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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.

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VLC player patched promptly

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As we predicted, a patch protecting the VLC media player against the flaw disclosed in Month of Apple Bugs #2 was quickly released.

The VideoLAN team released a source code patch overnight, and promised that "Updated binaries for Windows and MacOS X will be published within the next few hours," while "Linux and BSD users should get relevant software upgrades from their respective distribution/OS vendor."

An alternative and unofficial patch has been offered by Landon Fuller ("more for completeness than necessity") as part of his plan to release Application Enhancer modules providing interim protection against possible exploits of bugs publicised by the MoAB project until the affected programs are updated.

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