Flaw leaves home routers vulnerable

Millions of household routers are susceptible to a flaw that creates a handy means for hackers to hijack surfing sessions, or hack into home networks, reveals The Register.

Craig Heffner, a researcher at security consultancy Seismic, is due to detail the flaw and release a proof-of-concept tool at the Black Hat conference, in Vegas, later this month. The DNS rebinding-related security flaw affects kit from Linksys Belkin and Dell, among others.

DNS rebinding have been around for years. Heffner claims he has discovered a new variant of the theme, which initially involves luring a surfer into visiting a Web site containing malicious code.

US firm Raytheon has unveiled its anti-aircraft laser at the Farnborough Airshow, in Hampshire, writes the BBC.

The Laser Close-In Weapon System can either be used on its own, or alongside a gunnery system.

Raytheon says the solid state fibre laser produces a 50-kilowatt beam and can be used against unmanned aerial vehicles, mortar, rockets and small surface ships.

Google has opened up a key data stream coming out of Google Buzz that gives developers access to content as it's published, says CNet.

Access to the so-called "firehose" of Google Buzz data was turned on this week, Google announced in a blog post.

This allows developers to incorporate public Google Buzz content into their applications without having to go and find it: Google Buzz will just zap it directly to their apps through an API.

A German man has been arrested for using malware to spy on young women using their Webcams, reports V3.co.uk.

The man had used a Trojan to infect a victim's account via ICQ, a spokesman for the Aachen state prosecutor told the local Westfalenblatt newspaper.

He then used this account to find other victims and police estimate 150 women may have been viewed.