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United routes root of outage to router

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United Airlines blamed a router problem for disrupting service and halting flights for over an hour today. 

According to the Los Angeles Times, the airline said the problem “degraded network connectivity for various applications.” The airline halted flights from 8:26 AM EST until 9:47 AM, after which operations were back to normal, United said.

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Google let root certificate for Gmail expire, causing e-mail hiccups

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On Saturday morning, one of Google’s root certificates expired, causing millions of users’ mail clients to suddenly protest. The certificate for Google’s intermediate certificate authority (Google Internet Authority G2) was used to issue Gmail’s certificate for SMTP, and the expiration at 11:55am EDT caused many e-mail clients to stop receiving Gmail messages. While the problem affected most Gmail users using PC and mobile mail clients, Web access to Gmail was unaffected.

Google reported on the company’s Apps status page that engineers had been alerted to “issues with Gmail” at 1:21pm EDT on Saturday. In a later status update, a company spokesperson noted that “affected users are able to access Gmail but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior” and that “smtp.gmail.com is displaying an invalid certificate.”

The root certificate for Google’s certificate authority was issued by GeoTrust. By 4pm EDT Saturday, the certificate had been updated and is now valid until December 2016.

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Rootpipe — Critical Mac OS X Yosemite Vulnerability Allows Root Access Without Password

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Let’s just give Apple some time to roll out a patch to affected users,” Emil Kvarnhammar, IT specialist and hacker security company Truesec, tweeted from his twitter account. By exploiting the vulnerability in the Mac OS X Yosemite, an attacker could …
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Future Android security feature could break many root apps – Android Community

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Future Android security feature could break many root apps
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A set of commits have recently been pushed to the Android Open Source Project that seeks to harden the platform against malicious attacks. But while the intention is definitely good, this new feature could very well spell disaster for the dozens of …

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