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Teenage hacking gang busted in Bavaria
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:41 AM (Reads: 204)
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Source: Manufacturing and Logistics IT
German authorities crack down on illegal online activities
Hackers can make money by stealing identities and personal information. Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have welcomed the news that German authorities have apprehended 11 people suspected of running a hacking ring.
According to media reports, police arrested suspects aged between 15 and 22 years old in Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate and confiscated computers for forensic examination.
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PC World Editor to Step Down, Start Own Venture
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:39 AM (Reads: 110)
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Source: Wired (Blog)
PC World editor in chief Harry McCracken has announced his retirement from the venerable computer magazine he heads.
McCracken, who has been with PC World for 14 years, will step down June 2, he wrote in a blog post.
He told Epicenter that his departure has nothing to do with any disagreement with the executives of PC World parent company IDG, unlike last year, when McCracken quit -- and was later rehired -- in a dispute over editorial independence from the magazine's advertising staff.
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Chile government probes major data hack
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:38 AM (Reads: 126)
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Source: USA Today
A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet.
Prosecutor Jose Ignacio Escobar, a specialist in high-tech crime, opened the probe as the government announced plans to step up data protection.
Police chief Jaime Jara said the weekend data leak did not include financial records and was less serious than first thought.
The information accessed by a hacker included identity card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails and academic records.
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BlackBerry challenge to iPhone
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:37 AM (Reads: 154)
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Source: The Independent (UK)
A summer sales war is about to break out between Apple’s iPhone and the BlackBerry, as the two wildly popular mobile phone brands do battle with new, upgraded versions of their internet-enabled devices.
Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, unveiled the BlackBerry Bold yesterday morning, hoping that a host of new video and music features will snare consumers who previously associated the device only with business users.
Wall Street traders sent Research in Motion shares to an all-time high on news of the launch, which showed the company had resolved technical issues earlier than expected, and puts it on course to challenge Apple’s iPhone for consumers’ hearts.
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Virgin Media to raise fibre-network capacity fourfold
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:36 AM (Reads: 108)
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Source: ZDNet (UK)
As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network, but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre.
The trend for online video content and popular bandwidth-heavy applications, such as the BBC's iPlayer, has led to concerns among ISPs that their infrastructure will soon be creaking under the strain.
But now Virgin Media — which, with its 20Mbps service, already offers the fastest broadband speeds in the UK and has a 50Mbps rollout planned for this year — has completed a trial of bandwidth-boosting kit which increased capacity on its long-haul 10G network fourfold.
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Microsoft software gives free tours of space
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:35 AM (Reads: 154)
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Source: Reuters
Any Star Trek fan knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make traveling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on your computer.
The world's largest software maker launched a free software application called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that allows everyone from space novices to astronomy professors to easily explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets.
The WorldWide Telescope stitches together 12 terabytes -- the data equivalent of 2.6 billion pages of text -- of pictures from sources including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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The new rules for buying a Mac
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:34 AM (Reads: 370)
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Source: Computer World
The world has a lot of unwritten rules -- in social etiquette. In baseball. And in buying computers. For years, we have unquestioningly followed numerous unwritten rules when buying a Mac.
Like many customs, these rules were once based on a foundation of facts and reason. But in the past few years, many long-standing Mac truths have been upended. All Macs run on multiple-core Intel processors now. IMacs are no longer hobbled by crippling feature limitations. And speedy external peripherals have drastically lessened the need for add-on cards.
In other words, the old rules no longer apply. If you're planning on buying a new Mac, you need facts about the modern lineup so you can choose the computer that's right for you.
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Facebook asks for $100 million
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:32 AM (Reads: 122)
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Source: Tech Radar
In the space of four years, Facebook has grown from being a Harvard University web project to one of the biggest social-networks in the world. An explosive growth such as this is enough to give any CEO a nosebleed, especially when the cash coming in doesn’t quite cover the amount of servers needed to accommodate so much information.
That’s why, according to Business Week, Facebook has gone cap in hand to venture lenders and asked to borrow a hefty $100 million. That’s not counting the $370 million that the company has already raised in the last year.
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HP has eye on IBM as it discusses EDS acquisition
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:31 AM (Reads: 111)
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Source: Yahoo! News
Having seized the lead in personal computer sales worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Co. is stalking the technology services market for its next conquest.
In what could turn into its biggest deal in six years, HP hopes to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp., which pioneered the concept of running data centers and providing other high-tech help for large companies and government agencies.
Palo Alto-based HP and Plano, Texas-based EDS confirmed Monday that they are in "advanced discussions" about a possible combination without providing additional details.
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Google launches local hosted security service
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:30 AM (Reads: 124)
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Source: ZDNet (Australia)
Google has launched a hosted security service for enterprise customers in Australia, a re-branded version of the Postini service it acquired last year.
The hosted service, now called "Google Web Security for Enterprise", protects corporate Web and e-mail users from viruses, spyware, malicious Web sites, and offers hosted e-mail archiving services.
The service offers a choice of cheap security features. The option of Google Message Filtering (e-mail filtering) is billed at AU$3.65 per user per year, while Google Message Security (scanning of inbound and outbound e-mail plus messaging controls) is charged at AU$14.63 per user per year.
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Fedora 9 - an OS that even the Linux challenged can love
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:13 AM (Reads: 201)
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Source: The Register
Fedora 9, the latest release from the Fedora Project, goes up for download on Tuesday. The ninth release of Fedora ushers in a number of changes aimed at making the venerable distribution a more newbie-friendly desktop, but longtime users needn't fear a great dumbing down; version 9 packs plenty of power user punch as well.
Fedora is a community-driven distribution sponsored by Red Hat and, while Fedora may be best known as a popular server OS, most of the changes in Fedora 9 are aimed at making the system friendlier for desktop users.
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Kaspersky says mobile malware very active in first quarter of 2008
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:12 AM (Reads: 113)
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Source: Secure Computing
Kaspersky’s senior virus analyst has warned of ‘unpleasant news’ from the world of mobile malware in its latest quarterly security trend report.
Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab and author of Malware Evolution: January – March 2008, has revealed that in the first three months of 2008, innovation and quantity of new malicious programs targeting mobile phones have increased.
Most operating systems were targeted; namely Symbian, Windows Mobile, J2ME (Java platform) and the popular iPhone.
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Interview: Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Check Point
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:10 AM (Reads: 94)
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Source: Secure Computing
The serial company founder and SC's CEO of the Year tells Paul Fisher why he knew all along that data-centric security was the future.
We are on the top floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge, [London]. Shlomo Kramer's imposing frame is supported by a sofa in the middle of the living area of the suite, which seemingly meets his approval. He likes the view.
Looking through the windows and out over Hyde Park, Kramer asks if there is much fun to be had there - he is bringing his family over for Passover, he says, and is looking for activities for the kids.
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Dublin businesses vulnerable to IT attacks
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:10 AM (Reads: 87)
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Source: Tech Central (Ireland)
Security improvements have not kept pace with the increase in the number of wireless connections in Dublin's business districts. While the number of wireless connections has risen by 25% since 2006, there has only been a two percentage point increase in the number of secure wireless connections.
This situation came to light in the latest wireless vulnerability assessment by professional services firm Deloitte. The firm pinpointed 1,107 wireless connections in 2008, compared with 884 found in 2006. Of these 594 (54%) were found to be insecure. In 2006, 497 (56%) networks were found to be insecure.
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Is it OK to hack if you are a good guy?
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:08 AM (Reads: 119)
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Source: Network World
I have a problem with hackers. I don’t think they are heroes. I don’t think they should be rewarded for their illegal activities. It bugs me that ex-hackers make big bucks trading on their notoriety with book deals and public speaking engagements.
Mind you I know lots of people that were hackers at an early age and got caught. They were usually scared onto the straight and narrow by a knock on the door by the FBI, or a call from the site administrators of one of their targets. No big deal. Sometimes the experience is the first time they have had to figure out the difference between right and wrong. Usually they were hacking for fun, not profit. Long time readers know that I criticize the victims of these forays as much as the purps. NASA servers vulnerable? Fix ‘em. Website vulnerable to SQL insertion? Do something about it! These guys are skilled and inquisitive and I don’t condemn them, especially if they experience remorse and mend their ways.
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Check your rootkits at the door with rkhunter
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:06 AM (Reads: 152)
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Source: Tech Republic
So it’s usually op ed here but I ran across a story the other day about a new proof of concept rootkit (Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits) and thought maybe I’d highlight an application I generally use to inspect systems for rootkits. The application is rkhunter. This tool claims to keep you 99.9% free from rootkits. By running such tests as:
* MD5 hash compare
* Rootkit default file search
* Inconsistent binary file permissions
* LKM and KLD suspected string search
* Hidden file search
* Optional scan within plaintext and binary files
And even thought it’s .1 % inaccurate (as the developers claim) it’s still a smart move to install this application on any machine that lives on line, especially production-level machines.
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April Sees Thirty-Five Percent Increase in Web Threats
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:05 AM (Reads: 105)
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Source: Govtech
In its Global Threat Report issued today, ScanSafe reported a 35 percent increase in Web-based malware in April. The increase was driven by two separate series of attacks -- an expanding iframe injection on middle tier sites that comprise the so-called "Long Tail" of the Web -- as well as a much higher profile SQL injection attack that affected thousands of Web sites -- including many well known sites such as the United Nations.
"What we saw in April was a one-two punch," says Mary Landesman, senior security researcher, ScanSafe. "In addition to the much publicized SQL injection attack, Web surfers were impacted by the mushrooming of an attack on mid-tier websites. While individually these mid-tier sites may not pack in the visitors, collectively they make up what's often referred to as the Long Tail of the Web. Ongoing investigation by our Security Threat Alert Team indicates this is a large scale attack that is growing exponentially and is not being detected by the majority of Web crawlers."
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Hackers hijack a half-million sites in latest attack
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:04 AM (Reads: 100)
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Source: Computer World
More than half a million Web sites have been compromised in a new round of attacks that hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users' PCs with a variety of malware, a security researcher said today.
"This is an ongoing campaign, with new domains [hosting the malware] popping up even this morning," said Paul Ferguson, a network architect at antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. "The domains are changing constantly."
According to Ferguson, over half a million legitimate Web sites have been hacked by today's mass-scale attack, only the latest in a string that goes back to at least January. All of the sites, he confirmed, are running "phpBB," an open-source message forum manager.
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3 charged in LI with hacking into national restaurant chain
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:03 AM (Reads: 97)
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Source: KVIA.com
Three men were charged today with hacking into a national restaurant chain's computerized cash registers and stealing credit card information from customers.
Federal prosecutors say that eleven Dave & Buster's restaurants at various locations around the United States were hit in the scheme.
The indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court in New York.
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Don't Get Duped by Myanmar Scams
Posted by l33tdawg on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:02 AM (Reads: 111)
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Source: Eye Witness News
The Better Business Bureau is warning people about scams that target your generosity.
Fake charities are pretending to collect donations for the victims of the cyclone that hit Myanmar last week. Almost 32,000 people were killed and nearly 30,000 are still missing.
BBB officials say they usually see scam such as this anytime after a major disaster. Mid-South BBB President Randy Hutchison says after Hurricane Katrina, the FBI identified 4,000 websites asking for donations and about 60% of the sites were from people overseas. Hutchison says the overseas sites were probably bogus.
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