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GLOBES
Hackers Take Battle With Hamas To Cyberspace
Israeli Internet initiative is recruiting for people to crash hostile Websites -- 5,000 have joined so far

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Russian Hackers A Global Menace
Young and well-to-do Russian hackers behind cybercrime against America are tough to catch

PC ADVISOR
Intel Vpro Hack Hack Exposes 'Secure' Software
Researchers hack vPro laptop and PC security system

COMPUTER CRIME RESEARCH CENTER
Cybercrime Still An Enigma For Cops
Indian officials still stumped when it comes to handling cybercrime

COMPUTERWORLD
IBM Employees Buzzing About Layoff Rumors
Indie Website for IBM employees posts rumors of significant layoffs this month at Big Blue

EMERGENT CHAOS
Maine Breach Study
Maine Bureau of Financial Institutions report says of 71 of 75 financial institutions that responded to its study were hit by a data breach since Jan. 1, 2007, with combined costs of over $2 million

VNUNET
Security Experts Warn Against Pirated Windows 7
Early versions on P2P networks could contain malware

THE REGISTER
Bogus Linkedin Profiles Punt Malware To Fools
Fake accounts pretending to be Beyoncé Knowles, Victoria Beckham, and others contain malicious links

THE INDEPENDENT
New Powers For Police To Hack Your PC
British police now can hack into people's PC's without a warrant

VNUNET
Microsoft Restructure Rumours Abound
Microsoft is expected to employ cost-cutting measures in the upcoming months, including holding off on new hires

DATABREACHES.NET
Pepsi Employee Data on Missing Storage Device
The Pepsi Bottling Group's payroll department is unable to locate a portable data storage device that contains unencrypted personal information on its U.S. employees

FERGIE'S TECH BLOG
Wyndham Hotel Group Hacked
The chain is sending letters to customers who stayed in its hotels alerting them to a breach

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Beijing Urges Firms To 'Purify' Web From Porn
Chinese government criticized several Internet companies, including Google

BBC NEWS
Welsh Government Data 'Missing'
The Welsh Assembly Government says 16 of its documents have been lost or stolen in the past three years

IT BACKBONES
The Year in Mac Security 2008: An Annual Report from Intego
A look back at the 2008 Mac malware and threats

SANS INTERNET STORM CENTER
JournalSpace Demise Attributed to RAID
Speculation that a malicious insider or software error overwrote JournalSpace's primary and mirror disks containing its database


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Bugs
ENTERPRISE VULNERABILITIES
Vulnerability:courtier-authlib
Published:2008-12-22
Severity:Medium
Description:SQL injection vulnerability in authpgsqllib.c in Courier-Authlib before 0.62.0, when a non-Latin locale Postgres database is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via query parameters containing apostrophes.
Vulnerability:skype extension for firefox
Published:2008-12-22
Severity:Medium
Description:The skype_tool.copy_num method in the Skype extension BETA 2.2.0.95 for Firefox allows remote attackers to write arbitrary data to the clipboard via a string argument.
Vulnerability:konqueror
Published:2008-12-22
Severity:Medium
Description:HTMLTokenizer::scriptHandler in Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid document.load call that triggers use of a deleted object. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Vulnerability:opensolaris, solaris
Published:2008-12-22
Severity:Medium
Description:The name service cache daemon (nscd) in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_50 through snv_104 does not properly check permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerability:kernel
Published:2008-12-22
Severity:Medium
Description:libata in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.9 does not set minimum timeouts for SG_IO requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Programmed I/O mode on drives) via multiple simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program.


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