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Submission + - Smartphone Users Feel More Secure Than PC Users (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: Many users feel more secure using smartphones to surf the Internet than PCs, and a majority consider the risk of losing personal data higher on computers than on smartphones, according to Kaspersky Lab. 1,600 smartphone users were surveyed in Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. There has been a recent increase in the number of attacks on mobile operating systems like Android and iOS, and experts expect to see considerably more of these in the future. Despite this, users in Europe, according to the Kaspersky Lab survey, feel more secure accessing the Internet via a mobile device.
Crime

Submission + - Servers Breached at Fortune 100 Company (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group — a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US — has suffered a breach that resulted in password-stealing Trojans being installed on a number of the company's servers. A number of servers were compromised, including the Citrix servers which the employees use to access the company systems from a remote location.

Submission + - Are Video Game Makers Becoming Responsible? (commondreams.org)

Submitted by
musth
musth writes: "With NFL 12, industry acknowledges gameplay depictions of head concussions influence RL behavior of young men — so why not likewise with sexual and violent behavior, one wonders....could it be the millions of dollars in violent video games, ya think?"
Government

Submission + - Utah Repeals Anti-Transparency Law (sltrib.com)

Submitted by oddjob1244
oddjob1244 writes: After enduring two weeks of public fury, Utah lawmakers voted Friday to repeal a bill that would have restricted public access to government records. While Senate President Michael Waddoups accused the media of lobbying on the issue and others blamed the press for biased coverage that turned citizens against them, Sen. Steve Urquhart said bluntly: "We messed up. It is nobody's fault but our's."

Michael Waddoups is indirectly blaming Slashdot from previous media coverage: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/202234/Utah-Works-To-Repeal-Anti-Transparency-Law and http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/1647251/Utah-Governor-Honored-With-Blackhole-Award
Idle

Submission + - Ohio man gets a $16.4 million cable bill (yahoo.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: You may have heard the story about the man living in a 14x60 trailer who got a $12,864 electric bill, or the Corpus Christie man who was billed $7.7 million by his water company, or the Canadian whose cell phone provider hit him up for $85,000...

In this case an Ohio man's attempt to make a payment on his cable bill to Time Warner was rejected, and he learned that the company had calculated his past-due amount at more than $16 million.

Submission + - Indie Freeware Game Release: Sqrxz 2 (pixelprospector.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Insane difficult games are usually challenging and frustrating at the same time. With "Sqrxz 2" comes another crazy Jump'n'Run game which requires mind, reflexes and timing. Enemies may be not only eliminated, but be misused to solve tricky puzzles. Optically the game resembles a 16-bit style and features marvelous ingame chiptunes. The game is available for Windows, Ubuntu, Amiga OS4, Dreamcast and a couple of other systems."
Firefox

Submission + - Investigating the Performance of Firefox 4 and IE9 (mozillazine.org)

Submitted by theweatherelectric
theweatherelectric writes: Mozilla's Robert O'Callahan has posted an article on his blog in which he investigates the performance differences between Firefox 4 and IE9. He writes, 'As I explained in my last post, Microsoft's PR about "full hardware acceleration" is a myth. But it's true that some graphics benchmarks consistently report better scores for IE9 than for Firefox, so over the last few days I've been looking into that. Below I'll explain the details [of] what I've found about various commonly-cited benchmarks, but the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).'

Submission + - CNN showing doctored Japan earthquake videos (cnn.com)

Submitted by ctdownunder
ctdownunder writes: CNN is showing purposely "enhanced" videos of shaking structures. The digital doctoring is obvious even to the untrained eye; the image is expanded and contracted quickly to simulate earthquake shaking.

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