Zer01's mobile offer: Too good to be true? Imagine downloading a two-hour HD movie in three minutes to you cell phone, then plugging the phone into your TV to watch the film. Make unlimited phone calls, surf online as much as you like and send unlimited text messaging for $70 a month, no contract. That's the pitch, but is it too good to be true? Read more...
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IT exec who sabotaged organ donation records sentenced
The IT director of a nonprofit organ procurement center for more than 200 hospitals in Texas was sentenced last week to two years in prison for intentionally deleting numerous organ donation records and other data after being fired from her job.
Danielle Duann, 51 was also sentenced to three years of supervised release upon completion of her term and ordered to pay more thanb $94,000 in restitution to her former employer, LifeGift Organ Donation Center. Duann in April had pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer.
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Adobe doles out bug-filled PDF Reader to users
Adobe delivers an out-of-date version of Reader to users who download the popular application from its Web site, a security company warned today.
The edition Adobe currently offers includes at least 14 security vulnerabilities that have been patched by the company in the last two months.
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iPhone 3GS Limited To 384kbps UpstreamNew video-centric phone doesn't support HSUPA
10:29AM Monday Jul 20 2009 by Karl Bode
Our friend and wireless networking guru Glenn Fleishman offers up an interesting read over at MacWorld, exploring some of the bandwidth constraints inherent in the new iPhone 3GS. While the 3GS seems ready to handle AT&T's planned upgrades to 7.2 Mbps downstream HSPA, interestingly, it doesn't appear able to handle AT&T's upgrades to HSUPA technology, which boosted uspstream wireless bandwidth on the AT&T network to between 500kbps and 800kbps. It's interesting the 3GS only supports UMTS, topping out at 384 kbps, given the phone's primary function is to upload video -- but maybe that will be a selling point of next year's inevitable model.
Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web
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A year after Terry Childs case, privileged user problem grows
One year after former network administrator Terry Childs made national headlines for locking up...
Just yesterday, Lesmany Nunez, a former computer support technician at Quantum Technology Partners (QTP) in Miami, was sentenced to a year in jail for illegally using his administrator account and password to shut down the company's servers from his home computer. Nunez also changed the passwords of all the IT systems administrators at the company and deleted certain files that would have made data restoration from backup tapes easier. His actions resulted in more than $30,000 in damages to QTP.
Numerous similar cases, including ones involving Fannie Mae and Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. have been reported over the past few months, each one causing considerable damage and disruption to the companies involved.
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McAfee getting more aggressive on cloud-based security
McAfee Monday said it intends to expand its security-as-a-service offerings in recognition that...
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Microsoft opens 20,000 lines of Linux
Mary Jo Foley: Pigs do fly. Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree.
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Don't Bother Calling
... I did what I'm guessing is what a lot of you would have done - I got the Pomona court's phone number from the L. A. Superior Court website and I called it.
Just in case you don't believe what I'm about to tell you next, here's the phone number: (909) 620-3006. The phone rang. A recorded voice answered.
This is what it said: "You have reached the Los Angeles Superior Court East District Pomona Court office. Please do not leave a message as messages are not retrievable on this line. Thank you and have a nice day."
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26% of Chinese would-be criminals prefer hacking
Published by jumper under China internet, poll
A recent online poll asked Chinese netizens: “Given a 100,000RMB/month salary, what criminal job would you prefer?” – the largest percentage of respondents chose “Freelance Hacker” over Human Trafficker, Assassin, Drug Dealer, Gambler, Gang Leader, Spy and Robber.
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Korea Held a Cyber War, But Nobody Came
July 20, 2009 by ADMIN · Comment
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Last week’s DDoS attacks against South Korean and US web sites have now gone through the whole media hype cycle.
Initial excitement and headlines have given way to the security guru’s who tell us that:
1) This was an amateurish attack using old (therefore un-sexy) malware. (See Ariel Silverstone’s blog)
2) There is not a shred of evidence that North Korea had anything to do with it. (See Alex Eckelberry’s blog)
3) The attacks were really wimpy. Only 35 Mbps of floods. Yawn. (See Jose Nazario’s blog)
Bruce Schneier chimed in on the events in a Minnesota Public Radio column. He says
If this is what an international cyberattack looks like, it hardly seems worth worrying about at all.
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US the origin of 16 per cent of spam
Sophos' spam trend report shows a change in the distribution of spam sources worldwide in the second quarter of 2009 more…
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Inflight WiFi Netiquette Rules For The Savvy Traveler
hothardware.com — We've heard of crazy recommendations and pointless surveys, but man, this is just world-class comedy here. . A recent survey commissioned by 3M found that four in five business travelers admitted that they wanted inflight Wi-Fi, so they sought travel expert Chris McGinnis to type out the following "manners list" to follow while surfing at 30k feet. More…
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