Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped into Firefox’s extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179167/Mozilla_yanks_password_stealing_Firefox_add_on
Trojan Injects Enrollment Screen for Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode Security Programs during Online Banking Sessions
Participants:
Birgitta Jonsdottir, MP Iceland: starting at 4:20 (and later at 13:20) (English)
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks in discussion with Professor Alistair Mullis: starting at 7:00 (English)
Remaining speech is in Dutch.
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http://debeveiligingsupdate.nl/audio/bevupd_72.mp3
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Prosecutors disclosed in a previous hearing that MI5 counter-espionage investigators acted on a tip-off from Dutch authorities, who he had approached asking for £2m. He had left MI6 after less than two years, apparently with Top Secret papers, and a laptop hard drive and memory sticks stuffed with highly classified information
The Netherlands will be the first ALDI country where this will happen. The Promedia eBook Reader aka N618 will be sold at a price of 229 euro. In the US e-reader prices are dropping to a price point well below 100 USD
Dutch language article: http://www.ereaders.nl/14071003_aldi_gaat_ereader_verkopen_voor_229_euro
More than 160,000 books from the 18th and 19th century will be scanned and made accessible via Google Books, the sites of the Royal Library and Europeana
Dutch language article: http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/nieuws/8063-kb-en-google-tekenen-overeenkomst-voor-digitalisering-boeken.html
Deal does not impede competition in the European Economic Area
This admission is potentially a very large problem for Google because it has maintained that its index rankings are unbiased and are computed from a natural pecking order derived from how other sites find a specific site important
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/google-admits-that-employees-change-index-rankings/1420
“eBay’s unauthorized incorporation was a misuse of inventors’ confidential and proprietary material”
The Internet, YouTube, and Twitter have changed the way Americans consume media–and mean that the FCC’s restrictions on seven dirty words should no longer be constitutional, a federal appeals court says
…Still…everybody is talking about it so he must be doing something right…
Government pays for licenses after tech giant given free information
100% free gives you 100% of the market…and then you charge them
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Google+gets+data+free+gets+bill/3270020/story.html
Of course, China can still filter or block certain Web searches through the Hong Kong site, as Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster discovered last month, but the compromise keeps the onus of censorship off Google, neutralizing the company’s previous threats to leave the country altogether. Other search engines, such as Bing and Yahoo, censor searches in accordance with Chinese law.
What does all this mean if you’re living filter-free in America? Directly, it means nothing. But as Paul La Monica points out at CNN Money, Google stocks are down 30 percent this year, and China is the world’s largest market. Put two and two together, and you can see why Google might have to get a little bit evil — just a little bit — to swing its fortunes back around. And I don’t think that’s exclusive to China
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200783/why_googles_back_in_china_and_why_you_should_care.html
