RPost Office Delivers; Poor Database Security Leads to Drugs Crossing the Border; LulzSec Bailed Out; Facebook Ads May Feature You; And More
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RPost Office; Drug Smuggling Scheme Teaches Database Security
Lesson; Suspected LulzSec Hacker Released on Bail in U.K.
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RPost Office
Just as when you stamp a letter, you pay a little bit each time
you use RPost's services to send registered email, encrypt and
digitally sign messages, or send a contract for signature. It's
definitely worthwhile, as long as you reserve its use for
communication that's truly important.
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Drug Smuggling Scheme Teaches Database Security Lesson
Too-easy access to a database of keys and VINs allowed drug
smugglers to use unwitting innocent people to move drugs across
the Mexico-US border.
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Suspected LulzSec Hacker Released on Bail in U.K.
An unnamed teen may be LulzSec co-founder "T-Flow." In related
news, Dutch authorities reportedly released four suspected
Anonymous hackers for cooperating with police.
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You're In a Facebook Ad! How'd That Happen?
AppSumo, a site which does "Web deals," has a history
of "mistakenly" using the names of famous people to promote
themselves.
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Apple Plugs Holes in iOS, iWork
An SSL certificate-handling error on iOS could allow man-in-the-
middle attacks. Three iWork errors handling Microsoft Office
documents could take result in the machine being taken over.
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Anonymous to FBI: You Can't Arrest an Idea
In an open letter, affiliated hacking groups challenge the FBI's
effort to shut them down, vow to "continue the fight" against
governments and corporations.
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Is 2011 Finally the Actual Year of Mobile Malware?
Android malware authors are getting clever about their installer
designs in order to make it easier to install and update their
code.
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