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	<title>Ruan Müller</title>
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		<title>IBM embraces Firefox, adopts it internally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM has made Firefox the company&#8217;s default Web browser. According to IBM&#8217;s vice president of Linux and open source software, company-wide Firefox adoption will accelerate IBM&#8217;s shift to cloud computing. Via: ars technica]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2010/07/05/ibm-embraces-firefox-adopts-it-internally/</link>
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		<title>Canada Post warns of fraudulent email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada Post is warning its customers of a fraudulent email disguised as a delivery notification identifying itself as having been sent from Canada Post. The email states that Canada Post is trying to deliver a package and provides further directions for the recipient to open an email attachment in order to proceed with the package [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2010/04/26/canada-post-warns-of-fraudulent-email/</link>
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		<title>Bank Employee Plants Malware on ATMs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Bank of America employee has been charged with installing malware on ATMs in North Carolina. The employee, who was a member of the bank&#8217;s IT staff, was able to withdraw cash without leaving transaction records from the ATMs over the course of 7 months during 2009. The charges were filed the same day that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2010/04/09/bank-employee-plants-malware-on-atms/</link>
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		<title>University of Cambridge discovers Chip and PIN verification &#8220;wedge&#8221; vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students at the University of Cambridge have discovered a new flaw that is compromised by using a MITM attack that deceives a terminal in to thinking that a card&#8217;s PIN is correct irregardless of what number is provided for the PIN. The attack uses an electronic device as a &#8220;man-in-the-middle&#8221; in order to prevent the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2010/02/15/university-of-cambridge-discovers-chip-and-pin-verification-wedge-vulnerability/</link>
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		<title>The EU and UK Have Less Open Wireless WiFi Broadband Hotspots Than USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From ISPreview: WeFi, a free wireless Wi-Fi broadband Hotspot locator website with a database of 47,000,000 access points around the world, has revealed that 40% of Hotspots in the USA are unlocked and do not require a security password. This compares with 25% in Europe. According to WeFi’s data, a traveler would find a higher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2010/01/08/the-eu-and-uk-have-less-open-wireless-wifi-broadband-hotspots-than-usa/</link>
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		<title>Scientists Demonstrate New Lightweight Rootkit Protection Method</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance. The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a guest OS to a dedicated page-aligned memory space that&#8217;s tightly locked down. The team installed HookSafe on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2009/11/14/scientists-demonstrate-new-lightweight-rootkit-protection-method/</link>
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		<title>OpenBSD 4.6 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The release of OpenBSD 4.6 was released on Sunday. Highlights of the new release include: Simplified installation process. Improved documentation and man pages. New versions of packages in ports (package management system). Over 5800 packages in total. Hardware driver updates: sensors, chipsets, video devices etc. New drivers, functionality and reliability updates. Network stack updates: stricter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2009/10/20/openbsd-4-6-released/</link>
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		<title>Employees within business and government organizations are the fastest-growing threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A joint study conducted by TELUS and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto surveyed more than 600 Canadian IT security professionals on Canadian IT security practices this year. The economic downturn has increased the risk organizations: “The threat environment worsens because when the economy goes into a downturn, job losses mount, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2009/09/30/employees-within-business-and-government-organizations-are-the-fastest-growing-threat/</link>
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		<title>SANS Report: 60% Of All Attacks Hit Web Applications, Most in the U.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most organizations are focusing their patching efforts and vulnerability scanning on the operating system &#8212; but 60 percent of the total number of attacks occur on Web applications, and many attacks are aimed at third-party applications such as Microsoft Office, and Adobe Flash and other tools, according to actual attack data gathered for the report. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2009/09/15/sans-report-60-of-all-attacks-hit-web-applications-most-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<title>Sun presents plans for a security accelerator chip to offload encryption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems&#8217; product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company&#8217;s chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they&#8217;ll see the light of day. At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday, Sun presented plans for a security accelerator chip that it said would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ruanmuller.com/2009/08/26/sun-presents-plans-for-a-security-accelerator-chip-to-offload-encryption/</link>
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