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A Power Plant Hack That Anybody Could Use

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August 5, 2011
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A Power Plant Hack That Anybody Could Use A security researcher discovered a way to bypass security measures and hack power plant control equipment.
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Black Hat: Routers Using OSPF Open to Attacks A researcher at Black Hat has revealed a vulnerability in the most common corporate router protocol that puts networks using it at risk of attacks.
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Open Source Effort Will Deliver Low-Cost Wi-Fi for All It will be a bigger world for companies doing business online when this Google-backed project brings the Internet to those who haven't had it.
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Experts: Mobile Devices a Growing Target for Criminals Cybercriminals are looking at mobile devices as a target for personal and corporate information, a group of security experts says.
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As Targeted E-mail Attacks Proliferate, Companies Wince The strange e-mails arrived in executives' inboxes around the same time that the Australian oil company was negotiating a deal with a Chinese energy company.
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Judge OKs Google E-mail About Licensing Java A potentially damning e-mail from a Google engineer will be permitted at trial in Oracle's lawsuit against the search giant, a judge ordered on Thursday.
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Startup Aims to Get the Poor Online With Phone Numbers U.K. startup Movirtu plans to help 3 million or more people in poor countries use mobile services by giving them personal phone numbers, not phones.
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Twitter to Open Source Streaming Data Analyzer Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for analyzing live large-scale data...
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Intel Ponders Netbook Strategy With Tablet Rise After initial success, Intel's netbook strategy is at a crossroads as demand for tablets and low-cost laptops with larger screens rises, a company executive said...
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