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Olympic stadiums have a short shelf life. They’re oohed and aahed at during the games, but after the festivities, they’re forgotten and left to rust. China is trying to prevent that by re-inventing the beautiful Water Cube as a theme park.
Yes, Michael Phelp’s kingdom or that beautiful big blue bubble building or whatever you want to call it, is being re-imagined (with the help of $50 million in renovations) as a Water Park. Read more…
The Apple iOS, which runs on its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, has a flaw in how it reads PDF documents that makes it easier to hack. This flaw is exploited by JailbreakMe, a one-click site that makes it easy for anyone without any real tech skills to hack into their own iPhone.
The flaw lets JailbreakMe open up an Apple operating system, and enables the user to load non Apple-approved applications on to an Apple device. JailbreakMe brought the security risk to light, finally causing Apple to release security updates for iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch and iOS 3.2.2 for iPad this week.
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Palm has fixed the reported snooping vulnerability that allows a specially-crafted vCard to record and transmit conversations to a remote location.
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Palm stole the show at CES, revealing the Pre smartphone and WebOS operating system
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The flaw, which allows a perpetrator to control the recording of phone calls at will and sends them back to the source of the rogue vCard, was reported to Palm in May, according to Alex Fidgin, director of MWR InfoSecurity, the company that discovered the vulnerability.
It’s going to be called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 2.0, and the full-blown text of this upcoming standard that governs how businesses must guard sensitive cardholder information on their networks will be out at the beginning of September, according to the organization in charge of it.
Would PCI compliance help or hurt cloud computing security?
There won’t be major changes from the current DSS 1.2, according to Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council. But DSS v. 2.0 will seek to clarify what the PCI requirements mean in terms of enterprise security.
Diskcon USA is where the hard disk drive industry goes to discuss technology, areal density and innovation. There are lots of juicy sessions but nothing much from Seagate.
It’s being held at the Santa Clara Hotel on September 9th and 10th and session one is concerned with HDD component manufacturing and metrology. There are speakers from Xyratex, Veeco, Intevac and others. Session two is HDD assembly and test and, once again, Xyratex is heavily represented along with others including Hitachi GST.
Session three is a market analyst session with IDC, Coughlin and Associates, Gartner, and TrendFocus. Session four is the one which will attract massive interest, being entitled future technologies for HDDs.