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We alerted to this story some days ago but it's now official. Independent researchers Jacob Appelbaum and Alexander Sotirov, as well as computer scientists from the Centrum Wiskunde&Informatica, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley have successfully used 200 PS3's to break of one of the MD5 algorithms used in issuing security certificates for websites. Security certificates are used to confirm that a website is legitimate and not an attempt to mislead the visitor. Once the team broke though the algorithm, they were able to hack into the RapidSSL.com website. After this, the team was able to produce false security certificates that had identical MD5 hash values as legitimate certificates.
APPLE CEO, Steve Jobs has revealed that his doctors have finally found the reason behind his rapid decline in health throughout 2008. Apparently he is suffering from hormone imbalance which robs his body of necessary proteins to stay healthy. It is thought that Jobs has been pressured into coming clean about his health after Apple announced that the enigmatic front man would not be presenting a keynote at this month's Macworld exhibition. His non-attendance at what is usually the biggest Apple event of the year, and where new products are generally announced, has caused much speculation in the tech press about the health of the man credited with saving Apple.
A 17-year-old World of Warcraft player from Ohio, US allegedly told a game moderator that if he didn't get his way he would kill himself. The Blizzard representative called 911, and police and medics were dispatched to the teen's house. The teen told the police that he was frustrated by the game and the threat had been a joke "to try to get what [he] wanted." The police were not amused, and charged the teen with a first-degree misdemeanor.
LG is set to introduce TV sets that can screen Netflix movies directly from the internet. Netflix subscribers who buy one of these devices can hook it up to their TVs to watch movies that can be downloaded from the Internet instantly, as part of their monthly rental plan.
German security researcher Tobias Engel has demonstrated that it is possible to perform a denial-of-service attack, dubbed Curse of Silence, on Nokia Series 60 phones by sending a malformed email message via SMS. An advisory made public by Engel gave details of the attack. After receiving a message from a sender with an email address of greater than 32 characters, Nokia S60 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 and 3.1 devices are not able to receive any more SMS or MMS messages. S60 2.6 and 3.0 devices lock up after one message, while 2.8 and 3.1 devices seize up after 11 messages.
The ongoing military conflict between Israel and Hamas is not just limited to ground and air battles but also the internet. Israel's PR machine is gung-ho for Web 2.0, it seems; the country's armed forces (the IDF) have launched a YouTube channel filled with bomb camera footage, surveillance video, and daily video updates, most designed to show that mosques can harbor weapons caches and elementary schools can be used by mortar teams.
WMP12 beta could corrupt your MP3s. The problem only happens under the following circumstances: the first few seconds of an MP3 file will be cut if the header of the mp3 file is larger than 16 kilobytes and if metadata is written to the file. The corruption will occur either when the user edits the metadata from inside WMP12 or Explorer, or if WMP12 is set to automatically fill in missing metadata using the online service.
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