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Readers offer their best tips for running multiple instances of Dropbox at once, using Twitter to jot down notes and ideas for yourself, and using Google Docs to manage money between friends.
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Identifiers don’t identify
Interwebs founding father and Google evangelist Vint Cerf has insisted that when you search Google, the company doesn’t know who you are.…
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US-CERT is aware of reports of publicly available exploit code for a vulnerability within the SSL and TLS protocols. Reports indicate that exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack, allowing an attacker to inject plaintext into the beginning of the application protocol stream.
US-CERT encourages OpenSSL users and administrators to [...]

Why aren’t more people interested in becoming government cyber-security experts?

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From Patrick Stewart to Vincent Price, an odd array of actors and directors have tackled Charles Dickens’ holiday classic. Disney’s 3-D animated version hits theaters this weekend, prompting a head-trip down memory lane.

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Due to the recent publishing of information regarding a TLS/SSL protocol vulnerability (previous ISC diary entry can be found here http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7534) OpenSSL has released a new version (OpenSSL 0.9.8l). It should be noted that this update does not fix the vulnerability in the protocol. It appears that they have made the choice to simply remove [...]

A security flaw that has been identified in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol could open the door for man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against HTTPS communication. All implementations are said to be vulnerable because the flaw [...]

Tuesday patch blitzkrieg

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Gone through all of your privacy settings and now feel safer as a result? Read this and think again, because there are more things to take into consideration. by Zack Whittaker
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