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The software maker issued a patch on Thursday to fight malicious software that was used in the attack on Google Inc and dozens of other companies which operate in China. Research firm Core Security Technologies said on Friday that it discovered another set of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that hackers can link together and exploit, to remotely access all of the data on a personal computer.
"There are three or four ways to conduct this type of attack," said Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina, a security consultant with Boston-based Core, who will demonstrate the vulnerability at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, which begins February 2.
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The following guide has been provided in order to help governments and organizations around the world understand the ins and outs of how we’ve run Apps for Democracy contests over the past year+ and is structured in such a way that you’ll be able to start your own when the time comes.
If you need help, feel free to ask a question in the Apps for Democracy Google Group, or leave a comment on this post.
Good luck with your open data, open government, and civic hacking projects and keep me posted if you launch something so we can help spread the word about it!
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Domain names are free agents. Nothing in the bureaucracy of the Internet links HopeForHaitiNow.org with HopeForHaitiNow.com. They may be registered by different people at different times for different purposes.
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UK citizens now have access to a robust government Web site, thanks to none other than Web legend Tim Berners-Lee and his collaborator, Nigel Shadbolt. The U.S. launched a Web site providing citizens with access to some types of data earlier this year, but it's a paltry offering when stacked up against the new UK site, by all accounts.
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