Computer News
Famed Hacking Contest Gets Facelift
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 09:16 PMdarkreading.com — ‘Pwn2Own’ will up the ante with more prolonged contest, fewer targets, more payout for first-, second-, third-place winners -- plus an extra Google bounty for cracking Chrome See the complete story here.
Linux root exploit due to memory access
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:04 PMh-online.com — Linus Torvalds released a Linux kernel update last week which fixes a flaw in the access control to memory. Shortly afterwards, exploits appeared making it possible to gain root privileges using this error. See the complete story here.
Computer games fans less likely to develop Alzheimer's
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:04 PMmirror.co.uk — READING, writing and computer game fans are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s, a study has suggested. See the complete story here.
Tablet computer ownership nearly doubled during the holidays
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:03 PMtechjournalsouth.com — Did you receive a new tablet computer or an e-reader over the holidays? As Amazon introduced its Kindle Fire tablet, selling it at a slight loss, Barnes & Noble offered the competing Nook, and the iPad remained popular, the way we read and consumer media is changing. See the complete story here.
Senator Grassley's Twitter Account Hacked
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:03 PMpcworld.com — Twitter and federal law enforcement are investigating the hacking of a U.S. Senator's Twitter account Monday afternoon. See the complete story here.
YouTube Tops Four Billion Views Per Day
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:02 PMpcworld.com — Google announced Monday that its dominant video-sharing service has surpassed four billion video views worldwide every day. In addition, users are uploading one hour of video to YouTube every second. See the complete story here.
Polish sites hit in Acta hack attack
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 04:56 PMbbc.co.uk — Online activists have attacked Polish government websites in protest against plans to sign an international copyright treaty. See the complete story here.
Storage sites unnerved by Megaupload action
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 04:55 PMbbc.co.uk — The arrest of Megaupload's founders has led to other file storage sites taking action in an apparent attempt to protect themselves from legal action. See the complete story here.
Google Brings Open Source to the Sky
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 04:54 PMinternetnews.com — One of the very first things that I ever downloaded onto my Android phone was Google Sky. It's fantastic app the lets you just point your phone at a section of the sky to see a map overlay of the stars/constellation above. See the complete story here.
Web-hosting service DreamHost warns users of password hack
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:37 PMnews.cnet.com — That's the word from the Web-hosting service and domain name registrar, which sent an e-mail to customers last night saying that their FTP passwords may have been accessed by hackers. See the complete story here.
Linux Is Reaching New Heights in Enterprises, Study Finds
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:32 PMpcworld.com — Global economic woes may continue to dampen spending forecasts for IT departments around the world, but that isn't stopping large companies from adding more Linux servers to their operations. See the complete story here.
Computer virus invades Japan’s space agency, takes data
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:30 PMgmanetwork.com — Japan’s space agency may have lost potentially sensitive data to a computer virus that infected one of the agency’s terminals earlier this month, Japanese officials have said. See the complete story here.
Crime & Courts - US Inside the lavish life of Megaupload founder, Dotco...
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:29 PMfoxnews.com — Kim Schmitz legally changed his surname to Dotcom at some point over the last decade, a homage to the technology that made him a millionaire and that has now landed him in a New Zealand jail. See the complete story here.
Mac Malware Threats Increase
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:26 PMpcworld.com — Security firm F-Secure has spotted 58 separate threats targeting OS X in the past nine months. See the complete story here.
Are You Contributing To A DDoS Attack? Researcher Says You Might Be
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:25 PMdarkreading.com — Anonymous is using some creative new methods to generate its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on federal agencies and entertainment companies, according to an analysis by researchers at Sophos. See the complete story here.
Anonymous hacks DOJ, RIAA, MPAA and Universal Music websites
Submitted Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 07:17 PMzdnet.com — Anonymous is going after the music and entertainment industries as well as the Department of Justice in retaliation to several arrests made on Thursday morning. See the complete story here.
Apple Lets You Make Your Own Books, Announces iBooks Author App
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 09:07 AMnews.yahoo.com — Apple announced a new iBooks Author App on Thursday that makes creating an Apple ebook a drag-and-drop process. See the complete story here.
Queens man charged in Federal Reserve software theft
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 09:01 AMcbsnews.com — A computer programmer who worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is facing charges he stole computer code valued at nearly $10 million and used for his own computer training business. See the complete story here.
Zappos CEO Says 24M Customer Accounts Have Been Hacked
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:50 AMhardocp.com — A message today on the Zappos.com official blog is warning its 24+ million customers that the company has been hacked and that names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of your credit card number have been accessed by hackers. See the complete story here.
New Chinese malware attacks Department of Defense
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:49 AMventurebeat.com — Access cards are often used in governmental departments for both physical access as well as access to protected information. As AlienVault explains in a blog post, cyber criminals will always try to be in step with our security measures, even if they are physical ones like a card. Kind of like, if we built it, they will hack. In this case, the Chinese cyber criminals have found a way to bypass a physical card, by attacking the Windows operating system in the card reader. See the complete story here.
Expect Windows 8 in October
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:47 AMpcworld.com — Microsoft is aiming for October to release the commercial version of Windows 8, based on comments attributed to a Microsoft spokeswoman at CES. See the complete story here.
Web Gang Operating in the Open
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:45 AMnytimes.com — Five men believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks — and pocketing several million dollars from online schemes — are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to investigators at Facebook and several independent computer security researchers. See the complete story here.
Researchers Find Way to Sniff Corporate Email Via BlackBerry PlayBook
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:44 AMthreatpost.com — Researchers and attackers have had no shortage of mobile platforms and devices to sink their teeth into in recent years, thanks to the explosion of iOS and Android phones and tablets in the consumer and enterprise markets. Now, the spotlight is slowly beginning to turn in the direction of RIM, and specifically its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. See the complete story here.
Facebook chat phishing attack impersonates Facebook security team
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:43 AMcomputerworld.com — A new phishing attack that's spreading through Facebook chat modifies hijacked accounts in order to impersonate the social network's security team. See the complete story here.
Popular live-blogging site says data files were breached
Submitted Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 08:41 AMtechnolog.msnbc.msn.com — CoveritLive, a popular, Web-based live-blogging program used worldwide, said Friday it has discovered that "certain proprietary data files" of its users "were accessed without authorization," but that "no financial account information has been compromised.". See the complete story here.
