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What Gene Tests Can Really Tell You (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
If Greg Lennon is right, then the personal genome gold rush has a major flaw: There's not much gold there -- not yet.

Peculiar Patch Pits iPhone Security vs. Safari (Washington Post)
Earlier this year, Security Fix criticized Apple for making iPhone users wait for security updates that Apple had fixed in its other products four months earlier. Now, it appears that iPhone users may have received a patch for a critical security hole four months before Apple fixed the flaw in its other products. Taking a look at the vulnerability summary from the update Apple released last week ...

Vista flaw could corrupt kernel (TechWorld)
Austrian researchers find new vulnerability An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorised code on a PC.

Glitches Reported as BlackBerry Storm Nears U.S. Debut (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)
The BlackBerry Storm has been debuting around the world, but rumors are spreading about a possible shortage in the U.S. News reports also indicate Research In Motion discovered a security flaw in the Storm that has left Verizon Wireless scrambling to update the firmware in the final hours before its U.S. release on Friday.

iPhone security flaw dials number from website (MacNN)
The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Germany has allegedly discovered an iPhone vulnerability that allows a maliciously crafted website to force the phone to dial a number, according to Spiegel. The researchers claim that a programmer would only need to know basic programming, with just three lines of code required to exploit the issue. Clicking the link to a malicious ...