Apple Security Advisory 2013-09-06-1 – AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.6.4 is now available and addresses a security issue. An associated client may be able to cause an unexpected base station system termination. An issue existed in the parsing of small frames with incorrect lengths. This issue was addressed by adding size checking to the…

WordPress Event Easy Calendar plugin version 1.0.0 suffers from cross site request forgery, improper input validation, and cross site scripting vulnerabilities…….

The likely introduction of the iPhone 5S and/or 5C by NTT DoCoMo is a hot topic in Japan…….

New submitter anwyn writes “In a recent article posted on the cryptography mailing list, long time civil libertarian and free software entrepreneur, John Gilmore has analyzed possible NSA obstruction of cryptography in IPSEC. He suggest that packet processing in the Linux kernel had been obstructed by one kernel developer. Gilmore suggests that the NSA has…

A Craigslist shopper supposedly buys a smartphone by way of an ad on the site — and ends up with the yet-to-be-released GDR3 upgrade to Windows Phone 8. Screenshots reveal new features…….

theodp writes “Back in the day, leprosy patients were stigmatized and shunned, quarantined from society in Leper Colonies. Those days may be long gone, but are our mapping, GPS, and social media technologies in effect helping to create modern-day ‘Leper Colonies’? The recently-shuttered GhettoTracker.com (born again as Good Part of Town) generated cries of racism…

MojoKid writes “Tesla CEO Elon Musk has more on his mind that just cars and 4,000 MPH Hyperloop transportation systems. He also tweeted his intention of developing a hand-manipulated holographic design engine and designing a rocket part with only hand gestures, finally printing the part in titanium.” And now Musk has posted the video he…

An Ohio man posts a video in which he admits to driving down a highway the wrong way and killing a 61-year-old man…….

First time accepted submitter SGT CAPSLOCK writes “It certainly seems like more and more Internet Service Providers are taking up arms to combat their customers when it comes to data usage policies. The latest member of the alliance is Mediacom here in my own part of Missouri, who has taken suit in applying a proverbial…

An anonymous reader writes “Using a Lego Mindstorms set, a Mac, and optical character recognition, Austrian professor Peter Purgathofer created a makeshift ebook copier. From the article: ‘It’s sort of a combination of high tech meets low. The scanning is done by way of the Mac’s iSight camera. The Mindstorms set does two things: Hits…