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Submission + - Massive Gmail phishing attak hits top US officials (cnn.com)
suraj.sun writes: Massive Gmail phishing attack hits top US officials:
Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday.
The account hijackings were a result of stolen passwords, likely by malware installed on victims' computers or through victims' responses to e-mails from malicious hackers posing as trusted sources. That type of hack is known as phishing. Gmail's security systems themselves were not compromised, Google said.
The company believes the phishing attack emanated from Jinan, China. In addition to the U.S. government personnel, other targets included South Korean government officials and federal workers of several other Asian countries, Chinese political activists, military personnel and journalists.
CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/01/technology/gmail_hack/
Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday.
The account hijackings were a result of stolen passwords, likely by malware installed on victims' computers or through victims' responses to e-mails from malicious hackers posing as trusted sources. That type of hack is known as phishing. Gmail's security systems themselves were not compromised, Google said.
The company believes the phishing attack emanated from Jinan, China. In addition to the U.S. government personnel, other targets included South Korean government officials and federal workers of several other Asian countries, Chinese political activists, military personnel and journalists.
CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/01/technology/gmail_hack/
Submission + - Multicellular Organisms Live Deeper than Expected (washingtonpost.com)
Antipater writes: "Despite the prevailing notion that life cannot survive deep underground, scientists have found not just extremophile bacteria but multicellular organisms — nematodes — living more than a mile deep in South African gold mines. Nicknamed "worms from hell", these nematodes open new windows for research into life both on Earth and off."
Submission + - Apple Nixes iPad Giveaways (cnn.com)
KingSkippus writes: According to a story at CNN, Apple has begun enforcing third party promotion guidelines (PDF) that, among other things, restricts organizations from giving away iPads, using the word "free" to describe any Apple products in a prominent manner, or promoting giveaways of iPod Touches in lots of less than 250 and with Apple's explicit approval.
Comment Re:The summary is, of course, wrong. (Score 1) 354
Many flip phones because of their geometry kept the radiating part sufficiently away to be much less a concern, but almsot all smartphones today are unibody designs which means the EMF emitting body and screen is in direct contact with your head.
So THAT'S why the antenna for the iPhone 4 is on the outside. And I thought Steve Jobs was just interested in mind control.
Submission + - North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "A North Korean defector claims that the secretive totalitarian state is nurturing a team of "cyberwarriors," identifying young people with computer skills and sending them abroad to learn the latest hacking techniques, while lavishing priviledges on their families at home to keep them loyal. This could lead to an escalation in tensions, especially given that the U.S. military believes that cyberattacks from foreign countries constitute acts of war."
Submission + - More details of first quantum computer (technologyreview.com)
holy_calamity writes: "Technology Review explains that the the quantum computing system recently bought by Lockheed is actually a specialised co-processor to help a conventional computer with machine learning tasks. D-Wave's system is hard-coded with a particular machine learning algorithm that solves problems using a network of linked superconducting qubits. A coder can use an API to push data to the specialised processor as needed to improve the accuracy of the trained software. Google are using a D-Wave system as a kind of exotic cloud service, having software in Mountain View use the APIs over the internet."
Comment Browsershots (Score 2) 221
Try http://browsershots.org/ It's not going to help with testing functionality, but it'll definitely help with layout.
Comment Computers? (Score 2) 108
The military supposedly recovered a lot of digital information (hard drives, DVDs, flash drives, etc.) over there. I'm wondering how Osama reconciled the use of computers with his anti-Western beliefs (which I assume includes Western technology).
