Da Dogs Musings

September 16, 2005

Paris Hilton (T-Mobile) Hacked – Kevin Mitnick returns to online access

Filed under: Computing — Zoomdog @ 1:58 pm

A Massachusetts juvenile has pleaded guilty to a January 2005 attack that ultimately exposed the cell phone address book of U.S. socialite Paris Hilton to the Internet, according to T-Mobile USA, the mobile phone provider whose servers were compromised in the attack. – quoted from here

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From the Washington Post 2 further links on this – link1 link2

a much more detailed news report from CNET News regarding this 17 year old

This all occurs at the same time as the return of Kevin Mitnick (His company) returns to online usage as listed in Wikipedia

Mozilla / Firefox Security warning

Filed under: Computing — Zoomdog @ 1:48 pm

Sept 9 news ..

While it was first discovered on Sept 6 .. it was officially announced on Sept 8 with the patch available Sept 9 .. nice work !! The Mozilla Foundation is aware of a potentially critical security vulnerability in Mozilla and Firefox browsers’ support for IDN, as reported publicly on September 8.- as listed on mozilla security page
Mozilla have this listed as critical.
instructions on update available here  according to zdnet new firefox and mozilla releases due soon  Hackers work to exploit latest Firefox flaw-zdnet  

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