costly Samsung Tab, FB 'Group' flaw, Ubuntu 10.10, Windows7 Phones, 29 Java Vulns Patch

 Pop-Links@[11-Sep-2010]

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High Costs than Expected of Samsung Galaxy Tablet :

now Apple iPad costs $500 and the leaked cost of Samsung Galaxy Tab is $650 ($400 if you sign 2yrs long contract for services)... are they nuts or what, they got poor resolution and way poor brand-name than Apple... leave all that, its Android based tablet and even after using OpenSource platform they cost high

Link: http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/123579/samsung-galaxy-tab-price-leaked-it-too-high

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 Facebook flaw let you Add Anyone to Group :

 one more flaw recently noticed in Facebook is anyone could be added to a Facebook Group without the account owner's prior permission or choice. Suppose you create a Group and want anyone to be its member just add his/her name in members to be added and mark its 'Privacy' status as 'Closed'. Now, whom all you added as member will be directly added without any confirmation required... nice :)

Link: http://www.itworld.com/internet/123516/whats-wrong-facebooks-group-grope
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Ubuntu 10.10 released

newer version of Ubuntu has been relased on 10-10-2010... its giving games a next-gen graphics overhaul. The kernel 2.6.35 has seen graphics improvement and the OpenGL drivers included are DirectX 11 equivalent. When you will start playing a game or powerful HD Video, it will automatically shift onto nVidia or ATI(now AMD, :( ) card.



Link: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

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 First Look : Windows Phone 7 Hardware

Microsoft CVP Steve Guggenheimer tells how quick and easy Windows Phone 7 would be over newer fancy phone models displayed by him. He displays a Dell Phone (vertical slide-out tactile keyboard); HTC 7Surround, (slide-out speakers with surround sound, 720p video camcorder); and other models from LG, Smasung

Link: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/3394/5cb9da58-c9f3-4001-9fee-9e0c002d3394/WP7Gugg_2MB_ch9.wmv
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Oracle made Java Critical Patch Update pre-release Announcement

The announcement is for 12th October 2010. The patch contains 29 security vulnerabilties fixes.
Products affected are
JDK, JRE 6 Update 21 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux
JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 25 and earlier for Windows, Solaris and Linux
SDK and JRE 1.4.2_27 and earlier for Windows, Solaris and Linux

Link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2010-176258.html

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BruCon Destroy Companies, What Is Orkut XSS, Facebook outage cause, ASF Millionth Commit and e-Skin for Robo

Pop-Link@[26-Sep-2010]

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@BruCon: Top 5 Ways to Destroy a company

Tarnish the Brand >> Alter Product >> Attack Employees >> Effect financial >> Your-Turn
Article: http://blog.c22.cc/2010/09/25/brucon-top-5-ways-to-destroy-a-company/
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Orkut XSS demystified, gotta see the Javascript pattern used to launch 'Bom Sabado' attack on 25th Sep'2010
Article: http://antrix.net/posts/2007/orkut-xss/

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Details on Facebook outage on 24-Sep-2010 for 2.5 hours.A flawed handling of error-handling via an automated system for configurations caused damage.
Article: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=431441338919&id=9445547199&ref=mf
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Apache Software Foundation hits its MILLIONTH Commit on 22nd Sep'2010 by ASF Member Yonik on behalf of Apache Lucene Project. Congratulations!!! to ASF on awesome contribution to community.
Article: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_hits_its_millionth

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Pressure Sensitive 'e-Skin' for new generation Robotics has been fabricated by UC Berkley's Scientists using semi-conductor nano-wires
Article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5803350/pressure_sensitive_eskin_revolutionizes.html?cat=15
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Facebook Phone, Mandriva Forked, Social Spy, Suse on Sale, NetFlix Hit

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Facebook is up building a phone (android based), claiming to aim for a platform not just a phone...
Article: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-facebook-is-secretly-building-a-phone-it-needs-to-be-a-platform-not-just-a-service-2010-9


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A new Linux Distro forked from Mandriva... Mageia
Article: http://www.mageia.org/





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Corporate web monitoring of their employees social activities, mail & chat habits
Article: http://www.darkreading.com/security_monitoring/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227500152

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NetFlix causing big losses to Cable TV
Article: http://www.businessinsider.com/30-of-young-netflix-subscribers-are-cutting-the-cable-cord-2010-9



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VMWare is trying to buy over SUSE Linux from Novell's Linux Software Unit
Article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440604575496053490383496.html

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faulty (Diaspora, CIA , Facebook, Adobe), MS Secured, Botnet Sales

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The Open-Source initiative to replace Facebook, Diaspora isn't yet close to secure... need a lot more hardwork.


Article: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/17/alert-raised-over-diaspora-security/

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Netezza bought geospatial softwares from IISI, reverse engineered it and sold flawed version to 'CIA' ...Big Daddy got Conned and used hacked software for its Drones

Article: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/cia-drone-program-using-hacked-software-company-claims/19638508

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Facebook, turning out to be the second name for Social Networking is also turning out to be the biggest Malware Infection source.

Article: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1466

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SpyEye, a famous botnet kit not only let botnet owners steal Credit Card information but also let them make fake sales from any site where the many can be transferred using a cart.


Article: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/09/spyeye-botnets-bogus-billing-feature/

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'EMET' i.e. Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit by Micorsoft to make your computing experience more secure computing by securing any kind of application running over Windows to be exploited for its vulnerabilties.

Article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/09/02/enhanced-mitigation-experience-toolkit-emet-v2-0-0.aspx

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I don't beleive Adobe is still caught in 'strcat' over 'strncat' issues for Security... well its a well big bloated organization with big bloated code.

Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/unofficial_adobe_reader_patch/

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Just for fun and Self-reminder... Epic Failures : 11 Infamous Software Bugs

Article: http://www.itworld.com/software/120117/epic-failures-11-infamous-software-bugs

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