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Submission + - Ubuntu Servers HACKED! (ubuntu.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @08:46AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."

Submission + - Social Networking For The Digitally Unhinged 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20, 2007 @11:49AM

An anonymous reader writes: The social networking site Hakspace originally billed as a myspace for hackers and the digital underground in general has just launched version 2.0 of their social networking backend — now twinned and incorporating news from the somewhat infamous Whitedust.net (which now publishes Hakspace blogs on their front page, without the moderation expected of Web 2.0 sites) the sites are apparently based on an interesting manifesto of 'free publishing'. From the manifesto; "We believe in the sharing and publication of information; all information. That is the beginning and the end of the Whitedust agenda, there is no mystery, no corporate backing or capitalist master plan, no anarchistic undertone of mayhem or militancy. From this point on we will not indulge in juvenile destructive squabbling that plagues the web nor pander to the greed and envy of others intent on trying to control us." The manifesto goes on to say "Information is a pure, simple concept. Our agenda's limits shall not be dictated by either the 'corporate establishment' — the information security industry, or by the self-glorifying militant elements that dwell on its outskirts, the teenage miscreants who pool at the bottom of this digital barrel... We will publish what we want, when we want." Is this the beginning of web 3.0?

Submission + - Nigerian students browse porn on OLPC

Submitted by

jmanforever

on Friday July 20, 2007 @11:29AM

jmanforever writes: "Tag this one "noduh"

"Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet..."

"Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,"

Story at: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idU SL1966647020070720"

Details and Rumors of iPhone Restrictions Emerging 441

Posted by kdawson on Thursday June 14, 2007 @11:18AM from the still-don't-know-how-much-a-month dept.

We're getting indications of the ways the iPhone will be sold (or not sold) and restricted by Apple and AT&T. Reader thefickler writes, "An anonymous AT&T store manager has told blorge.com that users will get their WiFi when they sign a contract locking them into a data plan and EDGE. Kiss your dreams of WiFi reliance goodbye." And our own CmdrTaco found an article up on AppleInsider reporting that the iPhone will not be sold through established business channels — forcing Cingular business customers to stand in line for their goodies, as individuals, at Apple stores. An AT&T Business Division rep told one customer, "There is no ETA on the [ending of the] sale ban to business."

Submission + - Daylight Saving Time

Submitted by

lilbudda

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @02:30PM

lilbudda writes: "Given the new Daylight Saving time in the US, how are you preparing your servers and users for the change?"

Feed HD DVD: No Copycats Allowed (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday March 01, 2007 @02:12PM

SourceForge complies with a DMCA notice to remove open-source software designed to help you rip HD DVDs. But was it really infringing copyright? In 27B Stroke 6.

Submission + - eBay hacker keeps busting through site's back door

Submitted by pacopico on Friday February 23, 2007 @03:14PM

pacopico writes: A hacker specializing in eBay cracks has once again managed to masquerade as a company official on the site's message boards, according to this story on The Register. A company spokesman denies that "Vladuz's" repeated assaults on eBay point to a larger problem with the site's security. Of course, eBay two days ago claimed to have found a way to block Vladuz altogether, only to see him pop up again. Is eBay Vladuz the online version of the Exxon Valdez?

Submission + - Alleged spammer tries to take Spamhaus.org, foiled

Submitted by norml on Friday February 23, 2007 @08:49AM

norml writes: Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but failed on a technicality.

Sadly, the latest development is that the US Federal Court in Illinois has granted e360's motion to enter its judgment against Spamhaus in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, allowing the seizure from Tucows, which maintains offices there for one of its products.

This would be bad news. However, Spamhaus hasn't been sitting around idly waiting to be crushed by the U.S. legal system. When Tucows was served, e360 had the nasty shock of discovering that Tucows was no longer the registrar for Spamhaus. Spamhaus.org has now been registered through Gandi in France. We're pretty sure that the French aren't about to hand over a UK company's domain registration due to a U.S. judgment.

The Spamhaus guys can be found to be going "neener, neener, neener!" in news:news.admin.net-abuse.email in response to e360's posting there.

http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.las so?ref=3 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006 102700261694 http://www.e360insight.com/news.php

Submission + - DVD-VR format reverse engineered

Submitted by

pixelbeat

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @11:24AM

pixelbeat writes: "This is the first open source program for extracting the individual programs from a DVD-VR format disc (used by DVD recorders including DVD camcorders)."

Submission + - New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior

Submitted by

Ant

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @10:37AM

Ant writes: "The New York Times (should not require a log in) says there are several psychological factors that lead to online disinhibition: the anonymity of a Web pseudonym; invisibility to others; the time lag between sending an e-mail message and getting feedback; the exaggerated sense of self from being alone; and the lack of any online authority figure. Dr. Suler notes that disinhibition can be either benign — when a shy person feels free to open up online — or toxic, as in flaming. The emerging field of social neuroscience, the study of what goes on in the brains and bodies of two interacting people, offers clues into the neural mechanics behind flaming... Seen on Blue's News."

Submission + - When IT security gets physical

Submitted by ancientribe on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:59PM

ancientribe writes: A social engineering firm is forced to actually steal the laptop of a technology-savvy suspected employee-gone-bad to investigate his actions for a large corporate client, and things get physical — literally, as they wrestle over the machine, according to this column in Dark Reading. Steve Stasiukonis, vice president and founder of Secure Network Technologies, recounts the sting operation that led to a scuffle, as well as getting the goods on the culprit.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117 531&WT.svl=tease3_2

Submission + - Vista retail sales low compared to XP launch

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Friday February 16, 2007 @12:14PM

PetManimal writes: "A comparison of first-week retail sales of Vista compared to first-week sales of XP back in 2001 found that Vista sales were 60% lower. Steve Ballmer has admitted that earlier sales forecasts were "overly aggressive," but at least there is some good news for Microsoft: early Office 2007 sales were very strong compared to the early sales of Office 2003, despite almost no advertising or marketing until the retail launch at the end of January."

Submission + - Bionic eye could restore vision

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:24AM

MattSparkes writes: "A new bionic eye could restore vision to the profoundly blind. A prototype was tested on six patients and "within a few weeks all could detect light, identify objects and even perceive motion again. For one patient, this was the first time he had seen anything in half a century." The user wears a pair of glasses that contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a cellphone-sized computer in the wearer's pocket. This computer processes the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic receiver implanted in the wearer's head."

Harvard Physicists Make Light Dance 109

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08, 2007 @12:52PM from the not-so-fast dept.

tetrikphimvin and others clued us to the latest work by Harvard's Lene Vestergaard Hau, being published today in the journal Nature. The NYTimes has a good layman's overview of how Hau's team encoded a light beam in a clump of atoms and later reconstituted it elsewhere. The Harvard Gazette offers additional details, a photo, and video links.

Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years 1046

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 05, 2007 @12:32PM from the running-to-standstill dept.

destinyland writes "Friday police arrested 64-year-old Keith Henson. In 2000 after picketing a Scientology complex, he was arrested as a threat because of a joke Usenet post about "Tom Cruise Missiles." He fled to Canada after being found guilty of "interfering" with a religion, and spent the next 6 years living as a fugitive. Besides being a digital encryption and free speech advocate, he's one of the original Burr-Brown/Texas Instruments researchers and a co-founder of the Space Colony movement."

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