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Daily Archives: March 2, 2008
Spammers find a way to abuse out-of-office replies
We’ve all recieved those helpful out-of-office replies when someone is not going to respond to your email for a while. At work, I always like recieving these because then I know I shouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a response … Continue reading
Collaborative Current Event: Counterfeit Cisco Network Hardware Imported From China Seized
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/29/us-canadian-agencies-seize-counterfeit-cisco-gear USA and Canadian law enforcement has seized US$78 million worth of Cisco routers, switches, and network cards in 400 seizures since the coordinated operation between the two nations was launched in 2005. The reason for the seizures is “illegal … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Integrity, Policy
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Current Event: Wikileaks — a source of private and leaked information
On Februrary 19, 2008, the Wikileaks domain name was shut down as a result of a lawsuit filed by a group of Swiss bankers. Wikileaks is a website where people can confidentially and anonymously post sensitive, often leaked, information.
Posted in Current Events
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Humanoid Robot has future in Japan
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_re_as/japan_robot_nation;_ylt=AoX4B6VHVtvql_qBo0RBZj8jtBAF
http://www.stat.go.jp/English/data/handbook/c02cont.htm Continue reading
Security Vulnerability in Mac OS X – LoginWindow.app
A security vulnerability in loginwindow.app on Mac OS X was reported to bugtraq this week. The vulnerability is that the user password is still resident in memory after the system authenticates the user.
Posted in Current Events, Privacy
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