Archive for 2011/03/28
MySpace loses 10 million users in a month
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsWhat Newzbin2 have done is set up what is known as a ‘hidden service’ with the world-famous TOR anonymity network. This means that by using the above URL with a TOR-enabled browser, anyone can access Newzbin2, even if its domain name is blocked or seized
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Tech EvolutionFor Google, Android is not even a product with a business plan. It’s just a weapon at the service of their master domination strategy, a way to destroy any potential threats that may eventually kill their search monster. This is how they are doing it and the potential consequences
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionWhat are the potential threats to Google’s castle? Basically, any product that stands between the user and Google and has the potential to distract the choice of search destination is a threat.
John Doerr, once said “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.” Android may be the opposite of that, the greatest legal destruction of wealth in history.
Much more: http://gizmodo.com/#!5785983/android-may-be-the-greatest-legal-destruction-of-wealth-in-history
Chinese Blogger Arrested amid Online Revolutionary Suppression
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicySign Up for Dish Network, Get a Free Gun
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsThe folks who run Facebook are laughing all the way to the bank. They’re making money hand over fist, and all they have to do is sit back and watch as the people who comprise their product volunteer tons of incredibly personal information. Then they sell access to that information to any advertiser or other business who wants it
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionPrivacy: Facebook’s Achilles heel
James Gosling, the notable programmer who founded Java at Sun Microsystems, has joined Google, a company locked in a lawsuit over how the technology is used in Android
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionWhen Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems last year, Gosling decided not to join.
Oracle’s ways evidently didn’t agree with Gosling. He called Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison “Larry, Prince of Darkness.” And, he said, “During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer’s eyes sparkle.”
Intellectual capital becomes cybercrime Holy Grail
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reportsCybercriminals are dropping the focus on personal information to spend more time swiping corporate intellectual capital, according to a report by McAfee and Science Applications International Corp.
The upshot: It’s far more profitable for cybercrooks to steal intellectual capital from big name corporations
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intellectual-capital-becomes-cybercrime-holy-grail/46572
Netflix inks deal with Paramount for subscription TV rights in Canada
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolutionobtaining exclusive subscription television rights to all first-run films
Sometimes It’s Better To Just Let People Copy Your Content Than Deal With Licensing
Posted: 2011/03/28 in CopyrightMySQL.com was hacked over the weekend via an attack which used a blind SQL injection exploit to pull off the pawnage
Posted: 2011/03/28 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessHackers extracted usernames and password hashes from the site, which were subsequently posted to pastebin.com. Any easy to guess login credentials could be easily extracted from this data using rainbow tables to match dictionary passwords to their hash values
This information revealed that the director of product management at WordPress used a four digit number as his password, among other snippets, net security firm Sophos reports
