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News you may have missed #0259

January 19, 2010 by intelNews Leave a comment

Jordanians threatened Balawi’s family, says paper. The Washington Post reports that members of the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) threatened to end Khost suicide bomber Humam Khalil al-Balawi’s “medical career, and […] hinted they could cause problems for his family”, unless he cooperated with them.
Google hack attack was ultra sophisticated, new details show. Unknown hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released last week by the anti-virus firm McAfee.

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