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• Advanced Notification on Thursday

Patch Tuesday

• Apple 2008-005, 35 fixes – Fixes DNS

• Apple Remote Desktop 3.2.2

• Apple Safari 3.1.2 for OS X 10.4.11

• Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 • Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 7

– 51 java fixes

• Apple TV 2.2

Holes / Patches

Hacking • Yahoo launches 3rd party apps a la Facebook

• NVD updated, NIST incorporates Mitre’s Common Platform Enumeration

• iPhone screen shots everything

• Tel Aviv University professor uses kernel mod to detect malware

• Elvis IS alive, gets new passport– More RFID passport cloning

• Captcha, still busted– New MS captcha busted

Holes / Patches• Cisco semi-annual patch

release, 12 patches, 10 critical

• Firefox

• WordPress, column truncation allows password reset

Data Loss

• attrition moves data loss db to DataLossDB.org

Corp. Hell• Comcast drops usenet

• slot music - preloaded micro sd cards drm free

• ASUS includes cracks on recovery disc

• Indian Government Cracks RIM

• Windows 7 trims apps (but keeps legacy backwards compatibility)

• Microsoft “Cloud” to be launched

Papers

New PCI revision 1.2

Games

• Spore DRM, Class Action Suite

• Unreal Tournament 3, directory traversal

WTF

• UCSniff, not yet released

• nmap 4.76

• Custom THC version of rfidiot

• Openstego .05.0

• BruteForceBlocker 1.2

Updates

CON Events

• OWASP – Click Jacking

• Shmoo Con CFP

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