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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
After
a hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media that yielded more than one million passwords,
the online media company’s chief technology officer has announced new defense strategies
aimed at placating their users and preventing further
humiliating data breaches.
Herbal Viagra peddlers beware: Google and GoDaddy are coordinating the
establishment of a non-profit organization dedicated to curbing the spread of
illegal online pharmaceutical companies.
UPDATEOhio State University warned those who have had contact with the University that a server containing personally identifiable data was illegally accessed by a third party and may have exposed data on 760,000 people.
UPDATEMcDonald’s has served billions of hamburgers, but thousands of those customers may be regretting their patronage, after the fast food giant acknowledged that contact information for an unknown number of customers was stolen from a third party e-mail marketing firm it uses.
The New York
Times reported that Julian Assange, founder, spokesperson, and editor-in-chief
of Wikileaks, has been granted bail by a British court.
The ruling comes as Assange
and his attorneys continue to fight demands from Swedish prosecutors that he be
extradited to Sweden. Assange remains in detention pending an appeal by the
prosecution which is set to take place within the next 48 hours.
A new study finds that a tool used to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on behalf of whistle blower Web site Wikileaks may, itself, leak the identity of those running the software.
Social networking Web site Facebook has announced that they will begin accepting registrations for the 2011 Hacker Cup, the first annual programming and puzzle solving contest open to software engineers, programmers, puzzle solvers and assorted hackers from around the world.
Perhaps Sarah Palin is the news-world’s equivalent of Fonzie “jumping the shark” – the entertainment industry’s measure of when a show has peaked and, thus, begun an inexorable creative decline.
A recent internal audit at NASA, the U.S. space agency, found significant weakness in the way the agency disposes of IT equipment, including evidence that used hard drives containing sensitive NASA data may have been sold to the public on the secondhand market.
The
Washington Post is reporting that Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin was
arrested sometime last week on suspicion of stealing classified documents from
military networks and attempting to sell them to a foreign agent.
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