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As with the story yesterday from the Ukraine, this is something to keep an eye on. The primary concern over Swine Flu is it's potential to mutate into a much more serious disease. Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...

A common challenge of cybercrime investigations is the need to conduct forensic analysis on a computer before it is powered down and restarted. As some active system processes and network data are volatile and may be lost after the computer is turning off, investigators were in search of a tool that could assist them in [...]

What would you do if you saw in your inbox, an email with a PDF named, “U.S. ship thwarts second pirate attack November 18, 2009.pdf”? Would the title pique your curiosity? Hopefully not enough for you open the document! The PDF is the latest in the ugly line of exploit- and malware-ridden embedded PDFs that damage [...]

PHP version 5.3.1 was just released. This release contains a patch for a denial of service condition we've reported some time ago. The problem is related with PHP's handling of RFC 1867 (Form-based File Upload in HTML). When you send a POST request to a PHP script with the content-type of multipart/form-data and include a list of [...]

27 East News reports that the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office has dropped a trespassing charge filed against an East Quogue woman who was arrested in July for taking pictures at the Air National Guard base in Westhampton with two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in her car. The misdemeanor charge was dropped [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. ...

It appears Iran may not be the only nuclear concern in the middle east. WTOP reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA' and Syria are walking a tightrope and appear to be headed toward a collision over two nuclear sites where undeclared uranium was recently found. The agency found traces of uranium at the Dair [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...

The son of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Omar, has told a British magazine that he would like to promote peace and work for the United Nations. I do not believe that I would be a good politician I have a habit of speaking the truth, even when it does not serve me well. But [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. ...

McAfee Labs has observed various spam runs exploiting the recent sensational Carrie Prejean news. The Prejean video is rapidly becoming one of the most searched-for topics ever on the net since the existence of the tape became common knowledge. Source: Google Trends Java applets provide everything from interactive features to web applications to advertisements. Since the birth [...]

Developers who want a closer look at the project, however, will get their wish. Effective immediately, Google is releasing the Chrome OS code to the public under an open source license, along with the associated design documents. "As of today, the code will be fully open," said Chrome OS director of engineering Matt Papakipos, "which means Google developers will be working on the same tree as extern...

Holidaymakers who used their Visa or Mastercard credit card in Spain may be at risk of fraud following the reported security breach, which prompted the largest plastic card recall in German history. The Volks and Raiffeisenbank banking group alone recalled 60,000 potentially compromised credit cards as a precautionary measure, AFP reports. Holders of cards issued by DKB-Bank, Barclays and Kar...