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Submission + - YouTube co-founder calls for global access to TV online (afr.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: YouTube co-founder says internet users should be able to legitimately watch content from anywhere in the world at any time. He pretty much says that the days of national TV networks controlling the global online rights to shows has to end. Also says YouTube will be bidding for more online live sports.

Submission + - Researchers Demo Exploits Bypassing Windows 8 Secure Boot (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Researchers demonstrated at Black Hat this week two attacks that bypassed Secure Boot in order to install a UEFI bootkit — boot rootkit — on affected computers. The first exploit works because certain vendors do not properly protect their firmware, allowing an attacker to modify the code responsible for enforcing Secure Boot, said researcher Yuriy Bulygin, who works at McAfee. The second exploit demonstrated by the researchers can run in user mode, which means that an attacker would only need to gain code execution rights on the system by exploiting a vulnerability in a regular application like Java, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office or others. In both cases, the exploits are possible not because of vulnerabilities in Secure Boot itself, but because of UEFI implementation errors made by platform vendors.

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