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XML flaw threatens apps built with Sun, Apache, Python libraries
Vulnerabilities discovered in XML libraries from Sun, Apache Software Foundation and Python Software Foundation could result in successful denial-of-service attacks on applications built with them, according to Codenomicon.
EDUCASE to implement DNSSEC and sign .edu TLD
EDUCASE and Verisign to deploy DNSSEC for .edu TLD by March 2010.
4004 chipset details made public
Complete Artwork, Schematics, and Simulator for Intel MCS-4 (4004 family) microprocessor chip-set available for the first time
SSL renegotiation attack implemented
A Turkish grad student has devised a serious, real-world attack on Twitter that targeted a recently discovered vulnerability in the secure sockets layer protocol.
Google SPDY alternative protocol
Google releases alternative to HTTP protocol to speed up web access.
StarCraft AI Competition
The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program.
Google releases an open source language "Go"
"""Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation."""
EWU systems down for upgrade
Nov 6-9th 2009. Admissions, advising, records and registration, financial aid, student employment, student financial services, and payroll systems down.
Man-In-the-Middle Vulnerability For SSL and TLS
"The SSL 3.0+ and TLS 1.0+ protocols are vulnerable to a set of related attacks which allow a man-in-the-middle (MITM) operating at or below the TCP layer"
Widespread Linux bug may give root access
""" "The null pointer dereference flaw was only fixed in the upcoming 2.6.32 release candidate of the Linux kernel, making virtually all production versions in use at the moment vulnerable. While attacks can be prevented by implementing a common feature known as mmap_min_addr..." """
Graduate Studies - Fall Quarter 2009 - Newsletter
This is just a quick newsletter from the Graduate Studies Office letting you know about some of the things happening during the rest of this academic year.

