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Submission + - Stratfor Hacked, 200GB Of Emails, Credit Cards Sto (zerohedge.com)

Submitted by Frankie70
Frankie70 writes: A few hours ago, hacking collective Anonymous disclosed that not only has it hacked the Stratfor website (since confirmed by Friedman himself), but has also obtained the full client list of over 4000 individuals and corporations, including their credit cards (which supposedly have been used to make $1 million in "donations"), as well as over 200 GB of email correspondence.
Google

Submission + - Google Maps to charge for API usage (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by RdeCourtney
RdeCourtney writes: The BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15523050 is reporting that from 1 January 2012, Google will charge for the Google Maps API service when more than the limit of 25,000 map "hits" are made in a day.

Google is rumoured to be charging $4 per 1,000 views in excess of the limit.

Google maintains the high limit of 25,000 free hits before charging "will only affect 0.35% of users".
Security

Submission + - Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Oryn
Oryn writes: Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser.

The vulnerability resides in versions 1.0 and earlier of TLS, or transport layer security, the successor to the secure sockets layer technology that serves as the internet's foundation of trust. Although versions 1.1 and 1.2 of TLS aren't susceptible, they remain almost entirely unsupported in browsers and websites alike, making encrypted transactions on PayPal, GMail, and just about every other website vulnerable to eavesdropping by hackers who are able to control the connection between the end user and the website he's visiting.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Linux Kernel 3.0-rc5 In Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 (muktware.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Ubuntu team has today announced the release and availability of Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 11.10.

The alpha comes with Firefox 5 and Linux kernel 3.0-rc5. Thundirbird, the Mozilla's mail client, has replaced Evolution as the default mail client.
IOS

Submission + - German Government Warns of Critical iOS Flaws (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Germany's IT security agency the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) warns of what it calls 'new vulnerabilities' in Apple's mobile operating system iOS.

German iDevice owners are being warned to steer clear of PDF files and web sites from untrusted sources.
Patents

Submission + - Amazon 'One-Click' Too Obvious For EU Patent (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "The European Patent Office has again rejected Amazon's patent application for its 'one-click' ordering system, saying the use of cookies in Amazon's system was too obvious. 'In view of the indexing function of cookies, the skilled person would have realized that any sensitive data traditionally requiring a login could be accessed by cookies,' according to the EPO ruling. 'The obvious trade-off between the two processes, namely security vs. simplicity, cannot establish an inventive technical contribution.'"
KDE

Submission + - KDE Ships July Updates (kde.org)

Submitted by
jrepin
jrepin writes: "KDE 4.6.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.6 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.6.4 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come."
America Online

Submission + - AOL buys the Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by thebian
thebian writes: AOL, the aging internet company that survives on selling unneeded dial-up connections, is buying the Huffington Post for $350 million after a whirlwind romance. Arianna Huffington's bubbly account of the merger that was consummated at the Superbowl is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/huffington-post-aol_b_819373.html.

Submission + - Wikipedia Global Outage (wikimedia.org)

Submitted by gnujoshua
gnujoshua writes: The Wikimedia Tech Blog has a post explaining why many users are unable to reach Wikimedia sites due to DNA resolution failure. The article states,

Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries.

However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally. This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.Wikimedia Tech Blog.

Comment Re:Post ideas here. (Score 1) 427

by SilentGhost (#31022312) Attached to: USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes

Why should our tax dollars pay for some clerk to spend 5 seconds per page of a 100 page document to flip every image, when it's the $500/hour attorney who screwed things up and who should refile, at his or her own expense?

there is a batch processing. and it's not lawyer's fault that USPTO exists in a stone age.

Comment Re:Andy Oram also edited... (Score 1) 81

by SilentGhost (#28598627) Attached to: Beautiful Security
Neat idea that needs to be advertised! Not every one enjoys being tricked into support of charities. I, for one, think that Beautiful Code was very poorly edited/organised and written. The only real ideas about beautiful code were Matsumoto's. And they certainly don't warrant either spending money on a book, nor supporting AI.
Google

Submission + - Gmail down worldwide

Submitted by
Firmafest
Firmafest writes: "For the past hour, Gmail has been down as reported by number of users . Google has issued a small statement claiming that it only affects small subset of their users. I've become used to the stability of Gmail, but what happens when you urgently need a piece of your data and the service is down? Is this the price you pay for free, good email?"
Security

Submission + - VIP Stalkers Likely Suffer Serious Mental Illness

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "A study of 8,000 people stalking members of the royal family from 1988 to 2003 shows that the majority of VIP stalkers suffer from serious psychotic illnesses. "We didn't expect such high rates of psychosis. It was very surprising to us," says Paul Mullen, a forensic psychiatrist at Monash University. Around 3000 of the files covered incidences that were judged to be pranks, or committed by people accidentally or while they were drunk but when Mullen's team examined a sample of the remaining 5000 people judged to be true stalkers about 80% had a serious psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, delusions and hallucinations,. The finding contrasts sharply with people who stalk non-famous people who tend to be rejected lovers, who while they may be depressed and socially inept, don't usually suffer psychosis. Researchers are currently investigating ways to identify which stalkers are likely to pose a threat. "[Stalkers] who are fixated on a cause, and have a highly personalized quest for 'justice', often delusional in nature, are the ones most likely to breach security, and to be carrying weapons," says David James, a forensic psychiatrist at the North London Forensic Service."

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