Archive for 2011/11/16
Occupy Wall Street has tweeted that the 5,554 books comprising the OWS library have been trashed by the NYPD in the raid
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement@OWSLibrary has been tweeting about the eviction and the destruction of their books, documents, and artwork throughout the night.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/occupy_wall_street_library.php
Rugged individualism coupled with greed may account for the widening gulf of the 1 percent, many of whom seem to be without even the slightest pangs of conscience from the suffering of the 99 percent
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / AwarenessThe Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom. For some time now, many have wondered where the power would come from to interrupt the obscene widening gap.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-james-a-forbes-jr/angel-occupy-wall-street_b_1084071.html
Occupy wall street Paris gets raided by police (video)
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, EnforcementPolice pepper spray Occupy Seattle protesters (video)
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, EnforcementOccupy Wall Street: Talk of Throwing Molotov Cocktails at Macy’s; Burning NYC Down
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / AwarenessOccupy Seattle protesters attacked and peppersprayed by police
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / AwarenessMobile workers are giving up almost an hour every working day in sleep and exercise time, thanks to being able to work on the mobile devices which almost half of them had to pay for
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / AwarenessThe figures come from iPass, provider of single-log-on services for remote workers, which gathered the data by surveying 2,300 of its customers about their mobile device use. iPass discovered that, for the first time, iPhones outnumber BlackBerrys in the enterprise, if only ‘cos employees are bringing them into the office themselves, but mobile workers would never give up their smartphones despite the health risks.
Star Wars 3D holo displays becomes a reality
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionRadioactive Particles Are Spreading Across Europe and Nobody Knows Why
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / AwarenessGoogle Music: Everything We Know
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business ModelsAnother Romanian hacker arrested for breaching NASA servers
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, EnforcementAdele’s album downloaded one million times in Europe
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsFacebook says it knows who is behind the coordinated spam attack resulting in a huge flood of links, videos, and images depicting pornography, acts of violence, self-mutilation, and bestiality on the site
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Cybercrime, Education / Awarenesshttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-identifies-those-behind-coordinated-spam-attack/5411
See also:
Facebook has said that the coordinated spam attack on the social network has now been ‘eliminated’, but says it was a browser flaw, and not its fault
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-eliminates-spam-after-coordinated-attack/63586
Dutch Government Computer Emergency Response Team: Highly likely that lives were lost as a result of the DigiNotar hack
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessDutch language news article:
http://www.security.nl/artikel/39210/1/Govcert%3A_mogelijk_doden_door_DigiNotarhack.html
Previously: http://vrritti.com/?s=diginotar
Determining the Geolocation of Systems Infected with Malware
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / AwarenessRIPE sues the Dutch Police, The Dutch Team High Tech Crime and The Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office for ordering freeze of block of IP ranges
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, LitigationDutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/108577/ripe-sleept-om-voor-rechter-om-ip-blokkade.html
Previously:
RIPE NCC Blocks Registration in RIPE Registry Following Order from Dutch Police
http://vrritti.com/2011/11/10/ripe-ncc-blocks-registration-in-ripe-registry-following-order-from-dutch-police/
Dutch Public Prosecutor Lodewijk van Zwieten: Dutch police was allowed to hack systems of botnet victims. Says that police should also be allowed to hack straight into PCs of cybercriminals in foreign countries
Posted: 2011/11/16 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, EnforcementDutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/78099/om-hacken-botnetslachtoffers-was-toegestaan.html
Previously:
Hacking (back) by Dutch law enforcement is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights
http://vrritti.com/2011/11/08/hacking-back-by-dutch-law-enforcement-is-in-violation-of-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/
