Vuln: GnuPG ‘GPGSM Tool’ Certificate Importing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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GnuPG 'GPGSM Tool' Certificate Importing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vuln: Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey ‘nsTreeSelection’ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey 'nsTreeSelection' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vuln: Multiple Mozilla Products ‘importScripts()’ Method Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Multiple Mozilla Products 'importScripts()' Method Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Which oil-mopping technology will win $1.4m X prize?

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Filters, centrifuges, and oil-gulping ships may be among the contenders for a new X prize designed to avert another Deepwater Horizon disaster


Microsoft schedules patch for Windows Shell flaw

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Update planned for Monday to fix zero-day vulnerability in wake of increased attacks.

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Convirture Aims to Be VMware for Linux Data Centers

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Relative newcomer Convirture believes it is plugging a major hole by specializing in managing open source Xen, KVM virtualization and private cloud deployments. - VMware's ESX hypervisor and its vCenter control suite are thought to be operating in more than 80 percent of all enterprise IT systems. Some some IT people believe that number is too conservative. Microsoft's Hyper-V, still getting its bearings in the market, is growing in use but still mired in ...

Software released for attacking Android phones (Reuters)

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A model demonstrates the Nexus One smartphone, the first mobile phone Google will sell directly to consumers based on its Android platform, after a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Two security experts said on Friday they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc's Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim's email and text messages.


Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Launcher from "Despicable Me"

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Don't squid me, bro.

New CEO Thompson Sets Course for Storage Startup Virtual Instruments

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VI, a spinoff of Finisar, makes SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization software called SANInsight and VirtualWisdom. These products provide deep monitoring and analysis of how virtualized IT infrastructures and SANs affect business-critical application performance. - Three months after taking over leadership of storage optimization startup Virtual Instruments, CEO John Thompson -- who for 9 years was CEO of Symantec -- has mapped out the path his company is going to be taking for the next few years. As virtualization continues to become more prominent in IT p...

Smartphones tempting new targets for hackers

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Software security experts warn that mobile phones are tempting targets for hackers in a world where people eagerly invite strange applications onto handsets packed with personal data.