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Utah Gets a Cybersecurity Rude Awakening: 181,000 Medical Records Hacked
With cybersecurity the way that it is, data breaches are constantly rolling news and when it comes to cultures such as Anonymous and hactivist groups like LulzSec it was the amount of data taken or the number of lives touched that made the appeal. That’s why, when a data breach in Utah exposed health claims ...
SOPA and PROTECTIP Grumble in the Grave: Let’s Salt and Burn the Bones
It looks like in an almost zombie film action, SOPA and PROTECTIP may be lurching back from the dead—and like all good zombies, it’s out for brains: storage and cloud will be the first on the plate. We’ve seen a long and winding path for legislation such as this and as the MPAA and RIAA ...
The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Google Glasses: 5 Possible Innovations
By now, almost everyone watching Google—and the Internet—will be aware of the first prototype for the search giant’s sci-fi project X augmented reality glasses. They’ve changed somewhat from our first expectations (a bit less covering and more VISOR-like) but Project Glass continues to hold all the elements that are necessary to make them a good ...
Massive Credit Card Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers
Monday, Atlanta-based Global Payments disclosed that hackers accessed their systems and stole credit and debit card account information for almost 1.5 million customers. Although spokespeople form their outfit have been claiming the event has been “contained” others see this as a shakeup for the financial security sector. News is coming out from USA Today and ...
Bitcoin Draws the Attention of British Traders
Bitcoin is making the news again after British traders have gotten wind of the speculative potential of the currency and began to try their hand at buying into it like any other commodity market. The news comes via Reuters in an article on Business Insider and outlines a few of the ways the financial elite ...
Tomorrow: Anonymous Threatens to Blackout the Internet on March 31st
From the Internet’s heart, Anonymous stabs at thee. As we all know the hacktivist collective Anonymous released a threat to darken the Internet on March 31st by attacking the Domain Name Service root servers, according to a post on Pastebin from February. Further agitation from various sources on the Internet shows that at least the ...
Big Things Planned for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5
May 2012 will see the release of a new version of the Kinect software for Windows and this week Microsoft’s Craig Eisler published a sneak peek into what we can expect from this update. Looking at the array of SDK options, the functionality will be formidable: four new languages for speech recognition, included capability to ...
Fresh Back from the Dead Kelihos Botnet Returned to the Grave (Again)
With the opportunity and profit that can be had from running a fraud or spam botnet, it’s really hard to put these things down—even shooting them in the head, like a traditional movie zombie, no longer works. Over the past six months a highly networked task group of multiple security firms worked together to infiltrate ...
Microsoft Disrupts Major ZeuS Botnet Infrastructure
Last Friday saw a months-long Microsoft-led operation come to fruition with the closure of the ZeuS and SpyEye Trojan botnet ending with the coordinated seizure of command-and-control servers across the United States. This makes the third action that Microsoft has prepped that attacked major world botnets and spam organizations and delivered a crushing blow to ...
US Military Members Had More than 15,600 Accounts on MegaUpload
Megaupload proved to be an astoundingly useful resource for many people and fell quickly when they caught up in a feud with the big media industry in the form of the MPAA and RIAA. The picture painted by the entertainment industry is that Megaupload was a fraud site existing primarily to move illegal copies of ...