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New SSL Attack Can Hit Many Sites

A Seattle computer security consultant says he\'s developed a new way to exploit a recently disclosed bug in the SSL protocol, used to secure communications on the Internet. The attack, while difficult to execute, could give attackers a very powerful phishing attack. Frank Heidt, CEO of Leviathan Security Group, says his \"generic\" proof-of-concept code could be used to attack a variety of Web sites. While the attack is extremely difficult to pull off -- the hacker would first have to first pull off a man-in-the-middle attack, running code that compromises the victim\'s network -- it could have devastating consequences.

Google's Go: A New Programming Language.

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python.

Windows 7 turns laptops into Wi-Fi hotspots

A Philadelphia developer has rooted out an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other Wi-Fi-enabled devices to share the connection without special software.Nomadio, which specializes in military network consulting and development, used the new \"Virtual Wi-Fi\" feature in Windows 7 to create Connectify, a free application that it released as a beta last Friday.Virtual Wi-Fi was crafted in Microsoft\'s research group as a way to \"virtualize\" one wireless card as several separate adapters. The project was discontinued in 2006, but the work made its way into Windows 7 as \"Native 802.11 Virtual Wireless Fidelity (Virtual Wi-Fi) object identifiers (OIDs)\".

IBM continues TOP500 lead

For a record-setting tenth consecutive time, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) system holds the number one position in the ranking of the world\'s most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the \"roadrunner project\" at Los Alamos National Lab -- the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop) -- remains the world speed champion. IBM also declared its intent to break the exaflop barrier, and announced that it had created a research \'collaboratory\' in Dublin, in partnership with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) of Ireland, which is focused on both achieving exascale computing and making it useful to business. An exaflop is a million trillion calculations per second, which is 1000 times faster than today\'s petaflop-class systems.

Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic...

Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed "return-oriented programming" to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. Click Read More for the full story.

AMD, Intel budget chipsets go head to head

For years, Intel and AMD have been battling for predominance in the processor/chipset market. AMD\'s latest plan seems to be to push back on economic grounds -- to offer high-value budget chipsets targeted at the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 systems, and high-performance chipsets that are slightly slower, but much cheaper, than equivalent Intel products. And Intel is firing back. Click Link for more details.