Introducing Weave

Introducing Weave

We’re now launching a new project within Mozilla Labs to formally explore this integration. This project will be known as Weave and it will focus on finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for developers to build innovative online experiences.

Just like Mozilla enables massive innovation by making Firefox open on many levels, we will aim to do the same with Weave by developing an open extensible framework for services integration.


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Hackers launch major attack on US military labs

Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the US' most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

In what a spokesperson for the Oak Ridge facility described as a "sophisticated cyber attack," it appears that intruders accessed a database of visitors to the Tennessee lab between 1990 and 2004, which included their social security numbers and dates of birth. Three thousand researchers reportedly visit the lab each year, a who's who of the science establishment in the US.


Computerworld > Hackers launch major attack on US military labs

Stolen laptop had IDs on 268,000 Minnesota blood donors

A laptop stolen during a recent blood drive contained sensitive information on 268,000 Minnesota-region blood donors, Memorial Blood Centers said Wednesday.

The laptop was in a briefcase that was stolen just before 7 a.m. Nov. 28 as workers were setting up a blood drive, said Laura Kaplan, manager of marketing and communications with the blood center. "They were setting up for a blood drive and this was in a briefcase," she said. "The police have told us they believe it was a random crime."

Memorial Blood Centers is a nonprofit blood bank based in St. Paul, Minn. It operates 10 blood collection centers in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and collects about 125,000 units of blood each year.



Stolen laptop had IDs on 268,000 Minnesota blood donors

Fasthosts customers blindsided by emergency password reset

Fasthosts has announced that "a number" of its customers'* FTP spaces were raided as a result of the major hack that triggered a police investigation last month. It has applied a system-wide reset of thousands of passwords as a result.

The Gloucester-based webhosting firm yesterday performed the emergency reset of control panel, PCP, FTP and SQL passwords that were not changed by customers when the intrusion was revealed.

Fasthosts customers blindsided by emergency password reset | The Register

New Software Detects Web Interference

Increasingly worried over Internet providers' behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering.

The San Francisco-based digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation hopes the program, released Wednesday, will help uncover "data discrimination" _ efforts by Internet providers to disrupt some uses of their services _ in addition to the cases reported separately by EFF, The Associated Press and other sources.

"People have all sorts of problems, and they don't know whether to attribute that to some sort of misconfiguration, or deliberate behavior by the ISP," said Seth Schoen, a staff technologist with EFF.

The new software compares lists of data packets sent and received by two different computers and looks for discrepancies between what one sent and the other actually received. Previously, the process had to be done manually.

Schoen compared the software to a spelling checker.



New Software Detects Web Interference | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

United Airlines exploits tragedy in Brazil

I'm sure you've all heard the tragic story of Tony Harris by now...the son/son-in-law of a loving wife, a soon to be born child, a devoted step-father and his wife... Tony Harris goes to Brazil to play basketball and life takes a tragic turn... But...is United Air Lines hospitable? Sympathetic? NO! instead of giving the grieving step-father...

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16 year-old 'hacker' designs Internet policy

A TEENAGE hacker who managed to get around the Aussie government's $84 million internet filter scheme has been recruited by the opposition Labor party to design its cyber safety policy.

Tom Wood has now become the subject of a slanging match between the Labor and Liberal parties.

Liberal Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, denies that Wood "hacked" the software filters, saying he bypassed them by gaining access to the administrator account on his computer.


16 year-old 'hacker' designs Internet policy - The INQUIRER