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Submission + - Hackers May Have Nabbed Over 200 SSL Certificates (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @05:43PM

CWmike writes: "Hackers may have obtained more than 200 digital certificates from a Dutch company after breaking into its network, including ones for Mozilla, Yahoo and the Tor project — a considerably higher number than DigiNotar has acknowledged earlier this week when it said 'several dozen' certificates had been acquired by attackers. Among the certificates acquired by the attackers in a mid-July hack of DigiNotar, Van de Looy's source said, were ones valid for mozilla.com, yahoo.com and torproject.org, a system that lets people connect to the Web anonymously. Mozilla confirmed that a certificate for its add-on site had been obtained by the DigiNotar attackers. 'DigiNotar informed us that they issued fraudulent certs for addons.mozilla.org in July, and revoked them within a few days of issue,' Johnathan Nightingale, director of Firefox development, said Wednesday. Looy's number is similar to the tally of certificates that Google has blacklisted in Chrome."

Submission + - kernel.org compromized (kernel.org) 2

Submitted by JoeF on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @05:33PM

JoeF writes: There is a note posted on the main kernel.org page, that kernel.org has been compromised earlier this month:
"Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure."

The note goes on to say that it is unlikely to have affected the source code repositories, due to the nature of git.

Submission + - German Ban on "Doom" Finally Lifted (ign.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @04:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: 18 Years after its debut, "Doom", the game that almost single-handedly popularized the FPS genre (remember when we just called them "Doom Clones"?) is finally seeing the light of legality in the nation of Germany. The lifting of the ban also applies to the beloved sequel "Doom II". A release date has yet to be set. I recommend that Germans who have not found some way to play this game over the last 18 years, please do so upon its release. Despite its age, it's still fun as hell. (Pun very much intended.)

Submission + - Chemical Cocktail Turns Mice Clear (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @03:12PM

sciencehabit writes: Researchers have serendipitously discovered that a mixture of urea, glycerol, and soap makes membranes transparent. When they tried the mixture on a developing mouse fetus, they found that it removed all of the pigment from the cells, rendering the fetus completely transparent. The technique allowed scientists to see fluorescent neurons buried several millimeters in the brain.

Comment Best wishes and a big thank you for everything! (Score 1) 1521

by Pyro on Thursday August 25, 2011 @12:03PM (#37207468) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Been reading Slashdot since 98 at my first job at a dotcom start up as the MIS manager. (Whoever thought giving a kid straight out of high school that job was nuts; what times that was. But then again our CEO was the same one that thought it would be a good idea to give us packs of bottles of custom labeled beer to give to customers, clients and partners at Comdex '99 as some kind of guerrella marketing thing... We mostly passed it out to people we knew personally or those in the industry we respected instead; which meant we made a stop at the Slashdot booth and unloaded a backpack full... Good times...)

There are plenty of other tech/geek/whatever news sites out there, but this is home and the only one I read daily. Thank you again! I wish you all the best in your future endeavors (btw, write that book!)

Submission + - Ohio man gets a $16.4 million cable bill (yahoo.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Friday March 25, 2011 @07:07PM

wiredmikey writes: You may have heard the story about the man living in a 14x60 trailer who got a $12,864 electric bill, or the Corpus Christie man who was billed $7.7 million by his water company, or the Canadian whose cell phone provider hit him up for $85,000...

In this case an Ohio man's attempt to make a payment on his cable bill to Time Warner was rejected, and he learned that the company had calculated his past-due amount at more than $16 million.

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