Once again, the iPhone is safe for text messaging. Apple on Friday distributed iPhone OS 3.0.1, a point release to the operating system that addresses a security vulnerability that could have allowed a malicious hacker to seize control of an iPhone with an unusual SMS text message.
There’s a critical security hole in Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s flagship browser. Well, there’s a shocker. IE’s catalog of vulnerabilities and the security bulletins announcing them are so voluminous and overlarge at this point, it takes Security Focus 18 pages to list them all. So reports today that IE suffers from a vulnerability that affords attackers access to any sensitive data on your PC isn’t unusual. What is unusual is that the flaw–found in all versions of the browser–is being widely exploited.
Today is fast turning into an ugly one for Apple. In the past 24 hours the company has been beset by bad news. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that one of the company’s iPhone ads is misleading. Apple is also being accused of censorship after banning the Murderdrome comic from the App Store. And now a nasty security bug has surfaced in the company’s iPhone.
If one set out to design electronic voting machines that undermine voter confidence and threaten the integrity and accuracy of the whole election process, it would be hard to outdo those of Diebold Election Systems, if a new analysis is to be believed.
The California Secretary of State has finally released the source-code review portion of [...]
With the presidential primary approaching, Diebold Election Systems is finally developing a voter-verified paper trail–of bad press. Earlier this week, the company made headlines when a team of investigators found the company made headlines when a team of investigators found another government-ordered study that found its optical-scanning machines to be flawed as well.
Here’s an unintended, but perhaps inevitable, corollary to the iPhone’s success: the proof-of-concept security exploit. Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have discovered a vulnerability that could give an attacker unfettered access to an iPhone, with administrator privileges, and they have written a bit of code to demonstrate it. “In our proof of concept, this code [...]
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While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
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