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Hackers are actively exploiting an Internet Explorer plug-in that’s widely used by Facebook and MySpace members with a multi-attack kit, a security company warned Friday.

The exploit directed at Aurigma’s Image Uploader, an ActiveX control used by Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites to allow members to upload photos to their profiles, is just one of five in a new hacker toolkit being used by several Chinese attack sites, said Symantec Corp.

Attacks begin when users receive spam or an instant message with an embedded link, said Darren Kemp, the Symantec analyst who authored the advisory. The link takes users to…

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Prism is a cross-platform application that lets you integrate web applications with your desktop.

Prism now provides a cross-platform way to integrate the web platform with the desktop environment, and developers don’t have to lift a finger to desktop-enable their web applications, while users have the choice to use their favorite web apps in their browser, on their desktop of choice, or in both places.

Prism is the successor to WebRunner.  Mozilla just released the Linux version of Prism. Prism is a web browser that runs web applications to look and launch as if they were traditional applications.

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Ubuntu will place icons for other partitions on your desktop. Do you like a clean desktop, or just don’t always need access those other partitions? Changing a value in the GNOME Configuration Editor will stop partitions from being displayed on your desktop.

Press Alt-F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog. Type gconf-editor and click Run.

In the left pane of the window, browse to apps->nautilus->desktop. Uncheck the volumes_visible option and the partitions on your desktop will disappear.

Want to keep shortcuts to some partitions but not others? Follow the other directions, and then and can create your own launchers for the partitions you want.

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Firefox 3.0’s memory consumption is “dramatically improved,” claimed Mozilla’s chief engineer, because developers have aggressively attacked the open-source browser’s notorious memory “leaks.”

“We’ve been working on memory [leaks] for years,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering. “But it really started to come together in the last six months.”

Another milestone, however, might have been three months ago, when a member of the Mozilla board of directors said attention had to be paid to Firefox’s memory allocation if the browser was going to compete in the RAM-tight mobile market.

No matter the reason or the timing, Mozilla claims progress on the memory…

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The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.

The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one in 1,000 Web pages is malicious, according to Neils Provos, a senior staff software engineer with Google.

These Web-based attacks, called “drive-by downloads” by security experts, have become much more common in recent years as firewalls and better security practices by Microsoft have made it harder for…

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Pageonce created a massive management that gathers all your personal accounts into one organized page. From this page you can track your Finance accounts (American Express, Citibank, Fidelity etc.), Cellular bills (AT&T Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile etc.), Email accounts (Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Mail), Airlines (American Airlines, Delta, United Airlines, El-AL and more), Shopping online accounts (eBay, Amazon), Social services such as Facebook, Myspace, Linkdin, and Friendster. Except for that, Pageonce contains many more accounts so it’s most likely you’ll find what you need (especially if you live in the U.S). However, if you don’t find something, you can simply ask Pageonce…

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TrueCrypt is a well known and trusted open source application for encryption. It allows you to create and manage an encrypted volumes that can be used seamlessly and transparently.

TrueCrypt on Ubuntu isn’t new, I have written about it before. The new TrueCrypt 5 includes a GTK graphical user interface for Linux users, system partition encryption with pre-boot authentication (Windows only), and improved performance.

Installing TrueCrypt 5 in Ubuntu is easy:

1. Go to TrueCrypt’s download page and download the DEB package for Ubuntu. You will need to extract it from the .tar.gz download.
2. Install the package.
3. Launch TrueCrypt from the terminal by running…

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