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Adam Savage (co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters) in a Faraday cage dancing to the Dr Who theme song

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Thanks to:
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/27/sony-admits-psn-hacker-may-have-credit-card-details/
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/28/sony-psn-fallout-begins-with-legal-rumbles-and-government-criticism/

The worst fears have been confirmed about the hacking attack on PSN, which has seen the service downed for the last week.

Like everyone else, we guessed this had to be a serious incident to keep the network offline for such a long time while rebuilding the security around it.

And this morning it has emerged that the near 80 million users of PSN have indeed had their personal details compromised by the hacker.

On Tuesday evening, the Android team was made aware of a number of malicious applications published to Android Market. Within minutes of becoming aware, we identified and removed the malicious applications. The applications took advantage of known vulnerabilities which don’t affect Android versions 2.2.2 or higher. For affected devices, we believe that the only information the attacker(s) were able to gather was device-specific (IMEI/IMSI, unique codes which are used to identify mobile devices, and the version of Android running on your device). But given the nature of the exploits, the attacker(s) could access other data, which is why we’ve taken a number of steps to protect those who downloaded a malicious application:

1. We removed the malicious applications from Android Market, suspended the associated developer accounts, and contacted law enforcement about the attack.
2. We are remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. This remote application removal feature is one of many security controls the Android team can use to help protect users from malicious applications.
3. We are pushing an Android Market security update to all affected devices that undoes the exploits to prevent the attacker(s) from accessing any more information from affected devices. If your device has been affected, you will receive an email from android-market-support@google.com over the next 72 hours. You will also receive a notification on your device that “Android Market Security Tool March 2011” has been installed. You may also receive notification(s) on your device that an application has been removed. You are not required to take any action from there; the update will automatically undo the exploit. Within 24 hours of the exploit being undone, you will receive a second email.
4. We are adding a number of measures to help prevent additional malicious applications using similar exploits from being distributed through Android Market and are working with our partners to provide the fix for the underlying security issues.

For more details, please visit the Android Market Help Center. We always encourage you to check the list of permissions when installing an application from Android Market. Security is a priority for the Android team, and we’re committed to building new safeguards to help prevent these kinds of attacks from happening in the future.


Posted by Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead

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Acabo de leerme "Little Brother"...
Os lo aconsejo!

Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. It was released on April 29, 2008. The novel is about several teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights. The novel is also available free on the author's website under a Creative Commons license.^[1]

The book debuted at No. 9 on the New York Times Bestseller List, children's chapter book section, in May 2008.^[2] As of July 2, it had spent a total of six weeks on the list, rising to the No. 8 spot^[3]. Little Brother has also won the 2009 White Pine Award^[4], the 2009 Prometheus Award.^[5] and the 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award

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Por cierto la IP de wikileaks es http://88.80.13.160
(copiada desde su twitter http://twitter.com/wikileaks )

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This is obviously propaganda from those bastards at the Arbor Tree Foundation. Don’t be a victim! If your car has ever been attacked by a tree, speak up. There are people who will listen.

For more oddly specific signs, check out No After-lifeguard On Duty, Just Don’t Touch the Freakin’ Plants, Okay?, and Who Didn’t See That Coming?