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Submission + - UK govt gets really serious about open source (computerworlduk.com)

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E5Rebel
E5Rebel writes: "The move to Open Source is being driven both from the prime minsiter's office, and from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You will hear the Prime Minister talking about Open Government quite a bit over the next few weeks. Open Government consciously includes Open Source as well as Open Standards and Open Data, and this is being driven directly from the top of the Coalition Government. Good news."
Microsoft

Submission + - Borsa Italiana halts trading after data glitch (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: Borsa Italiana, the Milan trading venue owned by the London Stock Exchange, has halted trading after problems on its price data feeds.

An investigation is ongoing into the problem, which this morning was described by Borsa Italiana as “a technical issue on the price information systems”.

Borsa Italiana runs on the TradElect system, based on Microsoft .Net and written in C#, recently dumped by the LSE in favour of Millennium Exchange, written in C++ and based on Novell SUSE Linux servers. The LSE has also been experiencing price data feed problems on its own replacement system, but these issues are thought to be unrelated.
Facebook

Submission + - Lawyers Using Facebook Research for Jury Selection (wsj.com) 2

Submitted by unassimilatible
unassimilatible writes: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that trial lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook to research jurors in real-time during the voir dire process. Armando Villalobos, the district attorney of Cameron County, Brownsville, Texas, last year equipped his prosecutors with iPads to scan the Web during jury selection. But what of the jurors who have their privacy settings restricted to "friends only?" Mr. Villalobos has thought of a potential workaround: granting members of the jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network in exchange for temporarily "friending" his office. Faustian bargain, or another way to get out of jury duty?
Iphone

Submission + - iPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning (cio.com.au)

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swandives
swandives writes: "Chinese workers who suffered chemical poisoning after being exposed to n-hexane on an iPhone production line are still experiencing health problems, even though Apple reports "all affected workers have been treated successfully" in its most recent progress report on its suppliers. n-hexane is a chemical cleaning agent that was used at one of its supplier's factories in Suzhou, China."
Oracle

Submission + - Oracle's open source identity reborn at ForgeRock (internetnews.com)

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darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: "Oracle trashed a lot of former Sun technologies — not the least of which is Sun's open source identity platform which included OpenSSO and OpenDS. Now open source startup ForgeRock has taken those castoffs and created a business that has now been running successfully for year.

"My personal goal here is to prove that you can have an open source business that is profitable," Simon Phipps former chief open source officer and Sun and now chief strategy officer at ForgeRock said. "Having principles and having profit are not mutually exclusive."

"
Novell

Submission + - LSE price errors ‘emerged at Linux launch' (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: Within the first 20 seconds of the London Stock Exchange’s new matching engine going live on Monday, price data vendors began displaying incorrect prices, blank prices and wrong trading volumes, according to Computerworld UK sources.

Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Netbuilder are among the largest data vendors, providing share prices to traders, that have been displaying pricing problems on some stocks throughout the week. Even the LSE’s own data vendor, ProQuote, experienced problems.

Concerns are being raised that there could be mistakenly setup connections or incorrect software interfaces at some of the large data vendors. Alternatively, there may be a data caching issue at the LSE that means data going out is not properly synchronised between different systems.
Businesses

Submission + - Nokia Plan B investors give up after 36 hours (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes: A group of shareholders who pledged to stand for election to the company’s board of directors in an attempt to reverse the phone maker’s recent shift in strategy have admitted defeat after failing to attract enough institutional support.

The shareholders, who all claimed to be individuals who had in the past worked in various positions at or with Nokia, posted an open letter yesterday calling for support in their bid. According to the letter, they fear that orientating the company’s offerings around partnership with Microsoft and the Windows Phone 7 platform is a mistake that will destroy Nokia’s reputation for innovation and technical superiority.
Security

Submission + - Hacked and now vandalized, HBGary pulls out of RSA (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: The California security company that is at the center of a controversy over a plan to discredit WikiLeaks and its supporters abruptly pulled itself out of the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, citing security concerns. The company's subsidiary, HBGary Federal, also canceled a talk it had planned to give on the Internet activist group, Anonymous. It was news of this talk that riled Anonymous and precipitated the controversy last week.

HBGary has been under fire for several days now after its Web sites, corporate email system and Twitter accounts were hacked, and details of a company business proposal to discredit WikiLeaks were posted to the Internet. The attack was apparently launched by Anonymous in response to HBGary Federal's CEO Aaron Barr's talk, which had been slated for Monday morning. Barr said he had discovered the identities of many of Anonymous's leaders, and had planned to discuss his investigation in a talk at the BSides San Francisco conference, which runs in tandem with RSA.

"I was receiving death threats," Barr said in an interview Tuesday. "There was lots of talk that was being made of in the Anonymous IRC channels of harassing us at our booth and sending people to heckle [HBGary speakers at the conference]."
News

Submission + - JP Morgan email: Google Madoff and you'll see risk (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: JP Morgan Chase staff warned one of the bank's chief risk officers in series of emails that Bernard Madoff, the jailed broker who ran a Ponzi scheme, was performing suspicious transactions, according to information released in a law suit.

In a $6.4 billion action by the trustee attempting to recover money for Madoff's victims, JP Morgan's email archive has been opened up and numerous messages have been published...
Networking

Submission + - Vodafone slams Egypt's Mubarak for text ‘hij (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: Vodafone has accused Egypt’s embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, of effectively hijacking its network to send propaganda.

The British mobile phone giant, which has a large customer base in Egypt, said Mubarak had forced it to switch off its network as protests began last week.

Mubarak then insisted Vodafone switch on the network, and sent out reams of text...

Comment Re:article omits very important point. (Score 2) 98

by E5Rebel (#35066464) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Was 'Under Major Cyberattack' During Linux Switch
No, the London Stock Exchange and the UK police are the ones who have clamped down on the info. They believe the LSE was under cyber attack and this occured during the shift from the .Net platform to the new LInux platform. The London Stock Exchange issued a set of contradictory statements at the time of the attack and about what was going on with migration to the new Linux platform. The LSE said the attack was suspicious and that they had called in the police. Every appropriate police force contacted by ComputerworldUK denied any knowledge of an investigation or of having been contacted by the Exchange. This sort of blanket denial usually only happens if the authorities believe there may be some terrorist aspect to the incident. ConputerworldUK tried to report what was happening and bring people up to speed with the attack and with the delayed move to the Linux-based platform. The story is not FUD, it is incomplete, but that is because answers to CWUK questions are being withheld. Mike Simons, CWUK editor
Microsoft

Submission + - LSE 'under cyberattack' during Linux switch (computerworlduk.com) 1

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange’s new open source trading system may have been hacked last year, according to a report.

The alleged attack came as the LSE began the switch over to the Linux-based systems, according to the dates referred to in the Times newspaper.

The continued threat of cyber attack has resulted in the LSE keeping a close dialogue with British security services, which this year branded cyber attacks as one of the biggest threats to the country.

There were major problems on the exchange on 24 August, when stock prices of five large companies collapsed.

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