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Fraudulent Google Certificate Put Iranian Users At Risk for Two Months
Recently, an Iranian user uncovered a man-in-the-middle attack occurring with some of Google’s own security certificates for domains such as *.google.com. As it appears, some Iranian ISP may be involved in silently intercepting communications by Iranian citizens over the Internet by supplying a broken security certificate to them for securely accessing Google’s properties. The worst ...
Mt. Gox Warns Bitcoin Popularity Attracting Increased Phishing Attacks
In a recent e-mail broadcast, Mt. Gox—the premier Bitcoin exchange struck by a hack that nearly devastated the entire market in June—the exchange administrators warn of the rising tide of phishing attacks directed at users. As the Bitcoin market gains popularity, and maintains a real value, scammers who want to take advantage of the inattention ...
Bitcoin Delivers Confidence for Online Casinos
Amid the Bitcoin community, gambling happens to be one of the first of the vices that most users stumble across. In fact, the prevalence of pyramid and Ponzi schemes plying for people to throw their bitcoins into them are quite common—although most of them are entirely in good fun as they openly announce exactly what ...
UK Police Continue Pursuit of Anonymous with Another Arrest in Hartlepool
Thursday, U.K. police charged yet another suspect in connection with the Anonymous led denial-of-service attacks (DDOS). A 22-year-old student, Peter David Gibson, of Hartlepool, was charged under the Criminal Law Act of 1977. He has been bailed out and expects to see his first court date on Sept 7. Gibson has been charged with conspiracy ...
East Coast Cell Phone Carriers Brace Themselves for Hurricane Irene
Natural disasters have a two-fold effect on infrastructure—and this is especially the case for wireless carriers—first there’s the actual damage caused to fiber, wire, and transmitter towers inflicted by the disaster itself and second there’s the sudden spike in usage by the population. Right now, Hurricane Irene is sailing its merry havoc towards the East ...
Here Stands Steve Jobs: Apple’s Once and Future CEO
By now, the ripples of Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as the CEO of Apple will have subsided and the cold realization will set in amid fan and computer aficionado alike—it’s the end of an epoch. Apple Inc. saw a meteoric rise to power under the benevolent ministrations of Jobs and it could be argued ...
Tradehill Brightens the Bitcoin Market with E-Wallet Beta
Everyone involved in the Bitcoin market wants it to become something more than it currently is—something of an obscure cryptocurrency that’s popular mostly among geeks, although it’s recently gotten some notice in more mainstream arenas such as National Public Radio. As a result, exchanges and Internet trading houses have become the central metric for following ...
Monday’s MP3tunes Court Decision Breathes Life into the Musical Cloud
An interesting legal decision Monday takes some weight off the hard drives of the still-infantile music cloud industry. A federal judge has ruled that the MP3tunes cloud music service doesn’t violate copyright infringement statues when they serve only one MP3 file to multiple customers who happen to own the exact same track—rather than having to ...
Defense Contractor Vanguard Breached by AntiSec, Hacker Group Leaks 1GB Sensitive Data
Working under the hacktivist banner of AntiSec, yet another defense contractor has been struck by hackers who released over a gigabyte of sensitive information. The contractor hit, Vangaurd Defense Industries, just happens to have a connection to InfraGard, an FBI affiliated program struck by LulzSec, through its senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia. The group ...
ExchB Announces Bitcoins for Cash Deposit at Wells Fargo and Chase Banks
Exchange Bitcoins Inc., or ExchB, has made its current claim to fame by being the first United States-based Bitcoin exchange. Headquartered in Redwood City, California was founded in May 2011 by David Sterry and offers a wide variety of services designed to inspire confidence in its stability and capabilities. In fact, their press materials suggest ...