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Security researchers from Independent Security Evaluators managed to hack a MacBook Air using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.

By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
March 28, 2008
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207000434

Mac OS X’s reputation for security was tarnished Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) managed to hack a MacBook Air in two minutes using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.

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Telefon bimbit tidak sebabkan kanser otak

LONDON 6 Feb. _ Sekumpulan saintis dari Jepun mendapati penggunaan telefon bimbit tidak menyumbang kepada peningkatan risiko jangkitan kanser otak seperti yang didakwa sebelum ini.

Saintis dari Universiti Perubatan Wanita Tokyo itu menjalankan kajian penggunaan telefon bimbit di kalangan 322 pesakit kanser dan 683 pengguna yang sihat.

Hasil kajian yang diterbitkan dalam Jurnal Kanser Britain itu mendapati, penggunaan telefon bimbit secara kerap tidak menunjukkan tanda-tanda jangkitan kanser otak.

Selain itu, kumpulan penyelidik turut menjalankan kajian mengenai sinar radiasi daripada pelbagai jenis telefon bimbit bagi mengenal pasti kemungkinan penggunaannya memberi kesan kepada bahagian otak yang berbeza.

“Dengan menggunakan kaedah dan teknik terbaru yang kami bangunkan, didapati tiada kaitan antara penggunaan telefon bimbit dengan kanser, sekali gus membuktikan telefon bimbit tidak menyebabkan kanser otak,” kata ketua kumpulan berkenaan, Naohito Yamaguchi. - Reuters

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Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! Inc. to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance in Internet search services and advertising.

The $31-a-share bid of cash or Microsoft stock is 62 percent more than Yahoo’s closing price yesterday. Yahoo, which posted a 23 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit this week, had fallen 18 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading this year before today. Microsoft fell the most since 2006 as investors expressed disapproval of the deal.

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is attempting the biggest-ever technology takeover after failing to compete with Google in a market that may almost double to $80 billion by 2010. Microsoft’s shares have dropped more than 40 percent since Ballmer took over from co-founder Bill Gates in 2000.

“With Microsoft paying a full price for a broken business where there’s not accelerating organic growth, I can’t make that work at all,'’ said Jon Fisher, a Minneapolis-based portfolio manager at Fifth Third Asset Management, which manages $22 billion, including Microsoft shares. “I don’t see what they get out of it. The strategy behind the deal was wrong.'’

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Microsoft late last week released an updated test version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to about 15,000 beta testers. The update, the third such service pack for the six-year-old operating system is due out in final form in the first half of next year. The company said before its final release it expects to issue a public test version of the service pack, though it did not provide more specificity than at “a later date.”

“We are targeting (the first half of) 2008 for the release of XP SP3,” Microsoft said, “though our timing will always be based on customer feedback as a first priority.”

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SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers have launched a rare and troubling attack on Apple Inc.’s computers.

Apple on Thursday confirmed reports of pornography Web sites where hidden software, once downloaded, could take control of an Apple computer. Apple did not immediately respond to claims that it is the first instance of a Trojan horse attack on Apple’s Macintosh platform.

“We’ve been made aware that a small number of Web sites attempt to trick Mac OS X users to install malicious software on their Macs,” said Apple spokeswoman Lynn Fox. “Apple has a great track record for keeping Mac OS X users secure, and as always, we encourage people to install software only from trusted sources.”

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