Archive for 2011/08/08

Many security people fear speaking out publicly against Anonymous and LulzSec

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

Researchers: Anonymous and LulzSec need to focus their chaos

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/researchers-anonymous-and-lulzsec-need-to-focus-their-chaos.ars

Social media’s role in riots probed – “I don’t remember SMS and phone calls being blamed for riots years ago,” said Matt Brian, mobile editor at The Next Web, a tech news website

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2d31b99e-c1e1-11e0-bc71-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1UTNH3Nk8

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Were Twitter or BlackBerrys Used to Fan Flames of London’s Riots?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087337,00.html

Researchers have discovered what they say is a design flaw in Android that could be used by criminals to steal data via phishing or by advertisers to bring annoying pop-up ads to phones

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Network Security

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20089123-245/android-could-allow-mobile-ad-or-phishing-pop-ups/

Flying-iPad smuggling operation busted. The idea was apparently to capitalize on the different taxation laws in the two locales and make a mint selling the devices cheaper on the mainland side

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20089468-1/flying-ipad-smuggling-operation-busted/

Archos’ upcoming Android “Honeycomb” 3.2 tablet will pack a 250GB hard disk drive

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20089241-64/250gb-android-tablet-coming-interested/

10-year-old hacker finds zero-day flaw in games

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20089152-12/10-year-old-hacker-finds-zero-day-flaw-in-games/

HBO and Time Warner say the cloud is good for the film industry

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution, The Cloud

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20089408-261/why-time-warner-rules-the-cloud/

Spotify valued at $1.1 billion after U.S. launch

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/spotify-valued-at-11-billion-after-us-launch/54364

Sony, Panasonic, and Samsung move to create 3D glasses standard

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/sony-panasonic-and-samsung-move-to-create-3d-glasses-standard/26814

Rojadirecta Argues That The Justice Department Is Making Up Laws; Has No Legal Basis To Forfeit Its Domain

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110806/00013915420/rojadirecta-argues-that-justice-department-is-making-up-laws-has-no-legal-basis-to-forfeit-its-domain.shtml

When lightning strikes Microsoft’s and Amazon’s clouds

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Network Security

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/bpos_amazon_power_outages/

Google is fighting to hide an email in which it seems to admit to knowingly infringing the Java patents

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Google, Litigation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/google_oracle_java/

Creative Commons images and you: a quick guide for image users

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/creative-commons-images-and-you.ars

Mass file-sharing lawsuits have been filed all across the United States in recent months, almost exclusively targeting BitTorrent users

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, Stats / reports

http://torrentfreak.com/200000-bittorrent-users-sued-in-the-united-states-110808/

Provider Orange UK offers weekly film download every Thursday “at no cost”

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/08/08/orange-uk-offers-free-films-to-home-broadband-users-and-revamps-mobile-deals.html

Internet Service Providers hijacking their customers search engine traffic in order to earn a crafty profit

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/08/06/new-research-warns-some-isps-hijacking-search-engine-traffic-for-profit.html

BlackBerry Ping NIMBY in the UK. RIM now working with authorities to enable them to intercept PING messages

Posted: 2011/08/08 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

37% of British youth uses a Blackberry. The PING messaging system is encrypted and UK authorities cannot access the data without a court order

Dutch language article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2584867/pingen-belangrijk-bij-rellen-londen.html