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Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government's top information technology provider, said on Saturday that it detected and thwarted "a significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems network one week ago.
"As a result of the swift and deliberate actions taken to protect the network and increase IT security, our systems remain secure," Jennifer Whitlow, a Lockheed spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. "No customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised.""
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Do you feed forward or back?->

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Whispers_in_the_dark
Whispers_in_the_dark writes "An InfoQ article describes the relative benefits of providing both feedback and feedforward criticism. It suggests that in many cases, utilizing feedforward to gather managerial and user input is more productive than feedback as it defuses much of the emotional charge. Additionally, it also encourages future thinking over post mortem analysis which could help shorten the meetings surrounding such events."
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Patents

Eolas to sue Apple, Google and 23 more->

Submitted by vinodis
vinodis writes "Company that won $585M from Microsoft sues Apple, Google

The company that won a patent case against Microsoft in 2003 is now using the same patent to go after 23 other companies, including Apple and Google. The USPTO has upheld the patent several times now, so the case may not be as cut and dry as some other patent complaints."
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Security

Trojan Heralds New Wave of Smart Crimeware-> 1

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes "A sophisticated Trojan designed to empty bank accounts has a new trick up its sleeve: It lies to investigators about where the money is going, InfoWorld reports. Discovered last week, the URLzone Trojan not only rewrites bank pages to keep victims unaware of balance depletions, it allows hackers to pre-set the percentages they want to siphon and uses several sophisticated techniques to spot machines run by investigators and law enforcement. Upon detecting a law enforcement machine, rather than disconnect, the Trojan sends it a bogus request to transfer money to an innocent victim, thereby preventing the criminal's real money mules from being discovered by officials."
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Technology

SPAM: Huge magnet 100,000X stronger than Earth's pull 3

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes "So you want to build a magnet 100,000-times stronger than the pull of the Earth's magnetic field, what do you need? Well, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory this week spent $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand (or about 7 miles total) to help build such a magnet.

The materials, being supplied by Luvata Waterbury and Oxford Superconducting Technology are being used to build what's known as the Toroidal Field Magnets for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in at Cadarache, France. Each Toroidal Field coil will weigh 360 tons.

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Security

Phishers Reel in 10,000 Hotmail Passwords

Submitted by nandemoari
nandemoari writes "Details of a Hotmail security breach emerged early yesterday, and it's suggested that approximately 10,000 accounts could have been compromised. While the exact number of accounts has not yet been confirmed, the breach was likely the result of a phishing campaign — a different kind of hack that uses fake web pages in order to acquire all kinds of sensitive information, from login data and passwords (such as in this case) to credit card and social security numbers. Microsoft is working on the matter, and in the meantime they recommend all Hotmail users should change their passwords immediately."
The Internet

Bloggers Face $11K Fines on Concealed Endorsements->

Submitted by nandemoari
nandemoari writes "Bloggers could face fines of $11,000 for failing to mention free samples and other payments they receive from advertisers. In theory, the rules could even affect people writing on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, though officials indicate they are unlikely to be targeted. The rules have been issued by the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, which says it is merely clarifying existing principles for the Internet age. The relevant guidelines had not previously been updated since 1980. In explaining the changes, the FTC said "the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.""
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It's funny. Laugh.

Fans Come Together to Complete Star Wars Uncut-> 1

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes "Star Wars Uncut has taken a novel approach to remaking Star Wars IV: A New Hope. You merely sign up for a 15 second clip, film it and submit it. The trailer is now complete and I will suspect you might enjoy the high quality (and low quality) of some of the already accepted scenes. 251 scenes remain in need of claiming with 688 claimed and 291 finished. Do your part to remake one of the greatest movies by filming fifteen seconds of yourself and your friends!"
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