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TiVo Hacked - Exposes Email and Name 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2011, @09:42PM

An anonymous reader writes "On 4/2/2011 at 4:01 PM PST I received an email from TiVo stating that my email address and/or name had been exposed due to a hacker as follows:

TiVo® Service Announcement

Dear TiVo Customer,

Today we were informed by our email service provider that your email address was exposed due to unauthorized access of their system. Our email service provider deploys emails on our behalf to customers who have opted into email-based communications from us.

We were advised by our email service provider that the information that was obtained was limited to first name and/or email addresses only. Your service and any other personally identifiable information were not at risk and remain secure.

Please note, it is possible you may receive spam email messages as a result. We want to urge you to be cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown third parties.

We regret this has taken place and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We take your privacy very seriously, and we will continue to work diligently to protect your personal information.

If you have unsubscribed in the past, there is no need to unsubscribe again. Your preferences will remain in place.

Sincerely,
The TiVo Team"

Comment: Oh Really? (Score 0) 1

by zonezero on Sunday February 20 2011, @01:15PM (#35260692) Attached to: What Fat Animals Tell Us About Human Obesity

A bunch of us have already figured that out and it's called Paleo.

MPEG committee calls for royality-free standard-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2011, @05:46PM

An anonymous reader writes "A press release from a recent meeting of the MPEG standards committee is calling for a royality-free licensed standard for video compression technology

"MPEG has been producing standards that provide industry with the best video compression technologies. In recognition of the growing importance that the Internet plays in the generation and consumption of video content, MPEG intends to develop a new video compression standard in line with the expected usage models of the Internet. The new standard is intended to achieve substantially better compression performance than that offered by MPEG-2 and possibly comparable to that offered by the AVC Baseline Profile. MPEG will issue a call for proposals on video compression technology at the end of its upcoming meeting in March 2011 that is expected to lead to a standard falling under ISO/IEC “Type-1 licensing”, i.e. intended to be “royalty free”.""
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Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 10 2011, @01:57AM

An anonymous reader writes "Three information security consultancies with links to US spy agencies cooked up a dirty tricks campaign late last year to destroy Wikileaks by exploiting its perceived weaknesses, reads a presentation released by the whistleblowers'(TM) organisation that it claimed to be from the conspirators. Consultants at US defence contractors Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and HBGary proposed to lawyers for a desperate Bank of America an alliance that would work to discredit the whistleblowers’ website using a divide and conquer approach. Since the plan was hatched, disgruntled volunteers mentioned in the PDF broke away from Wikileaks, financial institutions withdrew services, Apelbaum was harassed by the US Government and Amazon denied service to Wikileaks' website."
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The anonymous-HBGary story: How it happened-> 0

Submitted by metalcup on Wednesday February 09 2011, @11:37PM

metalcup writes "Ars technica has a wonderful article on how Barr tried to track anonymous, his apparent hubris, and how anonymous 'bitch-slapped' him at the end.
Nate Anderson (the author) doesn't go into the technical details of how the servers for HBGary Federal were compromised, but he pieces together a nice chain of events and conversations between Gary and his programmer (who keeps saying Gary is being stupid), and the rest of the company from the emails and other stuff that anonymous posted on piratebay.

Thought it might interest the crowd here.."
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555 Timer Circuit Design Contest -> 0

Submitted by Bob Cat - NYMPHS on Tuesday February 08 2011, @10:59PM

Bob Cat - NYMPHS writes "Jeri Ellsworth designer of the C64DTV, maker of DIY NMOS transistors, and all-around uber-geek, decided to have a contest to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 555 timer IC. Of course, Google, Digi-Key and many other keepers of the geek flame jumped at the chance to offer thousands of dollars in prizes, and Forrest Mims III is judging, along with Hans Camenzind, the inventor of the 555. Warm up your soldering irons!"
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Security Firm that "Outed" Anoymous Hacked-> 1

Submitted by JumperCable on Monday February 07 2011, @12:08AM

JumperCable writes "Less than 24 hours since the security firm HBGay Federal released a press release claiming to have outed anonymous, hackers have "seized control of the internet security firm's website, defaced its pages, acquired 60,000 company e-mails, deleted backup files, seized Barr's Twitter account, and took down the founder's website rootkit.com. This is according to a daily Kos post from one of the "outed" self proclaimed member of anonymous

Too boot, hackers have also publicly released a 28 page document that the security firm was attempting to sell the government. According to Barret Brown, "The entry on me, for instance, is entirely inaccurate despite the fact that I have not been a clandestine participant since coming out of the closet months ago." The firm is further mocked with a statement by Bernard Keane, that "the situation is rather hilarious. More to the point, it should demonstrate that HBGary Federal is not only incapable of protecting its clients and informing on folks who were among the first to get involved in Tunisia and Egypt — it is incapable of protecting itself."

Disclaimer: I'm NOT involved in this."
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Mozilla improves data corruption.-> 0

Submitted by zonezero on Sunday February 06 2011, @01:34AM

zonezero writes "Mozilla released a new version of Thunderbird now complete with "Several fixes to improve corruption in local copy of IMAP mailboxes." Thank you Mozilla, I was really worried about crappy corruption."
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Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Released-> 0

Submitted by kyle5t on Sunday February 06 2011, @12:52AM

kyle5t writes "eh, let someone else write it. i'm just encouraging you to report on this"
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Girlfriend's Revenge courtesy of Google Images-> 2

Submitted by another similar on Saturday February 05 2011, @07:42PM

another similar writes "This article on HuffPo teaches us that if you happen to have a bad break up with someone who's reasonably tech-savvy, beware where your descriptively captioned photos might end up after the breakup. Dude..."
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