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Yikes… More reports of Mozilla Firefox problematic extensions are circulating via the interwebs. This time, malware laden browser extensions monikered  Sothink Web Video Downloader and Master Filer have been discovered to contain Trojans targeting Microsoft Corporation’s [NasdaqGS: MSFT] Windows users. Apparently, the trojaned extensions do not suffer indignities upon [...]

News of the banding together of at least seven southern US based restaurants litigating over apparent negligence in credit card processing security, and targeting Radiant Systems, a Georgia POS [Point of Sale] concern. More information, including appropriate linkage, and a short snippet of Kim Zetter’s original post at Wireds’ ThreatLevel appears after the jump.

The Apache Foundation, authors of the most popular web server product in existence – Apache HTTP Server – has released the final code update to the OpenSource groups highly respected web daemon. More information, with links,  appears after the page break.

Excerpted and edited from an original post I published last year on 2008/05/05:
Lest We Forget: On this date, in 1961, the late, great, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Retired), became our First Astronaut, after serving our country in the Pacific during World War II. Talk about a career…. Read his Official [...]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced a Call for Participation for the 10th Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC). The conference is known as the  largest gathering of women focused on, and working in computational sciences on the planet. More information, inclusive of links, appears after the jump.

Infosecurity.US continues our popular Genius Series with a focus on Luis von Ahn, Ph.D., MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award winner, and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. A short bio from the MacArthur Foundation appears after the page jump, along with a video.

Mozilla Foundation announces the latest release of the organizations’ Open Source web browser – Firefox, now at version 3.5.7. Noted as a point release, the code fixes focus on a couple of issues, most notably a stability problem that is now remedied. More information, including download linkage to the Release Notes, appears after the jump.