dcblogs writes "China is on track to overtake the U.S. in spending on research and development in about 10 years, as federal R&D spending either declines or remains flat. The U.S. today maintains a large lead in spending over China, with federal and private sector investment expected to reach $424 billion next year, a 1.2% increase. By contrast, China's overall R&D spending is $220 billion next year, an increase of 11.6% over 2012, a rate similar to previous years. This finding is shared by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 'China's investment as a percentage of its GDP shows continuing, deliberate growth that, if it continues, should surpass the roughly flat United States investment within a decade,' it said in a report last month."

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Copahue volcano, in Argentina's southwestern Neuquen province, near Chilean border, has been spewing ash and gas.

We wish all our readers Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a lot with your families tonight. We will continue meanwhile watching what happens on the Internet ;)

Manuel Humberto Santander Pelez

SANS Internet Storm Center - Handler

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Polischef: De lockades troligen in i en fälla genom larmet.

”Oacceptabel provokation”, anser Nordkorea om juldekorationer som kristna sydkoreaner riggat upp vid den befästa gränsen mellan Nord- och Sydkorea.

Dancer in a box

Wrap any simple class as a service for Dancer

class to access the function of translation provided by "Bing Translation Api".

According to chromium blog, Google Chrome 25 wont allow anymore silent extensions installs. This is good, because attacks like the Chrome malicious extension injecting ads to wikimedia pages in may. This is similar to Internet Explorer Protected Mode, which does not allow extension installations and Firefox add-on control since Firefox 8.


This kind of controls enforce the security settings described in the corresponding security templates of web browsers. So far, the only browser that posess the most scalable security baseline is still Internet Explorer, as there are specific Global Policy Objects (GPO) to apply for Internet Explorer. Google Chrome also have security templates with the corresponding documentation, but you need to build your own GPO to deploy to a Windows Domain. For Firefox, FirefoxADM is able to generate Security GPO to manage security parameters.


Have you suffered lately any attacks regarding malicious extensions for Chrome? For Firefox or Internet Explorer? Let us know!

Manuel Humberto Santander Pelez

SANS Internet Storm Center - Handler

Twitter:@manuelsantander

Web:http://manuel.santander.name

e-mail: msantand at isc dot sans dot org
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

alphadogg writes "As a new session of Congress convenes in early 2013, don't expect lawmakers to rush out a new version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the Protect IP Act (PIPA). While some groups representing copyright holders still want to see stronger online enforcement, U.S. lawmakers don't seem to have the collective will to reintroduce similar bills and potentially face another massive online protest. In January 2012, more than 10 million Web users signed petitions, 8 million attempted calls to Congress and 4 million sent email messages, and more than 100,000 websites went dark in protest as the Senate scheduled a vote on PIPA. Lawmakers supporting the two bills baled out in droves, Senate leaders cancelled the PIPA vote, and SOPA's sponsor in the House of Representatives withdrew his legislation. 'That was an avalanche they've never seen,' said Ed Black, head of the Computer and Communications Industry Association. 'They're going to tiptoe in this area very carefully.'"

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