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11:15 AM ET, March 29, 2008

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Dancho Danchev / Dancho Danchev's Blog:
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing  —  Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites.  Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk …
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InfoWorld:
Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack  —  A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit more than a million Web pages, including many well-known sites.  —  “The number and importance of the sites has increased,” …
Discussion: WebProNews and WebGuild
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer  —  Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.  —  The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating  —  Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950 …
Discussion: The Real McCrea and WebMetricsGuru
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Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Hack Facebook In 51 Seconds  —  So Byron Ng isn't a real Facebook hacker.  But apparently it isn't hard to become one, if you've got any technical skills at all.  Hacking Facebook is a cottage industry, with hundreds or thousands of unpaid workers beavering away.
Discussion: All Facebook and CNET News.com
Josh / Redeye VC:
I Don't Know...  I don't know.  —  Why is it so hard for people (including both entrepreneurs and VCs) to say these three words?  —  This past week I had two distinctly different meetings with entrepreneurs.  They both were successful serial entrepreneurs.  Both were exceptionally smart.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is VON Creator PulverMedia Dot Gone?  —  Pulver Media, the New York-based company well known for VON, the trade shows for the VoIP industry and a magazine with the same name might be shutting down, joining the dot.gone club, according to sources.  —  The rumors of the shutdown of Pulver Media …
Nathan McFeters / Zero Day:
Black Hat Europe, Day 2: The day that wasn't and Black Hat Europe, Day 3: Begin the presentations  —  So, for those of you looking forward to a Black Hat Day 2 update with some more from the training sessions... I'm afraid it didn't happen.  I had intended to hook up with Adam Laurie for a discussion of his …
Rain Anderson / That VideoGame Blog:
Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years … The man who set up and ran the European Xbox business for Microsoft, Sandy Duncan, believes that consoles as we know them today will “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years.  —  “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology.
Reggie / Internet Tablet Talk:
The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition  —  Ok, there's no official announcement yet but Nokia has again let the cat out of the bag a bit too early — four days too early to be exact as we can probably guess that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - WiMAX Edition will be announced at CTIA at Las Vegas on April 1.
Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
PWN to OWN: Final Day (and another winner!)  —  The third and final day of the PWN to OWN contest at the CanSecWest security conference begins today, March 28th at 12:30pm local time (PST) in Vancouver.  Yesterday, on day two of the contest, the MacBook Air was successfully compromised …
Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Countdown to iPhone 2.0  —  Citing ambitious production plans, observers eye a big June debut of Apple's next generation iPhone.  —  (Fortune) — Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans are any guide.
Discussion: iPhone Savior and Mark Evans
John Lancaster / Guardian:
Dork Talk  —  Part of the problem with smartphones is the term “smartphone”.  There is no getting around the fact that the things sound demoralisingly nerdy.  To the lay consumer, what “smart” means is “horribly complicated, unnecessarily over-specified, dominated by features no sane person will ever use …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Diller Wins a Court's Approval to Advance With Plan to Split Up IAC  —  IAC/InterActiveCorp.  Chairman Barry Diller won a big victory in his legal dispute with Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone, as a Delaware court ruled Mr. Diller can move ahead with his plan to split IAC into multiple companies.
Discussion: paidContent.org and Valleywag
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Rep. Berman: Pro-IP bill will become law in 2008
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Wall Street Journal:
Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
VeriSign ups cost of .com, .net domains second year in a row
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Adobe to remove Photoshop pic pimping clause
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Google's Asian Homepages
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Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Hannaford says malware planted on its store servers stole card data
Chip Griffin / Pardon the Disruption:
Don't Fear Failure, Learn from It
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
BlackBerry 9000 in the wild
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
HD DVD ceases to exist
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Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily:
Friendfeed Frenzy - Why it continues
Daniel Emerson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook friends not real friends: judge