The Little Hacker's Room

A primary school is closed in Antrim after an explosive device is found by an eight-year-old pupil and carried into a classroom.

The police and not the government should decide whether to re-open the investigation into the News of the World phone-hacking allegations, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

Les électeurs du Nouveau-Brunswick assistent à une véritable surenchère de promesses électorales de la part du Parti libéral et du Parti progressiste-conservateur.

The MWR Labs group at MWR Info Security is running a series of articles comparing Linux distributions from a security point of view. a href=http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/notices/security_mechanisms_in_linux_environment__part_1___userspace_memory_protection/Part 1: user space memory protection/a looks at protection against memory corruption attacks, while a href=http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/notices/assessing_the_tux_strength_part_2_into_the_kernel/ Part 2 - into the kernel/a examines kernel security settings. spanThe notable exceptions in the results are Fedora and Ubuntu. Both distributions do not allow the ability to write code to a certain memory region and then execute it. This can be observed from the results of the first five tests. Fedora goes one step further and also prevents the bss, data and heap sections from being marked as executable using the 'mprotect' system call. It should be noted that there would still be numerous other memory regions where an attacker could upload their code and then use the 'mprotect' function to mark it as executable./span

Les proches de la femme de 42ans, portée disparue depuis plus d'une semaine, craignent le pire après la découverte de restes humains, dimanche, dans la région d'Orangeville, en Ontario.

England manager Fabio Capello says striker Wayne Rooney is in the right frame of mind to play against Switzerland on Tuesday despite allegations about his private life.

Le gouvernement Harper dit vouloir s'attaquer à l'immigration illégale à la source. Le ministre Jason Kenney se rend en Asie pour demander aux autorités d'intensifier leurs actions contre la corruption chez les consultants.

Le gouvernement espagnol n'entend pas modifier sa politique antiterroriste en réaction à l'annonce de l'ETA de ne plus mener d'actions armées. Madrid poursuivra sa lutte contre l'organisation indépendantiste basque.

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Les 17 centrales nucléaires du pays demeureront en service encore au moins douze ans, a annoncé la coalition au pouvoir, repoussant ainsi de nombreuses années une fermeture prévue, à l'origine, en 2021.

Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta, following the death of his son in the Bahamas, are dropped.

Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson says he is happy to meet police after fresh claims of phone tapping while he was a tabloid editor.

England manager Fabio Capello insists striker Wayne Rooney will play in the Euro 2012 qualifier away to Switzerland on Tuesday.

Tony Blair cancels a planned book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle".

American Pie actor Chris Klein pleaded no contest to drink-driving following and will serve four years probation.

Nearly 20 people die as a suicide bomber rams an explosives laden pickup truck into a police station in north-west Pakistan.

Robin Soderling is in action at the US Open ahead of a night session that includes Roger Federer, after Caroline Wozniacki earlier saw off Maria Sharapova.

Five men, including two ex-councillors, are jailed over a failed postal vote scam in Bradford during the 2005 general election.

A Flintshire mother calls for tougher sentences for so-called "one-punch killers" after her son's attacker was jailed for 40 months for manslaughter.

Former member of British rock group ELO, Mike Edwards, is killed in a freak accident when a hay bale rolls on to a Devon road and crushes his van.