Robert Lemos

A security researcher warns that an insecure update mechanism for some of the open-source browser’s third-party add-ons could allow an attacker the ability to install malicious code.
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Attackers compromise the hub servers of the DC++ peer-to-peer network, turning hundreds of thousands of clients into hard-to-stop distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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From the Somewhat-related-to-Chinese-gold-stealers department, there is a documentary being made about Chinese gold farmers in online games, such as World of Warcraft and Legacy, that looks phenomenal. The director, Ge Jin, is a PhD student in the Department of Communications at the University of California at San Diego and has already interviewed gold farmers in [...]

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A Congressional committee calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.
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Wired Magazine has a nice feature article on the Linkin Park cyberstalking incident, including extensive interviews with the private investigator involved and with the Linkin Park lead singer Chester Charlie Bennington and his wife.

The case hit the press last November, when investigators arrested a 29-year-old employee of Sandia National Labs for allegedly committing the crimes.

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Only a few weeks after researchers raised the design issue in the next-generation Internet protocol, two drafts to the Internet Engineering Task Force propose different fixes.
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