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Oct. 8, according to foreign media reports, news groups and Internet security company VeriSign jointly announced today that news group spent 200 million U.S. dollars in buying 49% stake held by VeriSign, News Corporation has wholly-owned mobile content provider Jamba.
 
Jamba for the production of mobile phones such as wallpaper, ring tones and games and so on. In addition, it called for mobile phone users with "mobisodes" of Fox television video series, including "24-hour anti-terrorism" and "escape" and "get the follow-up bone."

Internet security company VeriSign has been trying to divest its slow-growth business, in order to focus on its core business - Web site naming and Internet security services.

In August this year, VeriSign Chief Executive Officer James Bidzos said that the economic downturn affected by the slow progress in the divestiture process, the time required may have to exceed expectations.

Sales in Jamba after the news, VeriSign’s early trading on the Nasdaq stock trading up 5.5 percentage points. The News Corporation shares are due to the downturn of the entire media sector dragged down the performance, down 1 percentage point.

News Corporation in 2007 to about 188,000,000 U.S. dollars from the price of VeriSign acquired Jamba 51% of the shares, then the two companies formed a joint venture. The News Corporation joint venture with Fox Mobile Entertainment business integration together.
　
In 2004, VeriSign cost about 273,000,000 U.S. dollars to purchase Germany’s Jamba based in Berlin. The company now set up a dual headquarters in Berlin and California.

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October 6, security researchers Aviv Raff last Thursday (October 2) revealed two iPhone security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow users unwittingly to visit a malicious Web site. The security researchers Apple these vulnerabilities reported to Apple in this Junly, but Apple did not patches and repaired these vulnerabilities.
 
As a result, he has no other option open smart these vulnerabilities.

The first vulnerability exists in the iPhone’s e-mail application and Safari browser. Safari browser display in a long URL address to general time to be amputated part of the address. In this way, malicious people will be able to disguise a malicious URL addresses, so users do not see the opportunity to address this.

Raff explained that hackers can use this vulnerability to fake a trusted legitimate Web site address at the beginning of a long URL address. In fact this point to address a totally different site. iphone users can only see that they are familiar with that part of the domain name, it is vulnerable to deception to click on a malicious link.

Raff said, iPhone’s e-mail application also has a security hole. This automatically download security vulnerabilities in HTML format e-mail links to the images.

Most of all e-mail application that allows users to download images, but each time the user needs to download before approval. This option will help set up e-mail users to protect themselves against spam by the interference, because if the recipient to open junk e-mail or download images, spammers will know.

Raff said that this was not a small security vulnerability. This is actually a design loophole in the security. Other e-mail client software makers repaired the security vulnerabilities a few years ago.