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• New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes

  Trailrunner7 writes "There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending emails containing malicious executables to all of the names in a user's email address book. The worm arrives via emails with the subject line 'Here You Have' or something...

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  September 9, 2010, 4:24 pm| Read full article

• Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams

  Gadgetank writes "Researchers out of the Australian National University have created a device, working in conjunction with other necessary devices, that can literally move small particles with light. And only light. The way it works is by shining a hollow laser beam around some tiny glass particles. The researchers heat...

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  September 9, 2010, 2:42 pm| Read full article

• Broadcom Releases Source Code For Drivers

  I'm Not There (1956) writes "Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources its Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they use Linux on their laptops. With these device drivers now...

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  September 9, 2010, 2:18 pm| Read full article

• Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4

  An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 build that integrates a new JavaScript engine that aims to match the performance in IE9 and reduces the gap to Safari, Opera and Chrome. This is really the big news we have been waiting for all along with Firefox...

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  September 9, 2010, 1:37 pm| Read full article

• Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad

  Stoobalou writes "The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to...

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  September 9, 2010, 12:06 pm| Read full article

• T-Mobile To Begin HTC G2 Preorders

  cgriffin21 writes "T-Mobile Thursday finally confirmed what it's been hinting at for a while: The HTC G2, T-Mobile's HSPA+ successor to the HTC G1, is on the way. It'll be an Android 2.2 phone and run on T-Mobile's HSPA+ data network, which while not a 4G network offers what T-Mobile...

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  September 9, 2010, 11:25 am| Read full article

• New Adobe PDF Zero-Day Under Attack

  Rahmmp writes "Adobe has sounded an alarm for a new zero-day flaw in its PDF Reader/Acrobat software, warning that hackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability in-the-wild. An Adobe spokeswoman described the attacks as 'limited' but warned that that could change with the availability of public samples and exploit code." Read...

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  September 9, 2010, 11:08 am| Read full article

• DHS CyberSecurity Misses 1085 Holes On Own Network

  Tootech writes "In a case of 'physician, heal thyself,' the agency — which forms the operational arm of DHS's National Cyber Security Division, or NCSD — failed to keep its own systems up to date with the latest software patches. Auditors working for the DHS inspector general ran a sweep...

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  September 9, 2010, 11:08 am| Read full article

• Biometric IDs For Every Indian Citizen

  wiedzmin writes "This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every...

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  September 9, 2010, 10:42 am| Read full article

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