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Intego:
INTEGO SECURITY ALERT - October 31, 2007 — OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to — Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers — Description: A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs.
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Shaun Nichols / vnunet:
Phishing trojan targets OS X — Security vendor Intego claims to have found a new trojan attack that targets Apple's OS X operating system. — The OSX.RSPlug.A trojan allegedly disguises itself as a video codec that would provided access to a pornographic video.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
FTC asked to enact new Internet regulations — Two public-interest groups are asking the U.S. government to target what they claim are "invasive" online marketing schemes—especially those involving social-networking Web sites or targeting children and teenagers.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google launches privacy channel on YouTube — Google launched a privacy channel on YouTube Wednesday with videos explaining its privacy policies. The move comes on the eve of a two-day Federal Trade Commission-hosted town hall event on behavioral ad targeting to be held in Washington, D.C.
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Online Video Watch, Google Blogoscoped, Google Public Policy Blog, Mashable! and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Federal Trade Commission:Federal Trade Commission Protecting America's Consumers
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PC World, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Threat Level
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Open Social: screencast and screenshots — In yesterday's post, I described the new Open Social API, sponsored by Google and supported by a wide range of Internet companies including my company Ning. — In this post, I present a screencast and a series of screenshots that show Open Social in action.
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
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Inside Facebook, eWEEK.com, TechCrunch, CNET News.com, The Social Customer Manifesto, Between the Lines, Epicenter, David Card, Valleywag, Brier Dudley's blog, Leveraging Ideas, Wikinomics, Techlog, Charles Hudson's Weblog, Groundswell, VentureBeat, Tech~Surf~Blog, All Facebook, Vinny Lingham's Blog, Insider Chatter, Wall Street Journal, broadstuff, Howard Lindzon, Googlified, Rough Type, Scobleizer, Techdirt, MARS Magazine, Ars Technica, louisgray.com, Reuters, Digital Daily, TECH.BLORGE.com, CenterNetworks, Futuristic Play, Guardian Unlimited, Microsoft Watch, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and Publishing 2.0
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
Nearly 150,000 installs of AppSnapp (iPhone 3rd party app/jailbreak tool) in 3 days — The demand for unofficial third-party applications on iPhones is, by at least one account, staggering. AppSnapp, a Web-based script that jailbreaks (allows read-write access to the filesystem) …
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Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:
More than 100,000 iPhone owners break out of jail — The release of an easy-to-download method of opening up the iPhone to third-party applications prompted almost 150,000 downloads of the software in three days. — Our friends over at iPhone Atlas spoke with Nicholas "Drudge" Penree …
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Gizmodo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Google Phone: The Story So Far, Some Launch Details & What's Next — The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on Google's mobile phone efforts and how it is beginning to draw some interest from carriers, especially in the United States. Sprint (S) and Verizon (VZ) are in talks with Google …
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
$200 Everex Green PC Now Available — Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores. — "It's $200, with no gimmicks or subsidies," Everex spokesman David Liu said.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, Look Who's Now The 5th Biggest Company in the US — That's right: Google (GOOG). And trading at a not-preposterous 55-times trailing 12-month earnings, too. — Rank Company Market Cap (Bil) Ticker — 1 Exxon Mobil $505 XOM
Steve / CO-ED Magazine:
Facebook Music is Coming! — As reported earlier this year, Facebook has been rumored to announce an online music service to compete with iTunes and MySpace in the near future. — This just in: the "Facebook Music" platform will serve as the social networking giants first step into the music space.
Adam C. Engst / TidBITS:
Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard — In a notable about-face, Apple has changed its stance with regard to allowing Mac OS X Server to be run inside a virtual machine (VM), much as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion make it possible to run Windows and other PC-based operating systems on a Mac.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Hakia Adds Social Networking - But Does Search Need Social Networking Features? — Semantic search engine Hakia has just released a new social networking feature, called Meet Others (MO). The basic idea is to "meet others" who asked the same query. This is something I've never seen …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Google's worst nightmare [Brad Fitzpatrick] — Google's worst nightmare — Our spy cameras have penetrated the inner sanctum of the Googleplex! Sneaking up on Brad Fitzpatrick from behind, we caught a picture of his "epic" Halloween costume. "He is dressed as one of Google's largest fears!" an informant whispers.
InfoWorld:
Experts skeptical of alleged Nov. 11 cyber jihad — Security experts are saying that a reported al-Qaeda cyber jihad attack planned against Western institutions should be treated with skepticism. — The attack was reported by DEBKAfile, an online military intelligence magazine.
