According to Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Fortinet, the exploit — dubbed “JS/CreateTextRange.B” to differentiate it from the original — takes much less time to execute.

“In this version, the time to wait before the execution of the payload (aka hacker’s code and potentially damaging payload) is minimized,” said Fortinet’s alert.

The change could be significant, since the one exploit now in circulation takes 5 to 10 seconds to execute, said Dan Hubbard, senior director of security and research at Websense.

Source: informationweek

Google Inc. co-founders and its chief executive will continue to receive $1 each in annual salary and forego bonuses in 2006, while holding shares potentially worth billions of dollars in the Web search leader, according to regulatory filings on Friday.

CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set the $1 annual salary for 2005 and decided to continue the policy in 2006, Google said in its shareholder proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Schmidt and Page earned bonuses of $1,630 in 2005, while Brin earned $1,723.

Source: Reuters

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today the pricing of its public offering of 5,300,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $389.75 per share. The estimated net proceeds of the offering will be approximately $2.065 billion.

apan has begun to watch digital television broadcasts on mobile telephones, in a highly anticipated service that could lead to a new genre of TV programs.

Handsets have been on the market in Japan for several weeks that are equipped with the service, which can also broadcast programs onto laptop computers, high-end video-game machines and other terminals.

The service will be free for now and programming will be the same as on home televisions as mobile operators examine whether One Seg will prove to be popular.

“In the short-term, digital terrestrial broadcasting on mobiles with the same programming as normal televisions will be of little interest for us,” Masao Nakamura, CEO of Japan’s top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, said recently.

“But we are getting ready by preparing new specific content for the service that could come into use later when new channels are available,” he said.

Source: AP

GEORGE Clooney has a plan to destroy the Gawker stalker Web site. While some power publicists propose new laws to protect their pampered clients, Clooney says there’s an easier way to deal with instantly posted sightings of celebrities, which provide their whereabouts to potential stalkers - flood Gawker with lies. “There is a simple way to render these guys useless,” Clooney advised in an e-mail his publicist sent out to various other show-business publicists. “Flood their Web site with bogus sightings

Source: nypost

Today Google announced the launch of Google Romance, a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of their evening.

Dutch citizens will get a personalized Internet page giving them access to their records at public institutions and reminding them when to renew important documents, the government said on Friday.

The aim is to let citizens and companies, which will also get pages, access their data at any time, and eventually reduce administrative costs.

A trial Personal Internet Page (PIP) project will start later this year. Between 10 and 15 government organizations will participate, giving citizens on-line access to their tax information, grants, licences and social security data.

Source: Reuters