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TMCnet: Yahoo’s CAPTCHA Broken…Is a Spam Tsunami in the Offing?

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GNUCITIZEN: Hacking Video Surveillance Networks "The register.py script will register a brand new AXIS 206 camera, while the server.py will feed MJPG video stream from an external source"

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The Spanner: Google payloads

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Computer World: New attack proves critical Windows bug ‘highly exploitable’ "Immunity Inc. updated a working exploit for the TCP/IP flaw spelled out Jan. 8 in Microsoft’s MS08-001 security bulletin, and posted a Flash demonstration of the attack"

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Computer World: Mozilla ups Firefox bug threat, slates fix for Feb. 5

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BBC News: UK iPhone users get better deals "The lowest 35 monthly tariff is to offer about three times as many texts and minutes"

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ZDNet UK: Offline Google Docs expected to launch "Recent news from the blogosphere indicates that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears"

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F-Secure: PHP IRC Bot "We saw a PHP script that was heavily obfuscated and the configuration was encrypted"

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There’s no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era. This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago. Most people know that he’s going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets. But what will that really mean for free software?

[This story is not about open source software, but about Bill Gates 'charitable' intentions to prevent the uptake of open source software in developing countries and make them dependent on Microsoft - hkwint]

Related story: Bill & M. Gates foundation for-profit investments harm the health & environment of the poor

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There’s no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era. This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago. Most people know that he’s going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets. But what will that really mean for free software?

[This story is not about open source software, but about Bill Gates 'charitable' intentions to prevent the uptake of open source software in developing countries and make them dependent on Microsoft - hkwint]

Related story: Bill & M. Gates foundation for-profit investments harm the health & environment of the poor

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[ My personal opinions are between () parentheses. If you like to read a rather unbiased article, skip the bits between brackets and you should be fine - hkwint ]

(Dutch source here)
Yesterday Webwereld.nl (a Dutch IT-site called “Webworld”) revealed it laid its hands on a ‘non-public’ document which describes a non-public tender for new software for 3k to 21k desktops for the financial department of the Dutch government. It seems the tender favours Microsoft and other closed software over other solutions leaving little chance for open source software. That’s because the tender asks for support for several closed / proprietary platforms like Active Directory to manage logins and firewalls, and (the patent encumbered) .NET. After protest from society and politicians, the Dutch Minister of Finance / Vice Prime Minister, Mr. W. Bos answered the Dutch government will switch to open standards and open source software in 2012, but at the moment this is not a viable option (not viable since they are locked in rather badly it seems).

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Those of us living in South Africa are now facing the reality of rolling electricity blackouts for, at the very least, the rest of this year and possibly even longer than that. If you have a laptop and 3G connection then two or three hours a day without electricity is not unmanageable. Add the Flexopower SolarPouch to your backpack and your cellphone, iPod, PSP, GPS and music player are also covered for unexpected downtime.

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The Ruport Book Project has announced that they’ve begun shipping pre-orders of their book. The primary authors, Gregory Brown and Michale Milner, are core developers of the Ruport reporting system for Ruby as well.

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Think you’re smarter than the meatheads on your local city council? Now you can prove it — without running for office — courtesy of the original city simulation game. Electronic Arts (EA) has released the source code to SimCity under the GPLv3. The …

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Copyrights and Wrongs

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The majority of the users Just Don’t Know. But I have been enlightened: Microsoft is like the Matrix. The only difference is that Microsoft does not desire electricity, but the money. All it can get. Now read, think and have fun.

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[ MDVSA-2008:029 ] – Updated ruby packages fix possible man-in-the-middle attack

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contactforms "cforms-css.php" Remote File Inclusion

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[DSECRG-08-007] OpenBSD BGPD daemon Web Interface XSS.

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Today Fox News reported that a 41 year Jacksonville, FL women who thinking that she was about to be …(more)…

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BBC News: Quarter of US iPhones ‘unlocked’ "More than a quarter of iPhones sold in the US have been unlocked to work on network providers other than Apple’s exclusive partner AT&T, a study says"

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Darknet: Metasploit Framework v3.1 Released for Download "The latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits"

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Computer World: European court strikes blow against music industry fishing

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Network World: German police Skype-hacking leaked "Encryption of communication via Skype poses a problem for surveillance of telecommunications"

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Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10

FlyBack
is a tool similar to Apple’s TimeMachine. It is intended to create
snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive.
From the FlyBack project page: “FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup
tool based on rsync. It creates successive backup directories mirroring
the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files to the
previous backup. This prevents wasting disk space while providing you
with full access to all your files without any sort of recovery
program. If your machine crashes, just move your external drive to your
new machine and copy the latest backup using whatever file browser you
normally use.” This article shows how to install and use FlyBack on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

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In the first installment in this series, your editor took on the task of getting video data onto his system in digital form. Part 3 talked about authoring DVDs with the nicely edited versions of those video clips. Now it’s time to fill in the missing second part, wherein your editor turns raw captured video into something suitable for DVD creation.

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As with most domestic policy, Obama has staked out a position to the right of both Edwards and Clinton.

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If you need to share files or printers with Windows machines, you’re likely using Samba and know how to administer and configure it by editing configuration files and starting and stopping the daemon. However, there’s an easier, graphical way to configure your box: the Samba Web Administration Tool. SWAT allows you to set up all aspects of your Samba server through an intuitive Web interface in a style similar to Webmin. (In fact, if you use Webmin, you can access SWAT by going to Servers -> Samba Windows File Sharing and then clicking on the hammer icon for SWAT.)

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