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Ask web developers to name their desert island Firefox extensions (ignoring for now the improbability of having a laptop while stranded), and they're bound to put Firebug at or near the top of their lists.

NASA finds a virus on a computer in International Space Station! - 3 Hours ago

US space agency NASA has confirmed that one of the laptops on the international space station was found infected with a computer virus. NASA did not reveal much but did say that it was not the first time

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Researchers offer new tool that finds additional clues of fraudulent Web sites - 6 Hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they've

Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008 - 67 Minutes ago

Julie188 writes 'A Microsoft SQL Server 2005 fan toppled over in surprise when he got this error message from SQL Server 2008 (he was running the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor tool): 'In SQL Server

Changing Customers Password Without Consent - 3 Hours ago

risinganger writes 'BBC News is reporting that a customer had his password changed without his knowledge. After some less than satisfactory service the customer in question changed his password to 'Llyods

Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera - 4 Hours ago

Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor intensive and time consuming. And ultimately the final result might not survive the close scrutiny of those expecting real-world emulations. A new technique

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Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack - 5 Hours ago

Tech Groupie writes 'The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls 'active attacks' against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The

45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? - 6 Hours ago

An anonymous reader writes 'The Great Internet Mersenne Prime (GIMPS) has apparently discovered a new world-record prime number. A GIMPS client computer reported the number on August 23rd, and verification