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Submission + - Police use rioters' BlackBerrys to hack Messenger (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @10:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: London police say they used phones confiscated from people they'd arrested to monitor BlackBerry Messenger for signs of riot-related activity.

Testifying before MPs on the home affairs committee, acting Metropolitan police commissioner, Tim Godwin, said access to BBM was a handy "intelligence asset", along with what could be gleaned from Twitter.

Godwin declined to comment on how helpful RIM was being in helping identify rioting Londoners. Asking to "plead the fifth", he said: "I would rather not answer that question as it is an investigative strategy."

Submission + - Greenhouse gas boosts life of space junk (sciencenews.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @10:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Who knew that ground-level emissions of carbon dioxide could play a role in elevating the lifetime of aerospace debris--and the risk it poses to spacecraft and astronauts? But a new paper finds it's helping shrink the thermosphere, which decreases the drag on space junk--the only natural process that culls this orbiting trash.

Submission + - Google claims open-source Android code is secret (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Theaetetus

on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @09:57AM

Theaetetus writes: "In what is claimed by patent pundit Florian Muller to be a procedural tactic, Google has asked the International Trade Commission to block testimony of a Microsoft expert in the ongoing Motorola-Microsoft patent dispute, on the grounds that code of the popular open source operating system is confidential."

Submission + - 1,000,000 User Info Leaked From Sonypictures (pastebin.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02, 2011 @05:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: LulzSec, the anonymous hackers which posted a fake news story about Tupac Shakur being alive and well in New Zealand on the PBS website, is now turning its attentions towards Sonymusic.com

Submission + - SonyPictures.com hacked, 1M accounts compromised

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02, 2011 @05:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: The pain for Sony continues. Today the company finally managed to get the PlayStation Store back online fully and new content uploaded, but that won’t be the biggest Sony headline of the day. Hacker group LulzSec is claiming to have successfully hacked SonyPictures.com and accessed 1 million user accounts including passwords, e-mail addresses, full home addresses, and date of birth. LulzSec stated that they also managed to get the details of all admin accounts for the website.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Verifying Security of a Hosted Site

Submitted by edi_guy on Thursday June 02, 2011 @04:58PM

edi_guy writes: I'm getting ready to launch a small commercial website that will contain customer information in a MySQL database that will be run by a web-hosting service. While I have good experience with SQL databases from a programming point of view, I'm not an expert on securing them. Given all of the publicity around break-ins and data theft on a seemingly daily basis, it seems prudent to review this now rather than later.

What are suggestions on resources that would help verify that both myself and my hosting service are following best practices on securing a database backed website?

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