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	<title>Security And Privacy</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Laptop Updated</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/new-laptop-updated</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[ati radeon hd mobile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[broadcom wireless]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[broadcom-wl]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dell Studio 15 laptop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote the other day,  I purchased a new Dell Studio 17 laptop and have been working to get OpenSuSe 11.2 working on it.  I finally managed to get Wireless working by using the broadcom-wl package from the packman repositories.  Once I installed them, the wireless device was recognized and I could see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Laptop</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/new-laptop</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/new-laptop#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Been sometime since I have posted here. Life can take many different twists and turns; sometimes quite unexpected.
I recently purchased a new Dell Studio 17 laptop.  I had done some research on it before I purchased it and it seemed that I wouldn&#8217;t have too much problem getting everything to work under Linux.  My first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Privacy</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/the-problem-with-privacy</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/the-problem-with-privacy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google maps! Who today lives without them when they are going to be traveling to a destination that they&#8217;ve never driven before? I use google maps all the time and have found it to be a very accurate way to plan my trip by shortest distance or shortest time, and Google will also provide me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackberry Users Facing Critical Vulnerability</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/blackberry-users-facing-critical-vulnerability</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/blackberry-users-facing-critical-vulnerability#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business/Corporate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PDF files have become ubiquitous as a file format for exchanging information and documents.  They can be viewed and read on just about any platform and are commonly sent to others as attachments to emails.
However, RIM has issued an alert advising their Blackberry users that opening a PDF file could corrupt their devices and allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Million Customers Compromised</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/5-million-customers-compromised</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/5-million-customers-compromised#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In early December, CheckFree Corp. experienced a situation where their domain registration account was compromised and subsequently, DNS was hijacked.  CheckFree offers a bill payment service through several banks, including Bank of America, many who use the service were diverted to a server located in the Ukraine and unwittingly gave up their usernames and passwords [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misleading Security Headline</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/misleading-security-headline</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/misleading-security-headline#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Signatures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Encryption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Just Plain Silly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate misleading headlines.  Every so often, one appears relating to some security issue or vulnerability.  Today, I received an email from PC Mag that held my interest for a number of reasons including the fact that I make use of the SSL protocol and manage a number of SSL certificates for clients.  The headline?
&#8220;SSL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash For Linux Vulnerability</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/flash-for-linux-vulnerability</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/flash-for-linux-vulnerability#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Adobe Flash vulnerability has been discovered in Versions 10.0.12.36, 9.0.151.0 and earlier, for Linux. According to the Adobe website, &#8220;&#8230; that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this potential vulnerability to take control of the affected system. A specially formed SWF must be loaded in Flash Player for Linux by the user for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modsecurity On Centos 4.7 64 Bit Architecture</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/modsecurity-on-centos-47-64-bit-architecture</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/modsecurity-on-centos-47-64-bit-architecture#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Firewalls]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[64 bit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[centos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[httpd]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mod security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some might have a problem installing Mod Security on Centos 4.7 and 64 bit architectures, if following the instructions on the Modsecurity website.
My webserver has been upgraded to  httpd-2.0.52-41 using the CentosPlus repository.  I don&#8217;t know if others using versions previous to this will have the same problem or not - but it has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Is Guaranteed</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/nothing-is-guaranteed</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/nothing-is-guaranteed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, one of the top web hosting firms, ThePlanet.com had an explosion and fire in a data centre, located in Texas.  This affected thousands and thousands of websites as although apparently none of the servers in the facility were damaged, backup power to the facility was not allowed by the fire fighting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Facebook Breaking Privacy Laws?</title>
		<link>http://secpriv.com/is-facebook-breaking-privacy-laws</link>
		<comments>http://secpriv.com/is-facebook-breaking-privacy-laws#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just logged off the popular and well known &#8220;Social Networking&#8221; site, Facebook after playing some Scrabulous moves with some of my friends.  There is no doubt that Facebook can be a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances and some of the third party applications such as Scrabulous are popular [...]]]></description>
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