant for global warming studies. This could potentially mean that the global warming is not as large as previously thought. The researcher who discovered the fraud has previously published about other bogus research.
Amiga

Submission + - Amiga in an FPGA released under GPL (hetnet.nl) 2

Submitted by exolon42
exolon42 writes: This is a mandatory read for every (former or current) Amiga hacker. You have to give it to the Dutch: tulips, cheese, and now a guy named Dennis has recreated the original Amiga chipset in a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA, and recently released all sources under the GPL to boot! This includes the design of a PCB containing the FPGA, the required MC68000 and normal PC-style hardware connectors so you can build your own. A thought-provoking fact is that the Verilog-sources for the recreated chips (Denise, Paula, Agnus etc.) are only around 500-1000 lines each... chips in the eighties didn't contain 1 billion transistors!
United States

Submission + - China's economic strength

Submitted by
AkumaReloaded
AkumaReloaded writes: "With the economic downturn and the weak dollar the USA finds itself in a tough spot. Now China threathens a 'nuclear option' of dollar sales . Will the US economy recover after such a blow, or will it wither in pain while the rest of the world economy falls into recession?

Here are 2 links for more information about the subject.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/08/09/AR2007080900311.html"
Security

Submission + - BlackICE to be Discontinued, Other Vendors Move in (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "In a move that might be somewhat surprising to many, IBM ISS will soon stop selling BlackICE PC and Server Protection, with all support for the products to cease by 28 September, 2008. Other vendors are already making a move to capture the userbase, with SunBelt Software establishing SaveBlackICE.com, where BlackICE users can access a free copy of what used to be the Kerio firewall."
Security

Submission + - iPhone Update Affects Hacking Effort (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "Apple's recent 1.0.1 update to the iPhone has had a real effect on the current state of work into unlocking the device. At the same time, more third party software for the iPhone has been released, including Ruby and a tool to provide commandline access to the phone via Safari.

Work into reverse engineering S-Gold2 is continuing and there should be practical results before too long."
Security

Submission + - DBA Sells more than 8.5 Million Consumer Records (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "One of the most significant insider thefts to take place in recent months has worsened, with the DBA responsible for selling consumer records from Fidelity National now accused of selling more than 8.5 million records, according to SEC filings from last week.

Combined with the Fox / ZDNet disclosure, the breach of more than 10 million records have been reported for just July alone."
Windows

Submission + - Load Unsigned Drivers in Vista Without Rebooting (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "One of the methods introduced by Microsoft to provide a more stable environment in Vista is requiring drivers to be digitally signed before they will be loaded into memory. While there are tools and techniques that exist to get around this restriction, including rebooting Vista into a modified functionality mode, it is more of an annoyance than a complete obstruction to driver loading.

Linchpin Labs have released their Atsiv command-line tool, which allows for loading of unsigned and legacy drivers without rebooting, making use of an already-signed component to load the unsigned components — simplifying the overall unsigned driver loading process."
Security

Submission + - Storm Worm Employs VM Detection (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "The ISC has provided an interesting writeup on some of the virtual machine detection methods that the Storm worm is employing to avoid analysis, specifically routines that target VMWare and VirtualPC.

This is related to material covered recently about routines available to break out of sandboxes / VMs and demonstrates that if it is available publicly, then it is likely that it will make an appearance in malware before too long."
Security

Submission + - Fidelity Data Theft now Affects 8.5 Million (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "CNN have reported that the insider data theft at Fidelity National Information Services, originally reported earlier this month, has worsened from 2.3 million records to around 8.5 million consumer records.

Combined with the almost 1.5 million records exposed by the recent Fox News password discovery, it makes for more than 10 million records reported as having been exposed for July, alone. It is beginning to make consumer record loss and theft of less than 1 million records per incident appear almost normal."
Security

Submission + - LMH and InfoSec Sellout Unmasked? (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "It appears that LMH (Month of Apple Bugs) and InfoSec Sellout (Rape.osx) have been unmasked. In a posting to a bunch of security mailing lists (and which is still filtering through the moderation and filtering systems), a 'Lance M Havok' (LMH) claims to be David Maynor, and claims InfoSec Sellout is Jon Ramsey, David's previous manager at SecureWorks.

The next couple of days should see this information backed up, should the witnesses that are named corroborate the details."
Security

Submission + - A new Worm for Your Apple (Rape.osx) (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "Controversy is slowly building over the development of a new worm that targets OS X systems, dubbed 'Rape.osx'. Using a currently undisclosed vulnerability in mDNSResponder, the worm gives access to root as it spreads across the local network. As with a number of recent Apple-related security discoveries, the author, InfoSec Sellout, is delaying reporting of the vulnerability to Apple until after completing full testing of the worm.

While the worm has yet to leave a testing environment (with 1,500 OS X systems), it is bound to join the likes of Inqtana and Leap as known OS X malware."
Security

Submission + - Destroying Sandboxes (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "Many anti-malware applications use a sandbox as a tool to help identify potentially malicious software. It appears that knowledge is slowly spreading about techniques and methods that can allow sandboxed software to target the sandbox itself (and by extension the application that applied it).

While attacks that specifically target sandboxing applications are probably a little way off, this technology can be considered the logical extension of techniques and procedures to identify the presence of hosted systems (VMWare, Virtual PC, etc)."
Security

Submission + - Aussies Face the Threat of Robo-Pacinos (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "If reporting from The Age newspaper is to be believed, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner, Mick Keelty, recently briefed a Parliamentary Inquiry into the future impact of organised crime that Australians would be facing the threat of part-robot humans involved in organised crime in the future.

Without access to the transcripts, this position seems indefensible, but there is evidence that these claims aren't far from what the AFP is actually concerned about. Taken on face value, the report has begun receiving attention from security-focussed sites and blogs, not a lot of it favourable to the Commissioner's position."

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