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Bitcoin 0.4.0 Will Secure Your Wallet With Native Encrpytion
This major release to the Bitcoin client hit the digital stacks September 23, 2011 and it includes a long-awaited security feature: encrypted wallets. Of late, users of the cryptocurrency have suffered increased attempts by outside parties to get at the wallets of Bitcoin owners (since during the boom there were quite a few Bitcoin millionaires ...
FBI Arrests of Suspected LulzSec, Anonymous Hackers Sweep the U.S.
News and speculation have been all a twitter this morning with the revelation that the FBI has arrested two alleged members of the group LulzSec and the hacktivist collective Anonymous on Thursday morning in Tempe, Arizona and San Francisco, California. Court documents and charges have been filed against other hackers and search warrants are being ...
Is that Bear a Kinect Controller or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Anyone who hasn’t experienced it yet should go to Google Maps, find a local mall with a Build-a-Bear Workshop and go make a bear. Sure, the stuffed little adorables can be a little bit on the expensive side, but it’s an experience worth having and the end product isn’t just a t-shirt. Well, the bear-stuffing ...
Xbox Leads the Personal Cloud to the Living Room with Comcast Cable
Even two years ago, Microsoft may have realized that videogame consoles are a brilliant stalking horse for bringing influence into the living room. With the set-top-box wars heating up, and the fact that videogame consoles often outnumber even VCRs and DVRs in any given home, it’s the perfect place for a corporation to position themselves ...
Bitcoinica Growing Pains Result in Data Errors
Last week, I reported on an emerging trading platform for Bitcoin, Bitcoinica, that presented itself as a Forex service and did so without trading any bitcoins with customers. The Bitcoin service runs in the cloud and has a lot of interesting elements going for it—it even had an excellent week last week trading over ฿160,865.33 ...
Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Shakes Virus Infection
The United States defense contractor community aren’t the only ones suffering under the yolk of cyberattacks—as seen now that Mitsubishi Heavy, Japan’s largest defense contractor, has discovered a multitude of their computers infected with viruses. Mitsubishi Heavy builds submarines, components for nuclear power stations, guided missiles, and rocket engines. The corporation noticed the cyberattack, and ...
Sony Dodges Behind Updated EULA to Avoid Responsibility for Future PSN Security Breaches
In what feels like a turnaround in taking responsibility, Sony has updated their click-wrap End User License Agreement (EULA, or in this case also the Terms of Service orTOS) for people who use the PlayStation Network that will force those agree into arbitration by having them waive their right to file a class action lawsuit ...
U.S., Australia Tie the Knot with Cyber Mutual Defense Treaty
The United States and Australia have been close partners for almost 60 years when it comes to warfare since the day they signed into a mutual defense alliance, which now will be extended to include cyberspace as well. The treaty from 60 years ago, known as the AZNUS military alliance treaty, describes a mutual defense ...
Windows 8 Will Bundle Native Antivirus, Symantec and McAfee Scream in Horror
It’s big news for the Microsoft Windows community that native antivirus is going to come pre-installed for out-of-the-box operating systems. Worldwide, Windows machines account for a significant portion of all machines 0wn3ed by various worms and viruses that generate zombies for botnets; rootkit viruses are on the rise, and even those people who rely on ...
An Ugly Week for Certificate Authorities: DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and ComodoHacker Collide
Certificate Authorities (CAs) make up the backbone of the web of trust for credit card transactions and secure communications between web browsers and web sites. Without this “web of trust” intact, people surfing the web cannot really trust that their credentials, confidential information, and so forth are actually secure when they access as web page. ...