Archive for 2011/04/08
How The Masters Might Make Your 3DTV Worth It
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionAccording to the Guardian, one little old lady in Georgia managed to cut off an entire country, Armenia, from the Internet for five hours Her weapon? A shovel
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Education / Awareness, Network SecurityThe story goes that the woman was hunting for copper, which is worth real money these days everywhere, when in mid-dig, her shovel cut the fibre-logic cable which carried 90% of Armenia’s Internet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/how-to-cut-off-the-internet-the-easy-easy-a-shovel/8631
Federal Web sites may go dark in shutdown
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyEpsilon partner warned of phishing attacks
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionVatican priest seems particularly impressed by the application of intelligence and creativity to problem solving ingrained in hacker culture. He was also taken by the open sharing of information and the rejection of the profit motive, at least among a sub-set of hackers
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Education / AwarenessA House of Commons Treasury Select Committee report has criticised banks for failing their customers in the fight against online fraud
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionOfficial figures put fraud bill at £46.7m for 2010
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/online_banking_criticism/
UK Domain Seizures: Nominet Admits It’s Helped Police Seize 3,000 Sites
Posted: 2011/04/08 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, EnforcementUnlike the US, there isn’t even a formal process with a judge rubber stamping the requests. Instead, the police ask, and Nominet is compelled to suspend the domain
