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RSA Blames “Nation State” and Tag-Team Hackers for Ides of March SecurID Breach
In March, RSA suffered a cyberattack that compromised their SecurID platform and led to a recall and increased paranoia among their defense contractor customers. Yesterday at a press conference an RSA spokesman mentioned that they believe it was the act of two separate hacking outfits both of whom could be connected to a nation state. ...
Blizzard to Experiment with Real-Money for Gold Scheme in WoW via Tradable In-Game Pet
Most of the virtual items for sale in Blizzard’s überpopular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft bind directly to users’ accounts—meaning that once bought they cannot be traded to other players. Recently, Blizzard announced a new vanity pet that players can purchase that can be traded between accounts: the Guardian Cub ...
Governor of California Crushes Bill Banning Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
Gov. Jerry Brown of California has vetoed a bill that would have required police officers to obtain a warrant before searching arrestees’ smartphones. The bill would have worked to prevent the practice of law enforcement of opening up a person’s cell phone, downloading all the contents, perusing photos, videos, texts, e-mails, and other private effects ...
NYSE Unaffected by Anonymous Attack; Sabu of LulzSec ‘We still have Sun e-mails’
October 4, we ran an article about how the hacktivist collective Anonymous began rumbling that it would proceed with an attack against the New York Stock Exchange in an act of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) movement. That attack took the form of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) yesterday at the appointed ...
The Evolving Place of Pastebin.com in Social Discourse, From LulzSec to Occupy Wall Street
The previous decade showed us how the Internet and social media change the face of protests. In fact, a leaderless collective of interested parties emerged from forums calling themselves Anonymous to form a surprisingly large mass protest against Scientology. We’ve seen social media provide the foundation for citizen journalists to document the going’s on of ...
Bitcoin7 Hacked, Funds Recovery Requires Sensitive Personal Information
On Oct 5, 2011 the Bitcoin7 exchange website posted a message to its users that it had been subject to a hacking intrusion that compromised their wallets and their user database. “While our investigation is still going, evidence reveals that the attacks originated from Russia and Eastern Europe,” wrote the proprietors of Bitcoin7. “The attack ...
Western Digital TV Live Set-Top Box Brightens Your Living Room with Spotify
The living room cloud is dominated primarily by one device that has usurped the much vaunted place of the Victorian fireplace in the middle class home: the television. As a result, a large number of devices have risen in an ecosystem to take advantage of this position in the home and its place of honor ...
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Restaurant Keynote Speech Reveals the Power of Social Enterprise
Marc Benioff has managed to spit in Oracle’s eye using the very Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software his company develops and its paradigm to do so. John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, sat in and broadcast the entire keynote on SiliconANGLE.tv. After having his Oracle OpenWorld 2011 keynote speech essentially cancelled by Oracle, Benioff swiftly took ...
David Flynn of Fusion-io Discusses Atomic Multiblock Native Write
Fusion-io, already becoming famous for their highly successful Flash storage products, is adding a new technology that will permit a new type of write primitive called an “atomic multiblock native write.” Most importantly the multiblock write will be enabled and native to hardware and this will help resolve a problem with writes that often work ...
Jailbreak Utility for iPhone Redsn0w Ahead of the Game with iOS 5.0 GM for iPhone 4S, iPad, and iPod
It looks like just on the edge of unveiling the new iPhone, hackers across the Internet have already gotten on the ball and prepared a jailbreak for the device that allows tethering. The jailbreak program is named Redsn0w (updated version 0.9.9b2) but it does require that the smartphone be tethered to a computer running the ...