A flaw found in Apple's iPhone that can allow text messages to sidestep Apple's safeguard is"severe",according to an iPhone security researcher. In a blog post,the researcher,named Pod2g,said that the issue could mean that cyber criminals ...
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Google yesterday said it will pay up to$2 million for major vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser at a second Pwnium hacking contest this fall. Pwn2Own,a rival contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard,will award as much as$200,000 in a ...
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The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen. It is manufactured by Republic of Fritz Hansen. The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style, using state-of-the-art material. It is believed ...
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Plastic electronics hold the promise of cheap, mass-produced devices. But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by "charge traps" in the material. These traps, which have a negative impact on ...
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Microsoft has rebranded the Hotmail service to become Outlook.com. Currently in preview, Outlook.com is being heralded as a re-imagined email service by Microsoft. Further reading Microsoft admits to angering partners with Surface ...
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A common mechanism underlying charge traps in organic electronics has been discovered,leading to a theoretical framework for improved plastic electronics,OLEDs and organic solar cells. During their passage through semiconductors,a ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft last week warned IT administrators that critical vulnerabilities in code licensed from Oracle could give attackers access to Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 systems. Oracle patched the vulnerabilities ...
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A Black Hat volunteer mistakenly sent to 7,500 conference goers a password-reset email that was initially thought to be a phishing attempt. Organizers of the security conference that started Saturday in Las Vegas, quickly released a ...
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Microsoft today patched 16 vulnerabilities, including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update. Of Tuesday's nine security updates, three were ...
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Glass shower doors are convenient in many ways. They keep water in more effectively than shower curtains. They don’t omit the toxic smells that plastic curtains release. They don’t need to be replaced periodically like curtains ...
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Computerworld-The U.S.Department of Homeland Security(DHS)has issued an alert warning of vulnerabilities in a software technology called the Niagara AX Framework,used to manage millions of devices over the Internet. The alert,from the ...
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