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I guess Al Franken may need to find another place that will let him complain about Bush.

Air America Radio, the liberal talk-radio network launched two years ago with a plan to counter the dominance of conservative talk shows, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ­on Friday.

In a filing to a bankruptcy court in Manhattan, Air America said it had lost $40.9m since its launch in 2004, including $13m so far this year. The station, based in New York and with 4m listeners, has been through a string of chief executives, appointing Scott Elberg to the position last week.

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This type of story is happening more and more lately.  For those who are not aware, Microsoft is only willing to release security patches once per month, except for cases where the patch plugs a DRM hole.  Because of this fact, hackers have started to release zero-day attacks a day or two after the monthly batch of security patches are released.  This strategy guarantees that they can have their way with your machine for a full month before Microsoft patches the hole.  This newest vulnerability is not thought to be as bad but it is being released on this same schedule.

Just days after Microsoft issued a record 26 patches, including 16 for Office, on Friday Symantec confirmed that just-released exploit code attacks a new, zero-day vulnerability in the PowerPoint presentation software.
According to Symantec’s alert, the exploit triggers a crash of PowerPoint. “It does not appear that the vulnerability can be leveraged to execute code, however the possibility has not been conclusively eliminated,” said Symantec to customers of its DeepSight threat system. “[We have] tested the exploit and it is confirmed to work as advertised.” Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia rated the threat as “highly critical,” its second-highest warning rank. 

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It appears that McDonalds in Japan had a giveaway where the prize was an mp3 player infected with qqpass.  Why would McDonalds ever think they could get away with this??

In all 10,000 winners were announced and each got a Mac branded flash DAP preloaded with 10 tunes. However the MP3 players were infected with QQpass a very dangerous malware. So your PC is infected once you connect the DAP and it starts logging and transmitting username, passwords and other vital information. McDonalds Japan has apologized and set up a 24 hour helpline for those affected by the spyware loaded MP3 player.

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