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Submission + - AT&T Call Centers Sold Mobile Customer Information To Criminals (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Employees at three call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines sold hundreds of thousands of AT&T customer records, including names and Social Security numbers, to criminals who attempted to use the customer information to unlock stolen mobile phones, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said. AT&T has agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty, which is the largest related to a data breach and customer privacy in the FCC's history.

Submission + - Ebola virus found to be defective zombie virus (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by kallen3
kallen3 writes: The Center for Disease Control has announced that the Ebola virus originated as a zombie virus but has mutated to it's present form. What is a concern to many epidemiologists though is that there are some indications that not all strains of the zombie virus has mutated into a form of Ebola. Dr. Moreau of the CDC says that there are indications in local folklore that there are zombies wandering the back country in those countries currently affected by the Ebola strain of the zombie virus. The current concern that Dr. Moreau has is that those infected by the Ebola strain being brought back to their home country may spread the Zombie virus if the Ebola strain mutates back to it's original form.

Submission + - Taiwan looks to strengthen U.S. cyber relations to block Chinese threats (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Taiwan is planning to enter into a tighter cybersecurity partnership with the United States in a bid to tackle the rising amount of online attacks heading its way from China [http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/30/us-taiwan-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0MQ11V20150330]. Authorities in Taiwan have announced their interest in seeking involvement in the international anti-hacking drill set up by the U.S., ‘Cyber Storm’. The exercise takes place every two years, with the last test taking place in 2013 in 11 countries. China has officially denied any attempt at hacking in Taiwan. However security experts in the region suspect that the country is a major target due to long-engrained hostility from Beijing and tense cross-strait relations. Taiwan was attacked more times than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region during the first half of 2014. The nation is often described as a testing ground for Chinese hacking attempts.

Submission + - China's Foreign Ministry: China did not attack Github, we are the major victims. (fmprc.gov.cn)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At the Regular Press Conference on March 30, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying responded on the charge of DDoS attack over Github. She said "It is quite odd that every time a website in the US or any other country is under attack, there will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it. I'd like to remind you that China is one of the major victims of cyber attacks. We have been underlining that China hopes to work with the international community to speed up the making of international rules and jointly keep the cyber space peaceful, secure, open and cooperative. It is hoped that all parties can work in concert to address hacker attacks in a positive and constructive manner."
She obviously said nothing.

Comment isn't it obvious? (Score 1) 3

by Lead Butthead (#49358675) Attached to: Internet Explorer website wont work with Windows

It's a government project. They'll need to solicit bids from at least six distinct vendors, gets cancelled and reinstated at least twice due to budgetary constraints, gets monumentally fscked up by the contractor in China because they can't read English and only write in Engrish, and gets into massive cost overrun because their accounting do their maths extremely well, tied up in committees for months over if the wording in the contract required a period instead of comma, then finally deployed, and discover it's still broken.

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