Archive for 2011/10/07

Kaspersky Lab: Dutch Socialist Party is right. The Dutch government should establish a complaint center and a “fire brigade” with help of businesses such as Symantec, McAfee and Kaspersky. Victims of cybercrime should be obligated to notify authorities immediately

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Right now, there’s no obligation to notify authorities regarding security breaches such as the one at DigiNotar, Kaspersky states. That’s why the Dutch government was not able to act immediately.

A complaint center for cyber attacks, should be established by the Dutch government together with Kaspersky Lab and other businesses such as Symantec and McAfee. These companies can then go and “extinguish the fire”.

Kaspersky also noted that victims of cyber attacks are now calling on Kaspersky to help out “multiple times per month.” Those attacks are never centrally registered (by government authorities) nor are they made public.

Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2635219/computerinbraken-verplicht-melden.html

See also:

DigiNotar aftermath: Dutch Socialist Party making plea for dedicated “fire brigade” dealing with cyber emergencies
http://vrritti.com/2011/10/05/diginotar-aftermath-dutch-socialist-party-making-plea-for-dedicated-fire-brigade-dealing-with-cyber-emergencies/

And:
http://vrritti.com/?s=diginotar 

IMF advisor says we face a Worldwide Banking Meltdown

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

For the Congress of the United States to pass legislation to force the Chinese to do what is arguably very difficult to do I think is wrong, it’s dangerous

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

You could start a trade war

http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/obama-targets-china-on-trade-cautious-on-currency-bill-101157.html

See also:

The Chinese give their products a 30 percent discount in the U.S. and make our exports cost 30 percent more in other countries.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/06/our-china-curreny-bill-will-defend-americas-core-interests/

and:

But the blame doesn’t belong to America, even though we are talking about American companies who outsource jobs and make massive profit for a select few. That can’t be. The real fault is with China, a country that does not roll over and acquiesce to up-valuing their currency, those fiends.
http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2011/10/blame_china_for_american_faults

Twelve to 15 million families have received foreclosure notices. Seven to 10 million more are unemployed. Median household income has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade while the poverty rate is at a 17-year high

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

The number of homeless in New York City rose to an all-time high last year—higher even than during the Great Depression—with a record 113,000 men, women, and children, many of them comprising whole families, retreating night after night to municipal shelters.

http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152640/occupy_wall_street%3A_%27we%27re_mad_as_hell_and_we%27re_not_going_to_take_it_anymore%27/

Beyond Wall Street: ‘Occupy’ protests go global

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/07/business/wall-street-protest-global/

Michael Moore joins protesters at Occupy Wall Street, will donate proceeds from latest book to cause

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

He also said he’s working with Occupy Wall Street to bring wi-fi to the park and other demonstration sites nationwide

Occupied Wall Street, Seen From Abroad

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/occupied-wall-street-seen-from-abroad.html

‘Our Berlin Wall Is Breaking’: Taking on Wall Street’s Dictatorship

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://www.alternet.org/vision/152631/%27our_berlin_wall_is_breaking%27%3A_taking_on_wall_street%27s_dictatorship/

Occupy San Diego: What Is Our One Demand? Social and Economic justice

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://obrag.org/?p=46810&cpage=1

Are Fingerprint Scanners Really Necessary On School Buses?

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5847498/are-fingerprint-scanners-really-necessary-on-school-buses

The SpyEye banking trojan has acquired the ability to reroute one-time passwords sent to victims’ cellphones, a measure that bypasses protections more and more financial institutions are adopting

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/06/banking_trojan_steals_sms/

The internet’s authoritative source for time-zone data has been shut down after the volunteer programmer who maintained it was sued for copyright infringement by a maker of astrology software

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/

Those of you who’d like to read Facebook pages written in a foreign language now have a way to translate posts and comments into your native tongue

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20116697-93/facebook-launches-its-own-universal-translator/

Judge blasts personal-injury lawyer for running P2P “shake down”

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/judge-blasts-personal-injury-lawyer-for-running-p2p-shake-down.ars

Oracle has agreed to pay $199.5 million in what is the largest False Claims Act settlement the General Services Administration has ever seen

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/oracle-paying-1995-million-for-bad-sales-practices/60040

As a tribute to Steve Jobs, TNT will air the nerd cult-classic Pirates of Silicon Valley twice tonight

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5847347/tnt-to-air-pirates-of-silicon-valley-tonight

See also:

Pirates of Silicon Valley Is Your Swashbuckling Deal of the Day
http://gizmodo.com/5847399/pirates-of-silicon-valley-is-your-swashbuckling-deal-of-the-day

RapidShare Fights for “The Cloud” in Washington

Posted: 2011/10/07 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

But what exactly is a rogue site? Judges will often base their verdicts merely on descriptions of entertainment industry groups such as the RIAA and the MPAA. According to RapidShare, one of the oldest file-hosting services, this is a problem.

Speaking with TorrentFreak, RapidShare general counsel Daniel Raimer confirmed that this vagueness is one of the main reasons why they hired lobbying firms to represent their interests in Washington. RapidShare has been frequently labeled a piracy haven and a rogue site by the entertainment industry, but Raimer said this is not justified.

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-fights-for-the-cloud-in-washington-111006/