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Submission + - News Corp hacked PPV rival to enable illegal free streaming on THOIC (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: A unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation allegedly cracked the smartcard codes of ONdigital in a bid to undermine the company's success, according to claims aired on BBC's Panorama programme.

After NDS, a software company owned by News Corp, allegedly cracked the system, the access codes appeared on a pirate website known as The House of Ill Compute (THOIC) where users could use them for illegally accessing free digital television. On BBC Panorama last night, THOIC operator Lee Gibling said he had received over £60,000 a year from Ray Adams, NDS' head of security, for the work.

ONdigital, owned by Granada and Carlton, part of ITV, later went out of business amid mass counterfeiting. This cleared the pay-TV field and left Sky as the key service...
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft censors The Pirate Bay links on Windows Live Messenger (theregister.co.uk)

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RemyBR
RemyBR writes: "Microsoft has confirmed that users of its instant messaging app will not be able to send each other links to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, citing malware fears.
"We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints. Pirate Bay URLs were flagged by one or more of these and were consequently blocked," Redmond told The Register in an emailed statement."
Security

Submission + - Iran blamed for major cyberattack on BBC (techworld.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Iran is privately being blamed for a major cyberattack on the BBC earlier this month that blocked access to its popular Persian TV service and disrupted the Corporation’s IT using denial-of-service.

The multi-pronged March 2 attack took down much of the BBC’s email, overloaded its telephone switchboard with automatic phone calls, and blocked a satellite feed for the BBC Persian station. BBC servers were also on the end of a DDoS.

In an unprecedented tactic, the BBC has trailed a speech to be given this week to the Royal Television Society in which Director General Mark Thompson will mention the attacks in some detail while stopping short of formally naming Iran as the perpetrator.
Medicine

Submission + - 3D-nanoprinting speed record set by Vienna University (bbc.co.uk)

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Ogi_UnixNut
Ogi_UnixNut writes: "A new world speed record for the fastest 3D-printed nano-objects has been claimed by researchers in Austria. The team was able to create sculptures as small as a grain of sand in a fraction of the time than had previously been required, and to demonstrate this process the group created a model of a Formula 1 racing car 0.285mm (0.011in) in length in just over four minutes.

The process itself (two-photon lithography) is well known to the science community, but until now it has been too slow, typically taking days to weeks to generate large 3D structures. This technology offers the prospect of 500x to 1000x speed improvement, and the team are researching applications in 3D printing of bio-compatible matter for use in the medical industry."

Submission + - Social media analysis used in Thomson Reuters market feeds to aid traders (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Thomson Reuters has made a major upgrade to its market feeds by adding analysis of content from social media sites.

The Machine Readable News service now delivers traders with analytics from 50,000 news sites and four million social networks, in a format promised to be digestible and to highlight the key information.

Analytics include sentiment, relevance and novelty indicators that capture market opinion, for algorithmic trading systems as well as risk management and human decision support processes. Thomson Reuters said the development would help traders to be better informed as they shape their strategies...
Cloud

Submission + - Cloud computing to create 14 million global jobs by 2015 (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Spend on public and private cloud computing services will create 226,000 jobs in the UK by 2015, according to a study from analyst firm IDC.

These would be part of the approximately 14 million jobs that would be created globally during the next four years, the study, 'Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation', commissioned by Microsoft, claimed.

The majority of new jobs will be created in emerging markets, for example in China and India, where the size of the workforce is greater...
Music

Submission + - Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks from Sony (securityweek.com) 1

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: The plot thickens, and Sony once again has found itself in the news surrounding another hacking-related incident. This time around, the breach doesn’t appear to be in regard any lost user data or customer accounts, but instead, some valuable property owned by the record company.

Today, several British news outlets have reported that more than 50,000 music tracks have been illegally accessed and downloaded by hackers, including a large number from the late Michael Jackson.

Sony bought the catalog from Jackson’s estate for $250 Million in 2010, giving the company distribution rights to the unreleased music.

The attack reportedly occurred shortly after details of the massive PlayStation Network breach last April, but details were only revealed this past weekend.
Network

Submission + - UK Broadband launches first 4G network in London (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: Wireless company UK Broadband has switched on a wholesale 4G network in the London Borough of Southwark, offering high-speed services for the public sector and big corporations, as well as providing backhaul for mobile networks. The network has been built using Huawei’s Time Division Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) solution. TD-LTE is a variant of the LTE wireless standard, developed by China Mobile specifically to meet the growing demand for data capacity.

Unlike Frequency-Division Long-Term Evolution (FD-LTE), which carries two separate signals – one for uploading and one for downloading – TD-LTE uses a single channel, and dynamically assigns bandwidth to each connection based on user requirements. This means that download capacity is maximised at all times. However, most of the UK's mobile operators will be bidding for FD-LTE in the forthcoming 4G spectrum auction, because they are concerned about preserving their voice market as well as building a data market.

The company's CEO explained that the job of UK Broadband would be to provide a solid platform for operators to drop onto when capacity on their own networks becomes constrained.

Submission + - Hospital Pays $1M Penalty For Loss Of Patient Data (techweb.com)

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Batblue
Batblue writes: "All security professionals fear the consequences of an online hack or of failing a compliance audit. But last week, a Massachusetts hospital was forced to pay $1 million in penalties for what might have been an honest mistake.

According to a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services (PDF), Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay a $1 million "resolution" for the loss of records containing the personal health information of 192 individuals. The penalty follows a lawsuit filed by two HIV-positive patients whose records were among those lost.

The stiff penalty is the result of an incident that occurred two years ago, when a hospital billing manager took the paper records out of the hospital offices in order to work on them from home. The billing manager mistakenly left the records behind on an MBTA subway train, where they were lost and never recovered."

Submission + - SSDs cause crisis for digital forensics (techworld.com) 5

Submitted by rifles only
rifles only writes: Firmware built into many solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, Australian researchers have discovered.

They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker.

Comment Why didn't they do this before (Score 1) 2

by E5Rebel (#35313676) Attached to: LSE calls crisis meeting with market data vendors
Big implemenation, complex processes, why weren't they having meetings with their customers daily after teh switch over? Why weren't they running the new platform and the old one in tandem to have a fall back in case of problems. No doubt there will be fault on all sides, but one thing is certain. London's reputation as a financial powerhosue has taken another beating.
Microsoft

Submission + - LSE calls crisis meeting with market data vendors (computerworlduk.com) 2

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange has called an urgent meeting next week with price data vendors, in an attempt to solve the serious market stock price irregularities appearing on traders’ screens since the exchange launched its new trading software.

The meeting, taking place on Tuesday, will involve many of the major vendors that have been displaying incorrect and blank stock prices. They are expected to address the problems and potential short and long-term solutions...
Microsoft

Submission + - LSE hauled offline after major data problem (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold
DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange stopped trading this morning immediately after the opening auction, which experienced a major technical glitch.

The news comes at the end of the second week of trading on the exchange’s new Millennium trading system. Over the last fortnight, anger has been growing after large vendors that supply price data to the market continually experienced significant technical difficulties, including displaying entirely inaccurate and blank prices.

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