Archive for 2011/04/11

U.K. police arrested three men late last week in connection with using the SpyEye malware program to steal online banking details

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215682/UK_police_arrest_three_men_over_SpyEye_malware

South Korea’s financial watchdog on Monday launched an intensive investigation into the hacking of private information of a large number of customers for the country’s top consumer finance company Hyundai Capital Services

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2011/04/11/58/0503000000AEN20110411006600320F.HTML

Viacom to Cablevision: iPad app goes too far

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20052823-266.html

The real-life drama between Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be over, as a federal appeals court judge tells the twin brothers to accept their $65 million settlement with Facebook and move on

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20052865-266.html

Google invests in giant BrightSource solar project

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20052868-54.html

Bandwidth Caps Forcing Users To Police Their Own Household Internet Usage

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110408/16503613835/bandwidth-caps-forcing-users-to-police-their-own-household-internet-usage.shtml

Over 250 Top US Legal Scholars Condemn The Treatment Of Bradley Manning

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110411/04400713852/over-250-top-us-legal-scholars-condemn-treatment-bradley-manning.shtml

Sony Settles PS3 Jailbreaking Lawsuit Against Geohot

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110411/10181413854/sony-settles-ps3-jailbreaking-lawsuit-against-geohot.shtml

Microsoft has accused Google of making “misleading security claims” to the US government

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Google, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/microsoft_accuses_google_of_misleading_us_government_over_security_of_google_apps/

“We are beginning to untangle the complexity of the brain,” reads a statement from UCL research fellow Tom Mrsic-Flogel

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/brain_boffin_breakthrough/

The website of web application security provider Barracuda Networks has sustained an attack that appears to have exposed sensitive data concerning the company’s partners and employee login credentials

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/barracuda_networks_attack/

DARPA put out a request for technologies which could deliver “full disk and system encryption of [smartphones and tablets] (specifically Apple and Android platforms) to include a pre-boot environment to load the operating system … that can be deployed in less than 90 days”

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/darpa_full_disk_encrypt_ios_droid/

A member of the public was shocked to find that links to a web page used to report incidents of suspected child abuse to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre were insecure

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/ceop_website_security_glitch/

Facebook has reportedly inked a deal with Baidu to build a social network for the People’s Republic

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/baidu_facebook_china/

Counter rumor: Facebook has not signed a deal in China
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/counter-rumor-facebook-has-not-signed-a-deal-in-china/1152

Google has confirmed it will not be collecting any more pictures for its Street View service in Germany

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Google, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/google_street_view_germany/

The cryptography Apple uses to secure AirPlay wireless media streams – and to prevent anyone easily supporting the protocol for playback – has been cracked

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Education / Awareness

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/11/airplay_unlock/

Dutch government to prohibit downloading from an illegal source, to block foreign pirate sites

Posted: 2011/04/11 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Public Policy

Dutch news broadcaster RTL is reporting that the Dutch government will prohibit illegal downloading. According to State Secretary  of Security and Justice Mr. Fred Teeven downloading at home without paying for it will be banned in the future. Foreign sites which illegally offer music, movies and e-books  can be blocked. The Dutch government will also put an end to the Private Copy Tax (60 euro cents per blank DVD) which was introduced as a compensation to rights owners for all the unauthorized downloading and private copying that took place in The Netherlands.

(my summary and translation)

Dutch language news article and video: http://tinyurl.com/6599ozb

See also:

Dutch Government To Outlaw File-Sharing and Block The Pirate Bay
http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-government-to-outlaw-file-sharing-and-block-the-pirate-bay-110411/