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The H Roundup for the week ending 4 February

In the last seven days: a critical hole in PHP was closed, Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 arrived and there was controversy around a Busybox alternative. Also Debian 7.0 will use the 3.2 kernel, VLC 2.0 gets ready to bloom and Wayland 1.0 approaches

Xbox Live Bans User For Getting Hacked

After his Xbox Live account was stolen, Josh had to file a Better Business Bureau complaint in order to make MIcrosoft pay attention to him and restore his account access. After three months, he was delighted to log back in to his account, but surprised to learn that he had been banned for a "code of conduct violation." What did his account do to get banned? It was trying to steal other accounts. Imagine that.

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Consumerist

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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.3

The company has released Mac OS X 10.7.3 and, for users who have yet to upgrade from 10.6.8 to Lion, Security Update 2012-001. The updates address more than 50 security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to, for example, remotely execute arbitrary code

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.3

Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’

Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countries only where it was ordered removed, instead of on [...]

New Mobile-Phone Privacy Law Proposed

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) unveiled draft legislation Monday requiring mobile-phone carriers to reveal if they are employing tracking software such as Carrier IQ. “Consumers have the right to know and to say ‘no’ to the presence of software on their mobile devices that can collect and transmit their personal and sensitive information,” Markey said in The [...]

When Antivirus Firms Can’t Tell They’ve Been Hacked, We’re All Doomed

Anti-virus giant Symantec says it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced a breach at that time.

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When Antivirus Firms Can’t Tell They’ve Been Hacked, We’re All Doomed

Anti-virus giant Symantec says it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced a breach at that time.

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SEC Goes After Online Trading Firms That Unwittingly Helped Latvian Hacker

In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online trading companies and eight executives who they say helped a Latvian hacker make more than $850,000 from fraudulent trades.

AirAsia blames ‘IT issues’ in price case

Asia's biggest budget carrier AirAsia said yesterday it has taken "corrective action" to resolve complaints in a lawsuit brought by Australian regulators over its online fare information.

The Malaysia-based airline, which flies international services out of Australia from the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Perth, with Sydney to be added from April, was named in documents lodged at the Federal Court in Melbourne.

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smh.com.au

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Technology

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