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The Polish government has presented a new law that would allow services and websites to be blocked without judicial review — based merely on blacklists — and obligate ISPs to provide detailed customer data
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In addition to the crypto algorithm for GSM, security researchers have also cracked the encryption code used for phone calls based on the widely used DECT standard
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Felix "FX" Lindner of the Phenoelit hacker group has presented the open source "Blitzableiter" (lightning rod) tool which checks Flash files and removes potential garbage before playback
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Security researchers Karsten Nohl and Henryk Plötz have read out and cloned Legic’s Prime series radio chip cards
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Firefox 3.6 is to miss its 2009 debut and this change has created other schedule slippages in the Mozilla release plan
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The hole can apparently not be exploited in standard installations. It remains unclear when a patch will become available, but there are instructions for first aid security measures
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According to security researcher Fabian Yamaguchi, the combination of various typical vulnerabilities allows dangerous attacks on many average networks
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Version 9.11 of the XBMC open source media center software plays videos and music in a revised user interface. The developers have also updated the import filters and video codecs included
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Various versions of Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) contain a security flaw that can be exploited to inject and execute malicious code on Windows web servers. The problem occurs during the parsing of file names with semicolon extensions
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A new patent agreement gives users of Moonlight, a Silverlight implementation, more legal security. But the situation for Linux distributors will probably not improve
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