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Comment Update 1.5 Million users... owned. (Score -1) 611

by Paris The Pirate on Monday July 23, 2007 @04:45PM (#19961339) Attached to: Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?

Check it out.

Submission + - Password Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.5 (whitedust.net)

Submitted by Paris The Pirate on Monday July 23, 2007 @10:34AM

Paris The Pirate writes: According to a message posted over the weekend on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.5, contains a password management vulnerability that can allow malicious Web sites to steal user passwords. If you have JavaScript enabled and allow Firefox to remember your passwords, you are at risk from this flaw.

US Government Checking Up On Vista Users? 291

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 22, 2007 @02:24PM from the security-theatre-in-your-home dept.

Paris The Pirate writes "This article at Whitedust displays some very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company; for no reason other than the machine was running Vista. From the article 'After running Vista for only a few days — with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection — so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening. What I found was foundation shaking. The two images below show graphical depictions of what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state'."

Submission + - US Government Spies On Vista Users

Submitted by Paris The Pirate on Sunday July 22, 2007 @01:00PM

Paris The Pirate writes: This article displays some very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development Profram and the Halliburon Company; for no reason other than the machine was running Vista. From the article "After running Vista for only a few days — with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection — so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening. What I found was foundation shaking. The two images below show graphical depictions of what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state".

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