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| Tech News 8-29-04 Mac Users With Mozilla Browsers Warned Secunia has issued the following bulletin for Macs using OS X: “A vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks. The vulnerability has been confirmed in Mozilla 1.7.2 and Firefox 0.9.3 on Mac OS X 10.3.5. Other versions may also be affected.” The solution according to Secunia is to disable Java support. Happy Birthday to the Internet CNET features an article on the Internet at 35 that details the past, present, and future of this important communication tool. Microsoft’s Top Ten Microsoft provides you with ten reasons to update to Service Pack 2 at the Microsoft Support site. Multiple Computer Update for SP2 If you need to update more than two computers with Service Pack 2, you can visit Microsoft’s Support site to ease your burden. New Releases for Open Source DistroWatch announced the release of an update for Damn Small Linux 0.8.0; check out the web site for more information on this update. Open Source Alerts Secunia posted the following bulletins for open source users: Gentoo Linux 1.x Open BSD 3.x What is Spoofing? Secunia issued a warning for Mac users about spoofing, and PC owners have been hearing about it for years; so what is spoofing? According to IT Security.com it is, “Faking the origin; for example, forging mail headers to make it appear that messages originated elsewhere. One spoof incident reported by CERT involved messages sent to users, supposedly from local system administrators, requesting them to change their password to the new value provided in the message. These messages were not from the administrators, but from intruders trying to steal accounts. Web spoofing. Academics at Princeton University published a paper describing how easy it is for Web spoofers to produce a 'fake' site that can sit between the user and his or her intended destination. The spoofers could receive messages and then pass them on to the true destination, and could receive replies and pass them back to the user. In this way it would be possible to 'filter' valuable information, possibly without the parties concerned ever knowing that it had occurred.” Please visit our other site: www.californiafairsandfestivals.com 
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