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Archive for November 28th, 2007

Malware infects Google search

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

For the last two days, security software firm Sunbelt Software has documented what could develop into a scary trend: Rigged Google search results that deliver big malware payloads.
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Ontario’s full-day kindergarten plan moving forward

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The Ontario government has taken its first step in fulfilling an election promise by announcing it will begin offering full-day kindergarten classes in three years.
The government will spend $200 million in 2010 and another $300 million in 2011 to get the project off the ground, Premier Dalton McGuinty said on Tuesday.

Are you kidding me!!? [...]

Backups with Bacula: A cross-platform system to archive your data

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Crashes happen. People make mistakes. Hardware fails. It’s all just a matter of time before you lose your data. Indeed, certain failure is the impetus for backups. But creating backups is often painful, so much so that many users choose to ignore the procedure, albeit at great peril. Hence, the ideal backup system is thorough, [...]

Canada’s coming DMCA will be the worst copyright yet

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The Canadian government is about to bring down Canada’s version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits breaking the locks off your music and movies in order to move them to new devices or [...]

Firefox Vulnerable to New QuickTime Exploit

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

 
Apple has been presented with yet another security headache by an independent researcher. Krystian Kloskowski has posted a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime multimedia software. The researcher said that a successful attack could enable the remote execution of malicious code. The exploit targets a flaw in the way QuickTime handles information [...]

ATTENTION ALL USERS: Malicious Commands

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Okay these are nasty and yes people do suggest some newbee’s run them, and yes I have seen folks suggest it. How ever that is not a good thing. As you read the article you will see that most are very very nasty, and while the “guru” that told the noob about it will be [...]

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