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Submission + - Will companies face hosting bill shock for DDoS at (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
nk497
nk497 writes: "Firms are turning to the cloud for cost savings and scalability, but what happens if a company is struck by a denial-of-service attack? The scalability and charge-by-use models could be problematic for companies targeted by the likes of Anonymous. Microsoft and Google both said they would consider dropping charges if traffic spikes could be proved to be from such attacks, but couldn't say if such a rebate has yet been offered to any customers."

Submission + - Inside the core of Zwentendorf (derstandard.at)

Submitted by benesch
benesch writes: Austrian newspaper Der Standard has captivating pictures of a Fukushima-type reactor that never went live after a popular referendum in the 1970s.
From the source: "Austria: nuclear reactor Zwentendorf, construction started 1972, finished 1978, never activated following a no-vote in a national referendum on November 5th, 1978. It is a boiling water reactor like the one in Fukushima and about the same age."
Google

Submission + - Google Added Goggles on iPhone (vzcool.com) 1

Submitted by
votinh
votinh writes: "Goggles product of Google is being introduced as a part of an update to its iPhone suite. Moreover, iPhone owners will take right up to the bleeding edge of what even Google can achieve. Starting Internet searches based on photographs is an ambitious attempt of Google Goggles when Goggles is called “bleeding edge”. The application is officially known as a beta product and has been sold for Android for one year.
Goggles product of Google is being introduced as a part of an update to its iPhone suite.

However, currently, iPhone owners are able to join the fun of taking photographs and watching Google fail to identify them. The updated Google Mobile Application is available in the application store in Britain and will be sold in the world in the coming days. According to Google, people or pets, or cars, or furniture, or plants will not be used the application; however, it works with books, CDs and other products like – easily picking out the famous company and publisher logos.
The application is officially known as a beta product and has been sold for Android for one year.

Moreover, it is good on landmarks and Goggles successfully introduced the Arc de Triomphe, though it did not identify the World’s Largest Thermometer which is known as a landmark of equal importance. However, Goggles obtains a clear framing of the picture and decent lighting. This spent more time typing in a text-based search."
Canada

Submission + - ISP's war on BitTorrent hits World of Warcraft (itworld.com)

Submitted by
jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "Canadian Internet users have the prospect of a metered Internet looming over their head, and now World of Warcraft players who use Rogers Communications as their ISP are encountering serious throttling. The culprit seems to be Rogers' determination to go after BitTorrent. WoW uses BitTorrent as a utility to update game files — something most users probably aren't even aware of."

Submission + - Amazon Adopts Modular Data Center Design (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: Amazon.com is building data centers in Oregon using a modular design, joining fellow cloud builders Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in embracing factory-built components as a strategy to reduce the cost and deployment time for data center capacity. Amazon has also been buying property near Dublin, Ireland to expand its European cloud capacity.
Linux

Submission + - Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327 (slackware.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sun Mar 27 08:28:47 UTC 2011
There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release
candidate: Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716.
Very close now! But we'll likely hold out for 2.6.37.6.
Security

Submission + - Iranian Hacker Claims Credit For Comodo Hack (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Someone claiming to be the person behind last week's attack on a registration authority tied to Comodo has posted an explanation of the methods he supposedly used and the reasons for the attack. The rambling, disjointed message claims that the Comodo attack was not the act of an organized, state-sponsored group, but was instead the work of a lone actor who stumbled upon a way in.
"I was looking to hack some CAs like Thawthe, Verisign, Comodo, etc. I found some small vulnerabilities in their servers, but it wasn't enough to gain access to server to sign my CSRs. During my search about InstantSSL of Comodo, I found InstantSSL.it which was doing same thing under control of Comodo. After a little try, easily I got FULL access on the server, after a little investigation on their server, I found out that TrustDll.dll takes care of signing. It was coded in C#. Simply I decompiled it and I found username/password of their GeoTrust and Comodo reseller account," he said.

Submission + - SABAM wants truckers to pay for listening to radio (standaard.be) 3

Submitted by
guruevi
guruevi writes: "SABAM, the Belgian RIAA wants truckers to start paying for the copyrights to listen to the radio in their cabin. SABAM already has a system in place to extract fees from businesses for having radio's in the work area for businesses with more than 9 employees and they find that truckers' cabins are areas of work and thus infringe on their copyrights. The local politicians think this is going too far, they believe truckers need a radio for safety reasons and view a truck cabin as 'an intimate place'.

Can you come up with other places to extract music copyright remittances? Maybe you may want to pay taxes every time you take a dump as your gas may form a tune."
Government

Submission + - Did Patriot Hackers Attack Canadian Government? (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: It appears that Canada’s Finance, Defense Research and Development departments, as well as the Treasury Board, were hacked in February by what the Canadian government is calling an “unprecedented” and “significant” cyber attack. Although confirmation is pending, the attack seems to be the work of patriot hackers, using computer servers based in China.

Interestingly, the Canadian government admitted that if the hackers went all the way they would have accessed the financial information of private citizens.

This attack is hard to pull off, on one hand, and dangerously simple, on the other. Although seven months prior, CSIS, Canada’s Spy agency, warned in a CBC report that this attack was coming, the Canadian government still fell victim to it.

On a larger scale, with a specialized form of executive spear-phishing, big businesses, trading companies and as we saw in February, the federal departments of big governments are at risk, along with major corporations.
The Internet

Submission + - Apple Stores Prepare For iPad 2 Frenzy (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: Apple’s second-generation iPad tablet will be available in UK shops from 5pm on Friday

Apple retail stores across the UK are gearing up for the launch of the iPad 2 this Friday, despite rumoured delays. The long-awaited device will go on sale at 5pm local time, and will also be available to order online from 1am.

Prices start at £399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model – £30 less than the launch price for the same model of the original iPad last year. Meanwhile, at the high end, the 64GB Wi-Fi and 3G model costs £659 – £40 less than the same model of the original iPad.

This is the first time that Apple has reduced the price of a product for a successive version, and may be an attempt to undercut some of its Android competitors, such as the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The company also slashed the price of its original iPad, ahead of the second generation tablet launch.
Privacy

Submission + - Hacker takes off with TripAdvisor's customer email (securecomputing.net.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Up to 20 million travellers worldwide may have had their personal details fall into evil hands following a hacker breach at travel community website TripAdvisor at the weekend. In an email to members today, TripAdvisor's CEO assured recipients no credit card details were stolen but didn't explain the source of the vulnerability or what it was doing to ensure it didn't get pwned again

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