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Iran, disintermediation and cyberwar

Software not smart enough to sort human relationships; ICANN chief refutes US control
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Iran, disintermediation and cyberwar

With some justification, skeptics have questioned whether cyberwar is a realistic scenario for concern or merely a scary story to earn funding for security companies and writers. Unfortunately, there are many cases in which journalists and others have leaped to the conclusion that security breaches are examples of cyberwar; recent examples include the Estonian "cyberwar" of 2007 and the attacks on the Church of Scientology in early 2009.  Read full story

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Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive chairman of World-Check, a company that maintains a database of individuals that banks and other companies might want to think twice about doing business with.

ICANN chief refutes US control
The new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) chief has poured cold water on claims the organisation is resisting a break from alleged US oversight.

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Cisco on Friday reissued a security advisory originally released to the public in December, 2005. The advisory concerns a vulnerability that exists in the IOS HTTP server in which HTML code from output such as a show buffers command, will be passed to the browser requesting the page. This HTML code could be interpreted by the client browser to potentially execute malicious commands. There...

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