Obama's Coal Stance, in Kentucky and Beyond
blog.washingtonpost.com — Environmentalists have been critical of Obama's complicated record on coal issues. On behalf of coal miners in southern Illinois, he secured $200 million in the federal budget last year for "clean coal" technologies. (Submitted by booksnmore4you) More...
New Tool to Automate Cookie Stealing from Gmail, Others
blog.washingtonpost.com — If you use Gmail and haven't yet taken advantage of a feature Google 
unveiled last week to prevent hackers from hijacking your inbox, now would be an excellent time to do that.A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox .. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Three Quarters of Malicious Web Sites Are Hacked
blog.washingtonpost.com — Three-quarters of all Web sites that try to foist malicious software on visitors are legitimate sites that have been hacked, a report released today found. Even worse, most of these compromised sites are social networking communities and some of the Internet's most popular destinations. (Submitted by inactive) More...
The Newest You Tube Stars: Campaign Managers
blog.washingtonpost.com — As of yesterday afternoon, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama had uploaded 1,410 videos on their YouTube channels -- 224 from McCain and 1,186 from Obama. Surprisingly, some of the more interesting, revealing of these videos were posted by their campaign managers. (Submitted by devoted) More...
Man Gets 4 Years for ID Theft, Software Piracy
blog.washingtonpost.com — A 23-year-old Oregon man was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for using computer viruses to steal financial data from dozens of consumers. Investigators say the man used the information to set up multiple eBay and PayPal accounts, which helped him sell more than $1 million worth of pirated software. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Some People Will Never Give Up on the Google Bomb
blog.washingtonpost.com — That's right, the online behemoth best known for its search engine says that it has rejiggered its legendary and proprietary technology so that online efforts by bloggers to manipulate its top-secret search algorithm to create cheeky, offensive and decidedly off-message answers to searches will no longer work. (Submitted by jaybol) More...
Firefox 3 Follows IE7's Security Settings
blog.washingtonpost.com — Firefox 3 users, who also have jacked up the security settings on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level, may find it trickier to download files with Firefox due to key changes recently made by Mozilla. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Maliki "Clarification" Came After Pressure from U.S.
blog.washingtonpost.com — The statement by an aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki calling his remarks in Der Spiegel "misinterpreted and mistranslated" followed a call to the prime minister's office from U.S. government officials in Iraq. (Submitted by cg4et) More...
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