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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IE8, Safari, iPhone, BlackBerry exploited in Pwn2Own contest]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers competing for $15,000 awards were able to successfully attackInternet Explorer 8 on Windows 7, Safari onMac OS X, theiPhone 4, and the BlackBerry Torch 9800 in an annual hacker contest at the CanSecWest security conference this week. For a variety of reasons, no efforts were made to attack Chrome, Firefox, Android or Windows Phone 7, the organizer of the Pwn2Own contest told CNET today. (Credit:CNET) One team of experts that had an exploit prepared to try against Windows 7 had to withdraw because of travel issues, according to Aaron Portnoy, manager of security research for HP DV Labs and lead for the ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) program that sponsors Pwn2Own.  Windows 7 also was going to be a target for George Hotz, who goes by the hacker name &quot;Geohot,&quot; but he withdrew to focus on his legal defense, Portnoy said. Hotz has been sued by Sony for allegedly violating copyright laws by distributing tools that jailbreak the PlayStation 3, which allows home brew and pirated applications to be played on the console.  Another contestant who was going to target Safari, Android, and iPhone withdrew at the request of his company, Portnoy said, declining to identify the contestant or his employer or to speculate why. And Duo Security researcher Jon Oberheide said he blew his chances at exploiting Android in the contest by incorrectly assuming that a bug he recently found and reported to Google directly was ineligible for the event.  The team that successfully exploited the BlackBerry also was planning to attack Chrome, but spent their time on exploits for other targets, he said. Portnoy said he believed they would have been able to exploit Chrome because he &quot;can attest to their skill.&quot; On Wednesday, Chaouki Bekrar of French security company Vupen was able to attack Safari by using a drive-by download. Ireland-based researcher Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security exploited several bugs to defeat the memory protections in IE8, as well as bypass DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) on a laptop running Windows 7. Fewer's IE exploit was the most impressive of the contest, according to Portnoy. &quot;He had three different vulnerabilities he used in tandem to exploit IE and break out of IE's protected mode, which is Microsoft's equivalent to sandbox architecture,&quot; he said. &quot;It was a unique technique he discovered.&quot; Meanwhile, Internet Explorer 9 does not contain the bug Fewer used in the contest, according to Microsoft. A fix for IE8 is being worked on, Jerry Bryant, a group manager with the Microsoft Security Response Center, told Computerworld.  Yesterday, three researchers--Willem Pinckaers, Vincenzo Iozzo, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann--used three bugs to exploit the BlackBerry browser and run their attack code on the device. Charlie Miller, who successfully defeated Safari on the Mac the past three years, used a new exploit he created with colleague Dion Blazakis to run code on the iPhone after surfing to a Web page hosting malicious code.  Miller, a researcher at Independent Security Evaluators, noted that the iOS 4.3 software Apple released on Wednesday includes ASLR, which would somewhat mitigate his exploit. &quot;The vulnerability I found is still in there, but it would be harder to write for it today than it would have been a few days ago,&quot; he said in a phone interview.  Through the Zero Day Initiative the Pwn2Own winners share the exploits with the companies whose software is affected so they can be patched. Researchers who hold exploits they weren't able to try in the contest can also report them through the disclosure program and get paid.  &quot;It was nice to see that some of the platforms that didn't go down last year went down this year, like the BlackBerry,&quot; Portnoy said. &quot;Media and public perception makes it seem that these devices are impenetrable if they weren't hacked at the contest,&quot; which is not the case. In addition to cash prizes, winners in the contest receive laptops or smartphones, depending on the platform they target. Google also had said it would pay $20,000 to anyone who successfully attacked Google code as part of the Chrome contest. CanSecWest was held in Vancouver, Canada, this week. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Republicans launch bill to ax EPA carbon rules]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>testaccgh</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=republicans-launch-bill-to-ax-epa-carbon-rules</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Republicans in the House of Representatives introduced a bill today that would permanently stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating emissions blamed for warming the planet. President Barack Obama would veto a bill that permanently blocks the agency from tackling climate change, administration officials have said. Obama has pledged to the world the United States will cut greenhouse gases to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, introduced the bill, called the Energy Tax Prevention Act. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a climate skeptic who is writing a book on global warming called &quot;The Hoax,&quot; also plans to introduce a version of the legislation today. &quot;The EPA is pursuing a dramatic shift in our nation's energy and environmental policy that would send shock waves through our economy,&quot; said Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee, who co-sponsored the bill. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA could regulate greenhouse gases under federal law. The agency then declared that the emissions endanger public health, which paved the way for its regulation of them. Collin Peterson, a Democrat from Minnesota, and Dan Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, also signed onto the House bill. Republicans hope to have at least one Democrat from the Senate on board today. The bill, a draft copy of which Upton and Inhofe released earlier this month, will likely first go to a vote in the Republican-controlled House. If it passes, Republicans hope it will gain momentum in the Senate and pick up Democrats from industrial states who face tough elections next year. Some Democrats may find it hard to vote against a bill that aims to stop regulations some businesses say will shut factories and hurt jobs. Sen. Joe Manchin from coal-rich West Virginia, who ran a campaign ad last year in which he shot a copy of a climate bill with a rifle, is one Democrat who Republicans hope will support the bill.Power companies: EPA gives investment certaintyAnalysts have said the legislation could face a tough battle because a permanent blockage of EPA regulations is too harsh in scope to get the 60 votes needed to pass in the Senate. Analysts have said there is a better chance for passage of a bill pushed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, which would delay the EPA from taking action for two years. Many big power companies, such as New Jersey-based NRG Energy, have said they want the EPA to continue regulating as it would give them more certainty in investing in future power plants. The EPA in January began requiring big industries to hold permits for emitting greenhouse gases, the first step in regulating the pollution. The agency plans to propose performance standards on power plants in July and oil refiners in December that would limit their emissions. Environmentalists decried the introduction of the legislation. &quot;These two bills are yet more Dirty Air Acts intended to give the nation's biggest polluters a way out of limits to their carbon dioxide pollution that's likely to exacerbate asthma and lung diseases by worsening smog, and increase deadly heat waves and extreme weather conditions,&quot; said Earthjustice legislative representative Sarah Saylor. Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Mail tied to Windows Phone 7 data slurp]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>testaccgh</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yahoo-mail-tied-to-windows-phone-7-data-slurp</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some deep digging by self-proclaimed Microsoft software deconstructor Rafael Rivera claims to have stumbled upon the reason for someWindows Phone 7 devices using up large amounts of &quot;phantom&quot; data, unbeknownst to their owners. The culprit Yahoo Mail. Rivera examined some of the IMAP packets coming into the device and discovered that Yahoo's IMAP server was not responding to the phone's requests to fetch new messages with the correct response. Instead of sending commands that were just a few lines in length, the servers would send back code chunks that Rivera says are about 25 times larger than they need to be. &quot;This can also be read as: Your phone is downloading 25 times as much data as it normally would, had you sided with another e-mail provider,&quot; Rivera said.Microsoft confirmed Rivera's findings this evening, saying that there was an &quot;inefficiency&quot; between the Windows Phone Mail client and Yahoo's e-mail service. The company is instructing affected users to slow mail fetches until it can offer up a software fix.Problems with Windows Phone 7 devices slurping up excessive amounts of data were first reported shortly after the launch of the platform, but not all phones experienced the issue. Responding to reports of the problem earlier this month, Microsoft pledged to launch an investigation into the issue, which it pinned on an unnamed third party a week later. In any case, Microsoft downplayed the scale of the issue, saying that &quot;a small (low single-digit) percentage&quot; of Windows Phone 7 users had reported the issue to the company.(via Windows Phone Secrets)Update at 8:46 p.m. PT: Microsoft has confirmed to CNET that the problem exists, and has provided the following instructions to Windows Phone 7 users until a fix arrives.Long story short, Microsoft is encouraging users to set the phone to check for e-mail from their Yahoo accounts less often. Microsoft also says it's working on a fix to another e-mail related bug that has some messages sitting in the outbox instead of being sent:We have determined that an inefficiency exists in the synchronization of email between the Windows Phone Mail client and Yahoo! Mail.This inefficiency can result in larger than expected data usage for a very small percentage of users.&amp;bull' Microsoft and Yahoo! have worked together to identify a fix, which will be rolled out in the coming weeks.&amp;bull' In the meantime, customers can mitigate this issue by following these steps:1. On the Start screen of Windows Phone 7, click on the arrow at the top right2. Choose &quot;Settings&quot; from the app list3. Choose &quot;email &amp; accounts&quot;4. Choose &quot;Yahoo! Mail&quot;5. Click on the setting under &quot;Download new content&quot;6. Select a less frequent setting. If you are using the default setting (every 2 hours), change this setting to 'manually'7. Click on the setting under &quot;Download email from&quot;8. Select a shorter time range. If you are using the default setting (the last 2 weeks), change this setting to 'the last 7 days'Microsoft has also identified an issue with our Exchange ActiveSync [EAS] email synchronization protocol that may affect a very small percentage of users.&amp;bull' This issue can be caused by email that exceeds the mail server email size setting or is sent to an invalid email address&amp;bull' This issue can potentially affect email services that utilize the EAS protocol - Outlook and Gmail for example&amp;bull' The immediate mitigation is for users to delete mail that appears &quot;stuck&quot; in the outbox&amp;bull' This is currently scheduled to be fixed in a near-term end user update from Microsoft<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: BrightSource raises $1.75 million, Germany to keep cutting solar subsidies]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat today:BrightSource Energy raises $1.75 million &amp;8212' According to an SEC filing, the solar thermal power company, which is arumored IPO candidate this year, has raised a small round of cash. The money appears to have been raised from BrightSource&amp;'s executive officers and directors.Its technology uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a tower, using the heat to generate steam to turn electrical turbines. BrightSource recently broke ground on its 392-megawatt Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert.Germany will keep reducing solar subsidies &amp;8211' The country, whose generous subsidies allowed it to makeup about half of last year&amp;'s solar PV demand, has created some trepidation in the market with its plans tocut back. Reuters reports Germany will, as scheduled, reduce its solar power feed-in tariffs by up to 12percentage points by July 1.KLD Energy closes on $2 million of a planned $10 million round &amp;8211' The company is focusing on the Chinese market andelectric scooters' KLD makes an electric drive system for two and three-wheeled vehicles, Earth2Tech reports.The company&amp;'s CTO was the former science director for Tesla.Intematix launches new LED tech, shoots for IPO &amp;8211' The company announced today a new line of blue-to-white-light converting phosphor composites that are separated from the blue LED energy source, marking a break fromconventional LED manufacturing. Intematix says its new ChromaLit line (pictured) can simplify manufacturing for LEDsand stabilize LED performance over a lifetime. The company is also considering a public offering in the next12 months, Greentech Media reports.Power Assure and Packet Power team up for greener servers &amp;8211' The two companies have developed a wirelesspower monitoring system to allow data center managers to monitor and adjust power use. It&amp;'s acombination of Packet Power&amp;'s wireless monitoring devices with Power Assure&amp;'s software, and marks the latestoffering in the hot green data center market that incorporates wireless sensors.Toyota is developing an induction motor without using rare earth minerals &amp;8212' The moveshows the automaker is developing a contingency plan should the current shortage of rare earth mineralscontinue. It also suggests that Toyota is bearish on the prospect of China easing its export restrictions inthe future.China overtakes U.S. as largest wind energy producer &amp;8212' That&amp;'s according to new figures from China, NewEnergy World Network writes. But shares of Chinese wind companies haven&amp;'t seen much of a boost by the news. Chinesewind company Sinovel aims to beat number-one Vestas (of Denmark) by 2015.Next Story: Details (and pictures) emerge on HP/Palma4a4s webOS tablets Previous Story: FCC, Justice Department makes Comcast-NBC Universal merger a realityPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: China, data centers, electric cars, electric scooters, electric vehicles, Germany, green data centers, hybrids, Ivanpah, LEDs, phosphors, Prius, rare earths, Solar, solar thermal, windCompanies: BrigthSource Energy, Intematix, KLD Energy, Packet Power, Power Assure, Sinovel, Toyota, Vestas          Tags: China, data centers, electric cars, electric scooters, electric vehicles, Germany, green data centers, hybrids, Ivanpah, LEDs, phosphors, Prius, rare earths, Solar, solar thermal, windCompanies: BrigthSource Energy, Intematix, KLD Energy, Packet Power, Power Assure, Sinovel, Toyota, VestasIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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