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The Pownce Worm (Yet Another Potential AJAX Worm)
via GNUCITIZEN by pdp on February 13, 2008
First of all I need to let you know that it is not within our practice to disclose vulnerabilities on specific online applications. However, given the fact that Pownce, the vendor, was responsibly informed and the fact that we believe that the issue is interesting enough to be discussed, we’ve decided to let you know about our findings. First of all, what’s Pownce:Pownce is a social...
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BitTorrent peer list encryption
via root labs rdist by Nate Lawson on February 18, 2008
BitTorrent has added a new method for encrypting peer lists. This is an attempt to avoid ISPs (such as Comcast) blocking connections that seem to be P2P traffic, as I previously wrote. This extension’s advantages and limitations are a good example for illustrating the fundamental leverage both sides have in this battle.The actual extension is pretty straightforward. Trackers manage files...
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Weblog Tools Collection: FeedBurner: No more all time feed stats
via WordPress Planet by Mark Ghosh on February 19, 2008
FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats: I know I have looked at my all time feed stats in the past but since it would take forever to generate and timed out the last time I tried it, I am not sure this is a big loss for me. However, worthy of note is the fact that FeedBurner has languished quite a bit since being purchased by Google and they seem to have rested their laurels after...
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Getting started with Google Grants
via Google Grants Blog by Google Grants Team Member on February 20, 2008
Posted by Jessica, Google Grants TeamIf you were just awarded a Google Grant, welcome to the program! We look forward to helping your organization make the most of AdWords.Your first step: sign into your AdWords account using the email address and temporary password you received in your welcome email. You may want to bookmark the sign in page for future reference.Then, select My Account > Account...
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Advanced English?
via Disenchant's Blog by Disenchant on February 28, 2008
As you might know, I’m actually studying computer science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Engineering and Information Technology. Yesterday we had English lessons and I’m in the advanced group, which is the highest level we can attend in this semester. So let’s have a look at an exercise we’ve done in this lesson and I really think, that anyone who can read my blog should ask...
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Foxkeh wallpapers, March 2008
via Foxkeh's Blog by (author unknown) on February 27, 2008
Foxkeh's March wallpapers are ready! We would like to thank you again for the many great ideas about which sports Foxkeh should try this month. Several people requested football. This month, Foxkeh plays football, but not the traditional game enjoyed around the world. He plays the Japanese traditional football game called Kemari that was popular in Japan during the Heian Period, from the...
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Hard core porn invasion on Google Groups
via Sunbelt Blog by Sunbelt Software Blog on March 02, 2008
We’ve just started seeing a hard-core porn invasion on Google Groups. So far, we have identified approximately 270 Google Groups pages with this porn. List here (pdf).images below, offensive content has been obfuscated. These pages push other porn pages for profit. While not all of the redirects go to malware sites, we did observe some redirects to a site which ultimately pushes a fake...
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Summer's right around the corner
via Google Code Blog by Leslie Hawthorn on March 04, 2008
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamIt may only be March, but the heat is on — Google Summer of Code is back for 2008! Last year, nearly 900 students teamed up with over 2,000 mentors to write millions of lines of code. We're looking forward to another year of introducing university students to open source development and helping our colleagues in the open source world find new contributors...
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Enso is now free
via Planet Compiz Fusion by Guillaume Seguin on March 06, 2008
It’s now official, Enso, a really awesome tool that integrates smoothly into your desktop and enables you to perform several otherwise boring actions by just using your keyboard in a very simple way (check Humanized website for a better description), has just been open sourced under a BSD-like license. It’s written in Python and uses Cairo for the rendering, and the end result is really...
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