63409963
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BigVig209 writes:
The owner of a bus company that shuttles students between college campuses and the Chicago area has been charged in Lake County with Internet harassment stemming from disputes with customers who had complained about his company's services.
Dennis Toeppen, 50, was arrested last month in Champaign after a former customer complained to authorities that Toeppen had posted lewd statements about him and another customer to the online forum Reddit.
57305839
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BigVig209 writes:
Computer programming has long been a hobby of Iraq War veteran Eric Kelly, but it wasn’t until this past weekend at a hacking competition that he realized how good he was.
“It was more of a confirmation: ‘You can do this, buddy,’” said Kelly, who wants to pursue a career in cybersecurity after placing 11th at the Cyber Aces [Illinois] State Championship (held) at Moraine Valley Community College (this past) Saturday.
Saturday’s program was one of seven state championships organized by Cyber Aces, a nonprofit dedicated to discovering and developing talent for the Internet security industry.
57069561
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BigVig209 writes:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois employs white hats so the bottom line won't turn red (from embarrassment). From the article, "The Chicago-based parent of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois has its own small team of hackers who spend their time poking, probing and trying to break into the company's systems, looking for problems before someone else does."
56831525
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BigVig209 writes:
A new study set to be officially released Wednesday found that networks and Internet-connected devices in places such as hospitals, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are under siege and in many cases have been infiltrated without their knowledge.
The study was conducted by Norse, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm, and SANS, a security research institute. In the report, the groups found from September 2012 to October 2013 that 375 healthcare organizations in the U.S. had been compromised, and in many cases are still compromised because they have not yet detected the attacks.
54441393
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BigVig209 writes:
In a follow-up to story submitted by symbolset back on May 4, 2013, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that London-based Datawind it will begin selling its $38 UbiSlate tablet computer in the United States early next year.
"The $38 7-inch touchscreen UbiSlate 7Ci tablet runs on Google's Android 4.0 and features a 1-gigahertz, single-core processor. It has 4 gigabytes of storage with microSD card slots for additional storage. The 7-inch display offers a resolution of 800x480 pixels."
The specs are not the greatest, the fastest, the most powerful, but, for under $50, they're still pretty good, no?
52855811
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BigVig209 writes:
"Intel Has Acquired Kno, Will Push Further Into The Education Content Market With Interactive Textbooks"
TechCrunch is reporting that Intel has purchased e-textbook publisher Kno for an undisclosed sum. (http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/08/intel-has-acquired-kno-to-push-further-into-the-education-market/)
According to a blog post by John Galvin, GM of Intel Education, "The acquisition of Kno boosts Intel’s global digital content library to more than 225,000 higher education and K-12 titles through existing partnerships with 75 educational publishers. Even more, the Kno platform provides administrators and teachers with the tools they need to easily assign, manage and monitor their digital learning content and assessments.
We’re looking forward to combining our expertise with Kno’s rich content so that together, we can help teachers create classroom environments and personalized learning experiences that lead to student success. Check out the Intel Education newsroom for ongoing updates from Intel." (http://blogs.intel.com/csr/2013/11/intel-education-welcomes-kno-to-the-family/)
49731845
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BigVig209 writes:
Spanish newspaper, El Pais, http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2013/08/20/actualidad/1377011520_379395.html (original in Spanish), is reporting that someone hacked into Twitter and stole the user credentials for over 15,000 users. Quoting a story on GigaOm, http://gigaom.com/2013/08/20/islamist-hacker-publishes-access-details-for-thousands-of-twitter-accounts/, the attack may have been made through a third-party application. According to the story in El Pais, the majority of exposed accounts are from users in Turkey.
