Archive for 2011/05/10

Queen to get an iPad

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/09/queen_ipad/

Facebook for workers website LinkedIn has set the price for which its shares will initially be sold

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/09/linkedin_float_price/

Federal authorities have raided the home of a suburban Washington family after tracing a crippling attack on the website of Kiss frontman and anti-piracy crusader Gene Simmons to an internet connection there

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/09/kiss_gene_simmons_ddos_probe/

The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/the-hackers-hacked-main-anonymous-irc-servers-seized.ars

WSJ: Microsoft to buy Skype for $7bn. Rest of world: for real?

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/wsj-microsoft-to-buy-skype-for-7bn-rest-of-world-for-real.ars

HTC will have two Facebook-branded phones out next month

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/05/09/htc_facebook_smartphones/

Sony execs are mulling the possibility of offering bounties for any information that leads to the arrests of hackers who breached its network

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/09/sony_hacker_bounty/

Billion-dollar PSN outage may not be fully remedied until May 31

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/billion-dollar-psn-outage-may-not-be-fully-remedied-until-may-31.ars

Privacy groups applaud Senator Rockefeller’s “Do Not Track” bill

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/privacy-groups-applaud-senator-rockefellers-do-not-track-bill.ars

TalkTalk HomeSafe Blocks BitTorrent Sites

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/talktalk-homesafe-blocks-bittorrent-sites-110509/

The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”

Posted: 2011/05/10 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-the-battle-of-internets-is-about-to-begin-110509/