Archive for 2011/06/09

Greek police have arrested an 18-year-old suspected of hacking into systems run by Interpol, the FBI, and the Pentagon

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

…allegedly began his hacking spree with an attack against the FBI when he was only 15

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/greek_police_arrest_pentagon_hack_suspect/

UK watchdog looking into Facebook face-tech row

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/ico_speaks_to_facebook_on_facial_recognition_tech/

Andrew Crossley, the man/lawyer behind file-sharer-botherers ACS:Law, has been declared bankrupt

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/acslaw_bankrupt/

Jurgen Whitehouse, IT services boss at Ofcom, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for defrauding the telecoms regulator out of more than half-a-million quid

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Jurisprudence

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/ofcom_fraud_prison/

Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry?

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/disk_troika_face_consumer_hdd_decline/

Hackers jailbreak iOS 5 in under 24 hours – Thanks to the work of lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, iPhone jailbreaking is exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/07/ios_five_jailbroken/

US-based companies would be required to report data breaches that threaten consumer privacy and could face stiff penalties for concealing them

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/data_breach_bill/

RSA finally comes clean: SecurID is compromised – RSA Security will replace almost every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the company’s systems being hacked in March

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/06/rsa-finally-comes-clean-securid-is-compromised.ars

Nintendo came in and delivered a tight hour of content, and once again set the world of gaming on its ear

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/hands-on-with-the-wii-u-its-here-its-amazing-its-smart.ars

Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency

Posted: 2011/06/09 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

Bitcoin offers the anonymity of cash and the ease of a credit card—and it does so without any centralized authority

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-currency.ars