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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
WikiLeaks Reopens Channel For Credit Card Donations, Dares Visa And MasterCard To Block Them Again
— Assange speaking a press conference regarding the financial blockade against the site in late 2011. — After 18 months of having its funding nearly completely cut off by a payment industry blockade …
Jul 18, 2012, 11:00 AM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs With 3D-Printed And Laser-Cut Keys
— Two 3D-printed and one laser-cut copy of restricted handcuff keys. (Click to enlarge.) — The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects.
Jul 16, 2012, 9:20 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Here's How Often AT&T, Sprint, And Verizon Each Hand Over Users' Data To The Government
— When it comes to modern law enforcement surveillance, no one watches the wiretappers. — The vast majority of law enforcement's demands that phone carriers and Internet services hand over users' private data …
Jul 9, 2012, 2:30 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Researchers Say iPhone Users Hit With App Store's First Ever Spam-Sending App
— A screenshot from Find and Call's website. — Just as antivirus researchers congratulated Apple for keeping the iPhone free of nasty apps five full years after its release, spammers seem to have finally tarnished that spotless record.
Jul 5, 2012, 12:50 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Wickr Lets Your iPhone Send Both Encrypted And Self-Destructing Messages
— Encryption is meant to keep your messages secret from any third-party eavesdropper-what security pros call a “man-in-the-middle” attack. But what about that more common problem, the man-on-the-other-end?
Jun 28, 2012, 6:40 AM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
FTC Hits Wyndham Hotels With Lawsuit Over Three Hacker Breaches In Two Years
— Wyndham Hotel Group just took the fourth blow in a quadruple whammy: First it was hit with three digital breaches over two years that affected more than half a million customers.
Jun 26, 2012, 10:55 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
U.S. Government Requests For Google Users' Private Data Jump 37% In One Year
— Updated with a correction from Google below. — The American government's appetite for Google's data is growing. — In the second half of 2011, Google received 6,321 requests that it hand over its users' private data …
Jun 17, 2012, 11:25 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers
— Mikko Hypponen enjoys his position as the chief research officer at the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure. He has no intention of leaving. But lately, he's been spending a lot of time looking at job openings.
Jun 16, 2012, 10:10 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Google Starts Showing Users Alerts For Accounts Hacked By “State-Sponsored Attackers”
— Here's a message from Google some Gmail users can expect to see in the near future, and that the rest of us hope we never will: “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.”
Jun 5, 2012, 4:10 PM–
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Reddit's Alexis Ohanian And Activists Aim To Build A ‘Bat-Signal For The Internet’
— Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act in January. (Credit: Alec Perkins) — The “blackout” of Web sites to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in January …
May 25, 2012, 3:25 PM–
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).