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The software that police and enterprise security teams use to investigate wrongdoing on computers is not as secure as it should be, according to researchers with Isec Partners Inc.

The San Francisco security company has spent the past six months investigating two forensic investigation programs, Guidance Software Inc.’s EnCase, and an open-source product called The Sleuth Kit. They have discovered about a dozen bugs that could be used to crash the programs or possibly even install unauthorized software on an investigator’s machine, according to Alex Stamos, a researcher and founding partner with Isec Partners.

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The iPhone may be Apple’s first official phone, but apparently they toyed with the idea 25 years ago. Way back in 1983, designer Hartmut Esslinger, the same guy who made the Apple IIc computer, came up with this phone/tablet prototype.

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Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.
The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft’s digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday. In the past year, Microsoft plugged holes exploited by two earlier versions of the program and filed a federal lawsuit against its anonymous authors. Microsoft dropped the lawsuit after failing to identify them.

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Prolexic specialises in mitigating DDoS attacks, monitoring web traffic and compiling a “weather report” on DDoS attacks. Rennick says the new approach is to use botnets, each with tens of thousands of computers, to send tiny amounts of data to a target site.

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Mac OS X 10.4.10 is the first iterative release of Mac OS X to have 5 digits in its version string (1, 0, 4, 1, 0). It is also the first iterative release of Mac OS X to use the “.10″ extension. This is causing some
significant issues.
The initial three [sic] digits for “10.4.10″ are the same as “10.4.1,” an earlier release of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Since the “MAC_OS_X_VERSION_ACTUAL” string (used by Cocoa applications to determine
the current OS version) can carry a maximum of four digits, Mac OS X 10.4.10 and and 10.4.1 are both labeled “1041.”

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Research by Associated Press has found classified military documents widely available on the internet.

The documents include blueprints of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq, together with geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad.

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The locked iPhone only works with AT&T’s EDGE network, and cannot be used with cellular service from other providers. Locked phones are generally used to help operators recoup the cost of subsidizing handsets for their customers, but AT&T is not subsidizing the iPhone, which is priced at either $499 or $599, depending on the model. Instead, the phone is locked because AT&T has a five-year agreement with Apple to be the sole iPhone provider in the U.S.
Is that surprising?

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