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Heartbleed-like bug in OpenSSH dismissed as a hoax

2014-05-06 13:12:06| InfoWorld: Top News

Hackers claiming to have found a critical flaw in a widely used open-source remote login software, OpenSSH, are likely bluffing, according to a developer affiliated with the project. OpenSSH is used to remotely log into Unix-based systems securely and is incorporated into a number of operating systems, routers, and switches made by vendors such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, and Red Hat.

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Bomb hoax at Pakistan Secretariat stirs panic

2014-01-25 02:35:10| Electronics - Topix.net

ISLAMABAD: Panic and fear engulfed the Pakistan Secretariat, especially its blocks A, B, C and D as soon as the news regarding presence of a bomb in the secretariat surfaced on Friday.

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Hoax Highlights Publishing Problem

2013-10-17 16:56:00| Chemical Processing

Bogus research papers get accepted by scores of open-source academic journals

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Fact-checkers rip Obama group's claim on climate change 'hoax' vote

2013-05-04 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Fox: A recent video from a President Obama-aligned group is under fire from fact-checkers for claiming hundreds of House members voted to call climate change a "hoax" -- namely, because they didn't. The video from Organizing for Action cleverly splices together quotes from Republican climate change skeptics while building up to the factoid about the vote, which was on an amendment to a broader bill in 2011. The video then includes the following text: "Number of House members who voted in 2011 that...

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