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Skype for iPhone makes stealing address books a snap
If you use Skype on an iPhone or iPod touch, Phil Purviance can steal your device's address book simply by sending you a chat message.
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring | Danger Room
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28421" title="obama_schmidt" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2010/07/obama_schmidt.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="488" /> The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come.
The secure webpage hosting addons for Mozilla Firefox was targeted in the same attack that minted a fraudulent authentication credential for Google websites, the maker of the open-source browser said. "DigiNotar informed us that they issued fraudulent certs for addons.mozilla.org in July, and revoked them within a few days of issue," Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's director of Firefox development, wrote in a statement. "In the absence of a full account of mis-issued certificates from DigiNotar, the Mozilla team moved quickly to remove DigiNotar from our root program and protect our users."
Mozilla addons site targeted in same attack that hit Google
Security researchers have discovered a counterfeit web certificate for Google.com circulating on the internet that gives attackers the encryption keys needed to impersonate Gmail and virtually every other digitally signed Google property.
Fraudulent Google credential found in the wild