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Social media continues to grow and more people are finding themselves spending an increasing amount of time on places like Twitter or Facebook. So much time in fact that some are worrying if this isn't affecting other aspects of their lives. Thankfully, if you're one of those wanting to leave it all behind for good, a number of sites have popped up which offer 'virtual suicide', a means of deleting your online identities. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't like these kind of sites too much and has been fighting to block them starting with Sepukoo and now moving on to "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine," a website offering a similar way of deleting your accounts and data from Facebook and other sites. "After more than 50.000 friends being unfriended and more than 500 forever 'signed-out' users, Facebook started to block our suicidemachine from their servers without any comment! We are currently looking in ways to circumvent this ungrounded restriction imposed on our service!," the site now informs its visitors in a popup overlay. It's obvious why Facebook doesn't like the site very much but, like with Sepukoo before, it does have a legitimate claim in blocking it as it clearly violates at least a couple of Facebook's policies. The social network's terms of service specifically prohibit users from handing out their account credentials to third parties. It also prevents other users than the account's owner from accessing the site using the acquired credentials. Finally, ...

Mozilla has released stability and security updates for the 3.5 and 3.0 Firefox branches. The new 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 versions of the popular browser address several security vulnerabilities, some of which are rated critical. Five of the bugs were common for the latest stable versions of Firefox 3.0 and 3.5, while two only affected the latter. By their impact, the flaws that affect both branches are organized as follows: critical (MFSA 2009-65), high (MFSA 2009-68), moderate (MFSA 2009-69, MFSA 2009-70), low (MFSA 2009-71). The Firefox 3.5-only vulnerabilities, MFSA 2009-66 and MFSA 2009-67, are considered critical. The MFSA 2009-65 advisory concerns several crashes with evidence of memory corruption. Even though there is no evidence of exploitation, such conditions can theoretically be leveraged to execute arbitrary malicious code. A similar issue is described in MFSA 2009-66 and is caused by bugs in the liboggplay library. An attacker can potentially exploit these issues to generate crashes that can facilitate remote code execution. The final critical flaw with arbitrary code execution implications is covered in MFSA 2009-67 and is caused by an integer overflow in the Theora video library. Meanwhile, MFSA 2009-68 deals with a problem in the NTLM implementation, which can be exploited by an attacker via specially crafted Web page to force a user to send rogue requests to an application using their NTLM credentials. Another issue, explained in MFSA 2009-69, can be used to forge the SSL indicators for a connection over an insecure protocol. The ...