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Archive for 2011/02/08
Beginning Feb. 10, a federal grand jury in San Jose, Calif., will be presented with evidence collected by the FBI about Anonymous, the loosely based hacking group that in December launched mass denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, ebay and Visa in retaliation for those companies’ refusal to process payments to WikiLeaks
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Litigation, Organized CrimeJulian Assange Extradition Hearing To Continue on Friday
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, LitigationEuropean newspaper publishers slam Apple on subscription sales
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awarenesscalling for Apple to enable developers to push content updates to their applications and subscribers “without any restrictive conditions.”
Oracle Offers File Management Package for Cloud
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution, The CloudOne-size-fits-all phone charger due this year
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionOne member of the European Parliament and a handful of their advisors and assistants started a free software group last Saturday, aiming to increase the use of free and open source software in the European Parliament’s IT infrastructure
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionThe user group is open to all who works in the European Parliament, including staff and assistants working in political groups
More: http://www.osor.eu/news/european-parliament-starts-free-software-user-group
Facebook accounts of four Missouri state representatives are hacked
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyThough no exact cause has been established, the instances of hacking point to a potentially gaping computer security hole: A free, open wireless network for House visitors and legislators serves as a virtual welcome mat for hackers, security experts say. Each of the five recent hacking victims had used the network recently.
Dasient Inc., the leading provider of anti-malware solutions for websites and ad networks, today announced it has received a new round of funding from Google Ventures to accelerate the company’s future growth plans
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionThe art of making Google Art Project (Q&A)
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionReport: LTE to dominate WiMax in 4G market
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, Stats / reports
Slammed By Judge, ACS:Law Not Allowed To Drop File-Sharing Cases
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, LitigationEFF Warns That FCC Net Neutrality Rules Are A Bad, Bad Idea
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Net NeutralityIP Czar Report Hits On All The Lobbyist Talking Points; Warns Of More Draconian Copyright Laws To Come
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reportsEspinel’s first report on the “progress” of her strategy reads like a checklist of what the big IP lobbyists wanted. Not surprisingly, the US Chamber of Commerce, who misled Congress to create this role in the first place not only cheered on this new report, but also urged Espinel and the White House to go even further in passing even more draconian, legacy industry-protecting legislation.
And that appears to be coming. Within the report, there’s a note that new copyright laws are on their way “in the near future.”
“All bloggers, forum posters, social networking users, and usenet users can be sued over news quotes/clippings, and even pictures but the funny thing is you can also be sued for your own content that you created yourself because RightHaven can get the copyright of any bloggers content then sue them for it. So this IS the end of Free Speech as we know it. Copyright is King! Those that want Free Speech have to afford a patent attorney and patent everything they say”
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Copyright, Education / AwarenessA brief history of the BlackBerry User Interface
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionSimon Axten, of Facebook’s public policy team, said today that the “real name culture” was an essential element of the social networking platform. However, the policy has also been blamed for making it easy for oppressive regimes to roll up networks of dissidents who use Facebook to communicate
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyThe rogue Facebook app creation tool kit creates bogus applications such as Tinie Facebook Viral Application, would offer lures such as the supposed opportunity to check on who has been viewing a Facebook profile
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection…but instead offers a means to direct surfers towards survey scams, spread malware or act as a tool in furtherance of click-fraud scams
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/08/facebook_exploit_toolkit/
A Russian hacker received a five-year suspended sentence on Tuesday after pleading guilty to playing a key part in the robbery of $10m from RBS WorldPay in November 2008
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, EnforcementYevgeny Anikin, 27, served as the “software specialist” in a cybercrime ring that hacked into WorldPay’s systems and created counterfeit payroll debit cards with artificially boosted daily withdrawal limits before mules cashed out compromised accounts by withdrawing money from ATM machines across Europe, Asia and the US
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/08/rbs_worldpay_hacker_guilty_plea/
Sony lawyers now targeting anyone who posts PlayStation 3 hack
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, EnforcementT-Mobile USA must be feeling the heat from the other major US carriers, because the company has announced that it will offer every single phone in its lineup—smartphones included—for free this coming weekend
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / AwarenessThe catch is that customers must sign onto a new two-year contract, but since that’s required anyway for most phone discounts, it’s hard to argue with completely free
Pierre Louette, Senior Executive Vice President, Group General Secretary of France Telecom: “There are two principles on which the Internet developed: zero-price rule, and non-discrimination rule. These are the two underlying principles being questioned today. Can we completely build the future of the Internet without revisiting those two principles?”
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Net Neutrality, Tech EvolutionSurprise Witness: I Don’t Like Assange, but He’s Being Framed
Posted: 2011/02/08 in Education / Awareness, Litigation“I should add that I am by no means a supporter of WikiLeaks or Julian Assange (I am critical of their work) and I have no liking of Mr. Assange. My only concern has been to ensure that this investigation is effective, the real offender is punished and to avoid a possible miscarriage of justice.”
More: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/07/julian-assanges-lawyer-says-key-evidence-is-being-kept-under-wr/
