Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.

The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: ‘Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?’

After making their way through passport control at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) last Monday afternoon the pair were detained by armed guards.

Despite telling officials the term ‘destroy’ was British slang for ‘party’, they were held on suspicion of planning to ‘commit crimes’ and had their passports confiscated.

Leigh was also quizzed about another tweet which quoted hit US comedy Family Guy which read: ‘3 weeks today, we’re totally in LA p****** people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up!

Federal agents even searched his suitcase looking for spades and shovels, claiming Emily was planning to act as Leigh’s ‘look out’ while he raided Marilyn’s tomb.

‘I couldn’t believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show.

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As some bloggers pointed out with respect to the dress code recommendations for staff, the translation from the Malay language into English should not have been talking about “clothes that poke (the) eye” but rather indicated that women wear “appropriate clothing and worn neatly and politely in line with the practice of noble character”.

In another section of the ministry’s website, the English translation misinformed that after the 1957 independence from Britain, the new Malaysian government took “drastic measures to increase the level of any national security threat”.

A couple of days ago, Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told The Star daily “We have corrected the mistakes and translations are no longer done that way. It is now done manually.”

However, when the uppercaise blog in early January, before the ministry took the English pages down, fed some of the respective Malay strings into Google Translate, the translations did not match what had been up on the government website. In the test, for example, the site’s “ethical clothing” (probably, appropriate attire) became “garment of ethics”. This led to speculation whether some other type of machine translation might have been used instead or in addition.

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While this project has built a framework of functionality around SDL Trados Studio, thereby enhancing said product with functionality it does not natively provide.

Anybody wanting to develop for the OpenExchange must own SDL Trados Studio Professional and has to shell out a one-time “security and functionality review” fee in the amount of EUR 250. Starting in July 2011, there will also be an annual EUR 100 listing fee plus a 30% royalty fee that have to be paid, unless only a free application is offered.

Among the more interesting items found there are

• SubRip File Type which allows for the processing of subtitle files
• SDL XLIFF Converter for MS Office allowing for proofing Trados Studio files in MS Word or Excel and reimporting them back into Trados Studio

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In a May 18, 2010 letter to the commission, EPIC’s executive director, Marc Rotenberg, expressed concern that Google’s actions may have violated the federal Wiretap Act as well as Section 705 of the Communications Act, which forbids the interception of radio communications without authorization.

Time will have to tell if this investigation will result in more than a mere slap on the wrist for Google, which is what the Federal Trade Commission FTC was ultimately satisfied with when requiring Google to promise to delete the data it had collected and to improve its privacy training.

For capturing location information of wireless networks, no matter whether they are encrypted or not, it would have been sufficient to simply record the SSID (service set identifier). Given massive difference in data storage space requirements of storing an SSID of up to 32 Bytes length vs. storing a multitude of payload data that may include user names and passwords transmitted while the Google Street View car was within reach of any given wireless network, it stands to reason that this should have raised an internal red flag sooner rather than later.

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According to The H Security, these new attacks confirm observations of the exploit in commercial packages sold to criminals – which means attacks will probably soon become more frequent.

For IE, the exploit can be curbed by enabling Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. DEP is enabled by default in IE8. To activate DPE in IE7, run Microsoft’s Fix-It tool, available here.

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Cell phone OSs, processors and available memory are just too small for countermeasures like DEP. And in the rush to be number one in features neither Apple, Google, nor Nokia is likely to strongly police apps *before* they become available. Before you load an app ask yourself, do I really need it and how long has it been available.

According to Shanghai Daily, “the ‘zombie’ virus, hidden in a bogus antivirus application, can send the phone user’s SIM card information to hackers, who then remotely control the phone to send URL links.”

In its Top 10 security trends for 2011, security vendor Imperva asserts “We expect exponential growth in the number of incidents related to mobile devices in the next few years. From theft or compromise of information in these devices, through massive infection campaigns, and up to frequent exploit of the vulnerabilities introduced into the server side.”

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However, as The H Security reports, Adobe has confirmed another unpatched hole in Adobe Reader due to a flaw in the Doc.printSeps JavaScript function. At present, an exploit that is already in circulation only crashes the application.

This new Adobe Reader vulnerability is affecting all versions from 9.2 or 8.1 onwards for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X. According to Adobe, an update for both Reader and Acrobat will be released the week of November 15th, though it is not clear, yet, if said update will fix this new problem that was identified right on the heels of the authplay.dll hole we recently alerted our readers to.

The latest version of Adobe Flash Player is always available at this link. Please note that you will have to visit this link separately in Internet Explorer (which installs the Flash Active X plugin for IE) and other browsers (which install and use the non-IE version).

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Also included in the patched version of Chrome is an updated version of the Adobe Flash Player, providing Chrome users with an early fix ahead of the official patch release by Adobe later today.

Among the dozen flaws that were fixed in Chrome 7.0.517.44 were one in its JavaScript engine, three in aspects of its text handling and a couple related to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).

According to Computerworld, Google paid $7,500 in bounties to eight researchers who reported 11 of the 12 bugs.

Just a few days ago, Google expanded this program that pays security researchers who report software flaws in the company’s products discreetly from merely covering its Chrome open source browser project to also include bugs fort its web properties, including Gmail, YouTube and Blogger. Google’s client applications (e.g. Android, Picasa and Google Desktop) are, however, not included in the expanded bounty program.

Given the cap of $3,133.7 (leet speak for “elite”), the focus remains on public recognition combined with a financial reward and is not likely to attract anybody interested in a get rich quick scheme selling security vulnerabilities.

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The new versions of Firefox, 3.6.12 and 3.5.15 are not vulnerable to this exploit, but users who visited the site before installing the updated version might have been infected with a Trojan horse program.

According to Firefox security engineer Daniel Veditz “Firefox 4 beta users appear safe for the moment.”

Norwegian security vendor Telenor SOC reported the bug on, detailing that the Nobel site redirected to a Taiwanese attack server which then launched a JavaScript-based exploit that, if successful, placed a Trojan horse on the victim’s computer.

To download the new version of Firefox, visit http://www.mozilla.com/.

Also affected are Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. A fixed version of the Thunderbird news and email client is available here and a fixed version of the SeaMonkey “all-in-one internet application suite” here.

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A sample exploit illustrating this vulnerability is already in circulation, opening the Windows calculator once a web page featuring the exploit code is visited. Obviously it wouldn’t be all that difficult to start another program instead using the same mechanisms.

This update is unrelated to the holes reported on earlier in the week in Adobe’s Flash Player and Reader applications.

Users should update their Shockwave Player as soon as possible, downloading the latest version from Adobe’s website.

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