Archive for 2011/02/23

According to the 2011 CyberSecurity Watch Survey conducted by CSO magazine, security breaches caused by once-trusted employees and contractors account for one in five attacks across all industry sectors. Moreover, the consequences of such events can be significant: Insider security breaches are more costly than those by outside hackers, according to one-third of the survey’s respondents

Much more: http://fcw.com/articles/2011/02/28/feat-cybersecurity-insider-threats.aspx

http://tinyurl.com/4t7dcq9

http://tweakers.net/nieuws/72817/sony-breidt-juridisch-antipiraterijteam-uit.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/8340890/Samsung-TVs-send-pictures-to-your-remote-control-or-mobile-phone.html

http://gizmodo.com/#!5767471/episodes-from-every-star-trek-series-ever-coming-to-netflix

http://gizmodo.com/#!5766254/breaking-news-man-tweets-without-really-thinking-about-it-first

It’s not your imagination. Movies are getting worse as the years go on and someone has proof—complete with an explanation

http://gizmodo.com/#!5767790/proof-that-movies-are-getting-worse

http://gizmodo.com/#!5767763/why-is-google-collecting-the-last-four-digits-of-kids-social-security-numbers

http://kotaku.com/#!5767920/this-is-how-minority-report-surfs-the-web-on-its-lunch-break

http://gizmodo.com/#!5768236/americas-favorite-video-games-all-in-one-place

http://gizmodo.com/#!5768144/sorami-opens-up-skydrives-25-gb-cloud-storage-to-your-android

Nokia

http://gizmodo.com/#!5767273/nokia-culture-will-out

In general, that’s been considered a good thing; but in the wake of widespread antigovernment protests across a number of Middle East and North African countries, the Facebook philosophy is facing a sharp challenge as critics suggest that a real-names-only policy could see pro-democracy activists targeted individually by autocratic governments

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20034879-36.html

Every new agent who goes to the Secret Service academy goes through a week of training” in computer forensics, including how to deal with encrypted files and hard drives, U.S. Secret Service agent Stuart Van Buren said at the RSA computer security conference last week

More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20035168-281.html

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110221/23203913198/revolving-door-between-govt-industry-continues-pharma-lawyer-goes-to-uspto-as-govt-financial-regulator-goes-to-wall-st.shtml

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110223/01341713217/sonys-ps3-lawsuit-is-about-control-not-piracy.shtml

If 99% of works created are not due to copyright incentives, by the very argument of the copyright maximalists, copyright should be deemed worthless

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110221/12161313191/amount-content-created-spite-copyright-is-staggering.shtml

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/49141

This analysis uses real-time data from the 110 Internet providers around the world to identify possible ongoing Internet traffic manipulation in Middle East countries with active protest movements. More details on our data collection infrastructure and methodology are available in our recent academic paper

More: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/49140

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/news/article_1621386.php/Report-exposes-Italy-and-Malta-as-top-EU-arms-exporters-to-Libya

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/23/oracle_claims_google_copied_hundreds_of_java_files/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/22/facebook_clickjacking_attacks/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/23/medics_email_database_obscene_hack/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/23/ecj_asked_to_rule_on_resale_of_software_licences/

Ivi’s business model was simple: grab over-the-air TV signals from Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, then retransmit them to paying Internet customers. A judge today shut it down

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/internet-streams-of-over-the-air-broadcasts-illegal-says-judge.ars

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/guides/2011/02/howto-root-a-nook-color-to-transform-it-into-an-android-tablet.ars

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/russia-glenn-beck-agree-google-fomenting-actual-revolutions.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/ftc-says-it-will-look-into-apples-marketing-of-in-app-purchases-to-kids.ars

“The fascists from rabobank where investing in the arms industry(the arms that they are investing is also going to the police, military in the Netherlands, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Libya, Algeria and other country’s).
Rabobank calls this justifies action, and we also get Shell, ING, ABN-Amro, Randstad. All these mentioned fascists company’s of the system are paramount in their view that they justify the action.

The attacks on Rabobank justify what we call action! Future attacks on Shell, ING, ABN-Amro, Randstad these companies accountable!

In Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, the above mentioned companies and / or subsidiaries that have been attacked by splinter cells called the Fire. A truth that is not released by the representatives of the syteem. This shows our strong international solidarity.

Attacks we are claiming:

• June 2010- setting the tower in fire in Utrecht(Netherlands)
• October 2010- setting the tower in fire in Utrecht(Netherlands)
• February 2011-setting the tower in fire and attacks on the website of Rabobank in Utrecht(Netherlands)”

More: http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2011/02/74035.shtml

Previously:

Dutch RABO bank to file criminal complaint having suffered cyber attack, Dutch National Cyber Security Center coming up and call to address problems caused by data encryption
http://vrritti.com/2011/02/22/dutch-rabo-bank-to-file-criminal-complaint-having-suffered-cyber-attack-dutch-national-cyber-security-center-coming-up-and-call-to-address-problems-caused-by-data-encryption/

http://prmac.com/release-id-22039.htm

Named after the Zeus Trojan, a keystroke logger, ZeusiLeaks and its botnet “leaks” sensitive information silently in the background to a network of “Zeus operators,” or underground data brokers. Beyond bank passwords and one-time hit’s, the accumulation of “casual data,” such as from fleeting messages exchanged via social networking websites, add up to some very coherent information. Automated analysis of words sent via these trivial online messages can significantly undermine an organization’s data secrecy.

More: http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-san-francisco/zeusileaks-wikileaks-on-automated-stealth-mode