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Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks 238

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 23, 2009 @08:54PM from the p-d-q dept.

CWmike writes "Sourcefire security researcher Lurene Grenier has published a home-brewed patch for the critical Adobe Reader vulnerability that hackers are exploiting in the wild using malicious PDF files, beating Adobe Systems Inc. to the punch by more than two weeks. Grenier posted the patch on Sunday with the caveats that it applies only to the Windows version of Adobe Reader 9.0 and comes with no guarantees. Also, PhishLabs has created a batch file that resets a Windows registry key to de-fang the hack by disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader 9.0, giving administrators a way to automate the process."

Feed Engadget: France planning to 'triple' CCTV surveillance capacity (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday July 28, 2007 @01:32PM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

At least those residing in the UK can breathe a momentary sigh of relief, as it's not the only locale where the amount of surveillance drones is quickly approaching the number of citizens. Reportedly, French interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie recently announced that the government is planning to "triple" the existing CCTV surveillance capacities across the country, "with a view to curb the risks of terrorism and acts of violence." Beyond just bumping the amount of eyes scanning for troublemakers, she also suggested that the network of systems be more tightly connected in order to effectively "protect the French people and enable them to move freely without fearing for their lives or property." Of course, we're sure there's quite a few citizens who'd have beef with the whole "moving freely sans fear" tidbit, no?

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Submission + - Kismac soon to become illegal (kismac.de)

Submitted by

mgv

on Saturday July 28, 2007 @10:52AM

mgv writes: "From the website: "There has not been a lot of time for KisMAC lately. However the motivation for this drastic step lays somewhere different. German laws change and are being adapted for "better" protection against something politicians obviously do not understand. It will become illegal to develop, use or even posses KisMAC in this banana republic." So, unfortunately, one of the better passive wireless network detection programs for the mac is being wound up. If you are able, download the binary and source code now."

Comment Erm... (Score 1) 166

by PlasticMonkey on Thursday July 26, 2007 @07:43PM (#20004301) Attached to: NASA Investigates Possible Sabotage by Worker

Brilliant Journalism!
Two! Measly! Paragraphs!

=/

I know NASA might have been sketchy on the details, but I can't believe this has made its way to the front page with a few lines of text in the fine article. I know we never RTFA, but we don't have a bloody chance today! How can you get a meaningful discussion out of this?!

Ahhhhh.
Bye bye, karma.

Irish Company Claims Free Energy 1125

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 21, 2006 @03:20PM from the and-a-robot-in-every-house dept.

raghus writes "An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy — a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics." I can't wait until I can use this free energy to power my flying car and heat my aquarium of mermaids.

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