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Yesterday, I wrote up my take on the recent Australian bomb-hoax story, in which a suspect was tracked from Sydney to Kentucky through a mixture of old-fashioned detective legwork and cyberinvestigation. I suggested that making this sort of investigation as easy as it seems on crass TV cop shows would be a bad idea: There […]

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While the status of Google+ invites keep switching from “live to dead to back to gone again”, it’s worth noting that you’ll see some weird and wonderful things while hunting for invites. You’ll also see this: Click to Enlarge “Free Google+ invites instantly”? Opening the short URL presents you with – oh, I’ll let you […]

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Symantec Security Response has confirmed that the Microsoft Internet Explorer Time Element Uninitialized Memory Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability itself affects IE versions 6, 7, and 8. However, the exploit we have acquired seems to only affect version 8. Microsoft has already released patches as part of the MS […]

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