En 35-årig kvinna hittade ett kuvert med tre tipskuponger, som en spelare tappat, på Stortorget i Malmö. Men i stället för att gå till polisen, ringde kvinnan och hennes mamma till Svenska spel. Då fick de veta att kupongerna gett vinst, sammanlagt mer än en halv miljon kronor.

1sockchuck writes: A massive solar array in central New Jersey provides the daytime power for a server farm delivering online financial services for McGraw Hill. The 50-acre field of photovoltaic solar panels symbolizes a new phase in the use of renewable energy in data centers. Massive arrays can now provide tens of megawatts of solar power for companies (including Apple) that can afford the land and the expense. But some data center thought leaders argue that these huge fields are more about marketing than genuinely finding the best approach to a greener cloud.

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Yesterday, a number of news sites published speculative reports about a possible OpenSSLbug to be fixed today. According to these reports, the bug affects SSL 3, and is critical. We did receive a lot of inquiries around these news reports, but so far, we got only one little announcement from the OpenBSD camp to go by:

So far, there hasnt been any official release from OpenSSL.org, but OpenBSD"> /* if it went, fall through and send more stuff */+/* we may have released our buffer, so get it again */+if (wb-buf == NULL)+if (!ssl3_setup_write_buffer(s))+ }

This looks like a memory corruption / use after free vulnerability is being patched.

We will update this post as we learn more. At this point: Dont panic and wait for a patch from your respective Linux vendor. We are not aware of any active exploitation of this problem, but please let us know if you see any evidence of that happening.

[1]http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/005_openssl.patch.sig

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

Yesterday, a number of news sites published speculative reports about a possible OpenSSLbug to be fixed today. According to these reports, the bug affects SSL 3, and is critical. We did receive a lot of inquiries around these news reports, but so far, we got only one little announcement from the OpenBSD camp to go by:

So far, there hasnt been any official release from OpenSSL.org, but OpenBSD"> /* if it went, fall through and send more stuff */+/* we may have released our buffer, so get it again */+if (wb-buf == NULL)+if (!ssl3_setup_write_buffer(s))+ }

This looks like a memory corruption / use after free vulnerability is being patched.

We will update this post as we learn more. At this point: Dont panic and wait for a patch from your respective Linux vendor. We are not aware of any active exploitation of this problem, but please let us know if you see any evidence of that happening.

[1]http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/005_openssl.patch.sig

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
STI|Twitter|LinkedIn

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

As the recent celebrity photo thefts showed, Apple now faces the cloud-security challenges that few other companies — even international banks — have had to address so far.

 

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As the recent celebrity photo thefts showed, Apple now faces the cloud-security challenges that few other companies — even international banks — have had to address so far.

 

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Efter nära 40 år vid makten kan Moçambiques styrande parti Frelimo inte längre se makten som självskriven. Oppositionen har vuxit sig stark i städerna och ungdomen vill se förändring.

Efter nära 40 år vid makten kan Moçambiques styrande parti Frelimo inte längre se makten som självskriven. Oppositionen har vuxit sig stark i städerna och ungdomen vill se förändring.

En man som 2003 dömdes till livstids fängelse för ett sprängattentat utanför Umeå tingsrätt har fått sitt straff tidsbestämt, skriver Folkbladet i Västerbotten på nätet.

En man som 2003 dömdes till livstids fängelse för ett sprängattentat utanför Umeå tingsrätt har fått sitt straff tidsbestämt, skriver Folkbladet i Västerbotten på nätet.

Andelen ungdomar som oroar sig för främlingsfientlighet ökar - samtidigt som andelen unga som oroar sig för invandring minskar. Det visar en ny undersökning från Forum för levande historia.

Andelen ungdomar som oroar sig för främlingsfientlighet ökar - samtidigt som andelen unga som oroar sig för invandring minskar. Det visar en ny undersökning från Forum för levande historia.

gthuang88 writes: Spider silk is touted for its strength and potential to be used in body armor, sports gear, and even artificial tendons and implants. Now several companies including EntoGenetics, Kraig Labs, and Araknitek have developed genetic approaches to producing commercial quantities of the stuff. One method is to implant spider genes into silkworms, which then act as spider-silk factories. Another is to place the gene that encodes spider web production into the DNA of goats; these "spidergoats" then produce milk containing spider-silk proteins that can be extracted. There's still a long way to go, however, and big companies like DuPont and BASF have tried and failed to commercialize similar materials.

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