Robert Lemos

Space industry executives lamented Wednesday that the United States will likely have to rely on other countries to send men, women and materials into space. The nation’s most visible launch vehicle, the space shuttle, will have its wings clipped in 2010, and current plans for a successor rocket to lift cargo and crew into orbit won’t come to fruition until at least 2015, when the first Ares rockets make it to the launch pad.
Wired News

The public will have to overcome its squeamishness about nuclear power, if current plans for space missions and manned outposts are ever to become reality, industry experts told attendees at the Space 2007 conference this week.
Wired News

Numerous account holders complained over the past year that the consumer brokerage had sold or leaked e-mail addresses to pump-and-dump spammers.
SecurityFocus

Federal prosecutors charge former security consultant Max Butler, better known amongst security researchers as “Max Vision,” alleging that he supplied and managed a ring of identity thieves.
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The security researcher that posted the e-mail addresses and passwords for 100 accounts at embassies and political groups reveals that he exploited the victims’ incorrect usage of the Tor Project’s anonymous Web surfing software.
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Twice in two weeks, the nation has been taken to task for breaching other nations’ systems, but officials continue to deny the accusations.
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A Trojan horse mines Monster.com for personal details that could make fraudulent e-mail schemes more convincing, while evidence mounts that other job sites are also being attacked.
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Scanning a computer infected with the bot software could bring swift retribution, warns the response center for academic networks.
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Researchers find that browsers and plug-ins could be exploited to turn a victim’s computer into a door to the internal network. One study finds an attack could claim 100,000 IP addresses in three days.
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Universities and colleges could find more students interested in computer-science courses, if the teachers taught practical hacking, educators say.
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