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Criminal Charges For iPad Data Theft

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The US District Attorney for New Jersey has announced that criminal charges will be brought against attackers who stole information from iPad users on the AT&T network. The U.S. Department of Justice will be filing the claims, and the case will be seen in the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey. The [...]

Cyberwar Still More Science Fiction Than Fact

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The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has just published a major report about cyber-security, which shows that a true cyber-war can never take place. The report was undertaken by two British professors. The report does state that cyber-espionage and other online attacks will be crucial to future wars. However the report makes it [...]

Google Adds Spam Protection By Allowing Senders To Sign E-Mails

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Google App customers will be able to take advantage of new Google technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The technology will guarantee that the sender is genuine. DKIM has been employed by Google since 2008 to help Gmail users to confirm that messages from eBay and PayPal are genuine. This has helped Gmail users steer [...]

Stolen ITunes Accounts Are Sold On Chinese Auction Site

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Recently a store in China has begun selling stolen Apple accounts. The accounts are still active and are attached to active credit cards. They’re claiming that it allows the customer up to $200 on the iTunes store for less than $30. Roughly 50,000 accounts are being sold at taobao.com, prices ranging from 1 to 200 [...]

Bank Of America Breaks Relationship With Wikileaks

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Bank of America has chosen not to continue its business relationship with Wikileaks, joining several large businesses such as Master Card and Visa in their ban. The banking giant, the largest in the world, claims that Wikileaks has perhaps engaged in activities that do not agree with their internal policies in processing payments, which is [...]

Google Will Not Comply With Blumenthal’s Fishing Request

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On December 17th Google defied the State Attorney General’s request for information that the company collected on Connecticut residents. Although Google said that they collected the information by accident, their decision to defy the state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, could lead to legal action. The dispute focuses on Blumenthal’s demand on December 10, in which [...]

Airforce Decides To Block Sites That Post Wikileaks Documents

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The US Air Force has decided to stop all of its personnel from looking at any site that could potentially contain any information from Wikileaks. The Airforce has already blocked sites such as the New York Times, Spain’s El Pais, France’s Le Monde, Germany’s Der Spiegel, and the U.K.’s Guardian. Although these are all reputable [...]

Gawker Disaster Is Spilling Over To Other Major Websites

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A great number of Internet patrons are being warned to change their passwords as more is learned about a significant security risk. Many social and gaming sites, such as Twitter have told users to reset their passwords after hackers broke into the gossip site Gawker. Online game World of Warcraft WoW, has asked some of [...]

Gawker Hack Now FBI Investigation

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The Gnosis group hacked into the Gawker website last weekend and compromised the site for more than twenty fours. The Gawker is a media publishing website concentrating on gossips from the media world in collaboration with Jezebel and Gizmodo. Following Monday of the hacking incident the FBI (now investigating the case) called on the CEO [...]

Gawker Media Hacked, Millions Of Passwords Stolen

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Gawker Media, a series of websites was recently hacked. The Gawker Media brand websites Fleshbot, Deadspin, Jatopnik, kotaku, Gawer, Gizmodo, Jezebel, oi9, and Lifehacker have recently had nearly 1.5 million registered usernames and passwords stolen. Some theorize that the hacking was done by 4chan members. This cannot be proven, but it is not out of [...]