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Major security hole found in iPhone

Gizmodo has unearthed a security flaw in the iPhone OS and boy is it a doozy. According to the post it’s simple to access a locked iPhone’s address book, Mail, SMS, Contacts, and Safari.
The vulnerability works like this on a password protected and locked iPhone:

Then slide to unlock
Tap emergency call
Double tap the home button

This give [...]


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Tapulous developer fired

Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out.
Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post.
So it came to pass that when my Engineering and Design team had irreconcilable differences with where the company seemed [...]


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Apple bans murderous comic

Apple has banned an R-rated comic from the App Store called Murderdome for violating a term in their SDK that prohibits offensive content in “Apple’s reasonable opinion.”
In a blog post the InfuriousComics says “we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can be put in place to allow material that [...]


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Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practices

Those following the Psystar saga will be interested to know that the Miami-based clone maker has fired a salvo in their legal battle with Apple. Psystar has been selling Apple clones with Mac OS Leopard pre-installed since April 2008.
At a press conference yesterday Psystar CEO Rudy Pedraza said that his company is answering Apple’s copyright [...]


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Consumers to Test Hydrogen Car Prototypes

Automakers such as GM, Honda Motor Co. and BMW AG are putting several hundred hydrogen vehicles into suburban garages, in cities and on the highway to see how they fare in day-to-day drivin
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NASA Security Badge Poses Safety Risk

The badge’s metal clasps, if installed backwards, will become a projectile when the badge is opened creating a potential eye injury hazard.
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Oracle Tabs New CFO, Reporting To Safra Catz

Jeff Epstein most recently served as CFO of Oberon Media, a privately held Internet game technology provider and publisher.
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Linux Systems Being Hit By SSH-Key Attacks

The attack appears to rely on stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system and then uses a local kernel exploit to gain root access, whereupon it installs the "phalanx2" rootkit.
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Dell, IBM Revenue Growth Double Overall Server Market

The overall market recorded its ninth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth, increasing sales by 6.4% over the same period a year ago to .9 billion.
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