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  • Yahoo pipes xss exploit for sale
  • LulzSec versus Sony Pictures – Pastebin.com
  • Opening .zipx files on Mac OS X
  • MacDefender – FakeAV for Macs
  • Edward Tufte – The Information Sage
  • Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security
  • Amazon Outage
  • O’reilly Tracking Discovery Unoriginal
  • Quicksilver development starting up again
  • Verizon DBIR 2011
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    Yahoo pipes xss exploit for sale

    June 7th, 2011 · No Comments

    http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/05/17/spurned-by-yahoo-hacker-puts…

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    LulzSec versus Sony Pictures – Pastebin.com

    June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

    http://pastebin.com/Y38gCS82 It’s dangerous out there.

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    Opening .zipx files on Mac OS X

    May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

    Mac’s built-in Archive Utility doesn’t seem to work for .zipx files.  Neither does my version of Stuffit.  The free Unarchiver worked just fine:http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

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    MacDefender – FakeAV for Macs

    May 19th, 2011 · No Comments

    The title of this article is a bit misleading: Massive Malware Outbreak Hits Mac OS, Customer Care Told Not To Assist Customers http://www.itproportal.com/2011/05/19/massive-malware-outbreak-hits-mac-os-cu… The title makes you think there is some gaping hole in OS X that’s been exploited. The attackers don’t need gaping holes when they use social engineering tricks. Malware will run on [...]

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    Edward Tufte – The Information Sage

    May 14th, 2011 · No Comments

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php?page=1 An article about Edward Tufte, the author of “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”.via Gunnar Peterson on the [Securitymetrics mailing list](http://securitymetrics.org/content/Wiki.jsp).

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    Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security

    May 14th, 2011 · No Comments

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/

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    Amazon Outage

    May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

    WSJ Article Amazon said the primary outage occurred in a data center in northern Virginia when a configuration change to shift traffic was performed incorrectly. The network change was part of a normal scaling activity and was intended to upgrade capacity of the primary network in the data center. So, was this all caused by [...]

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    O’reilly Tracking Discovery Unoriginal

    April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

    https://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-major-issues-with-the-latest-iphone-tracking-discovery/ In the spirit of academia, due diligence is a must to determine who else has done such research. Mr. Allan, Mr. Warden, and O’Reilly have overlooked and failed to cite an entire area of research that has already been done on this subject and claimed full authorship of it.

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    Quicksilver development starting up again

    April 25th, 2011 · No Comments

    Just when I was about to give up on it…http://www.macworld.com/article/159353/2011/04/quicksilver.html

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    Verizon DBIR 2011

    April 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

    http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_data-breach-investigation…

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