Posts Tagged ‘News’

BlackBerry 10 Pushed With an Eye Toward Developers

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RIM's renewed push for developers is basically an attempt to get them onboard with the upcoming BlackBerry 10. - Research In Motions BlackBerry DevCon Europe conference, which started Feb. 7 in Amsterdam, placed third-party developers front and center. Highlighting what he called RIMs “commitment to our development community,” RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told the developer audience gathered for his Feb. 7 key...

FDIC Guidance Clarification

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Thank you to everyone who wrote in on the FDIC FIL 3- 2012 guidance to banks.......

Swedish Government Website Targeted by Hackers (February 4, 2012)

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Hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Swedish government's main website.......

Manning to Face All Charges in Court Martial (February 3, 2012)

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The commander of the US Army Military District of Washington has announced that Pfc.......

Commerce Dept’s Economic Development Administration Suffers Cyber Attack (February 2 & 3, 2012)

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The computer network of US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) has been hit with what appears to be a virus, forcing EDA to disable email and Internet access until an investigation determines the cause and scope of the problem.......

BT Junkie Takes Itself Offline Voluntarily (February 6, 2012)

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BT Junkie, a torrent search engine that is unaffiliated with BitTorrent, has voluntarily shuttered its website, ostensibly over concerns that it may be the target of law enforcement action similar to that which forced the shutdown of Megaupload.......

Film Company Includes Owners of Unsecured WiFi Networks in Filesharing Lawsuit (February 6, 2012)

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A California company has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from more than 50 named and unnamed Massachusetts individuals for participating in illegal filesharing.......

New Hampshire Legislature Passes Open Data Standard Bill (February 6, 2012)

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Both houses of the New Hampshire state legislature have passed HB 418, which "requires state agencies to consider open source software when acquiring software and promotes the use of open data formats by state agencies.......

Google and Facebook Remove Offensive Content in India (February 6, 2012)

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Facebook and Google say they have removed content deemed "offensive" by Indian government officials.......

ISC-CERT Warns of Brute Force SSH Attack Threat for SCADA Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)

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The Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ISC-CERT) has issued a warning to utilities that certain supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems may be vulnerable to brute-force attacks.......