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Comment Re:Instead of referring to just "Blue Hippo" (Score 5, Informative) 216

by TSHTF on Friday November 13, 2009 @11:19PM (#30094694) Attached to: BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC

From the court documents linked in the article: Joseph K. Rensin is the sole owner and shareholder of BlueHippo Funding, LLC. FTC 26. Mr. Rensin acted as Chief Executive Officer of BlueHippo from its inception in 2003 until July 20, 2009. See FTC 28 at 7-8; FTC 22G at 3. As CEO, BlueHippo's corporate officers, including the Chief Marketing Officer, reported directly to Mr. Rensin. FTC 28 at 20-22. In addition, Mr. Rensin was involved in BlueHippo's day-to-day operations, "manag[ing] the overall structure and direction of the business" and "overseeing the senior management team in formulating strategy." Id. at 22; FTC 22G at 3.

Comment RTFM for more DoS suggestions (Score 1) 112

by TSHTF on Thursday November 12, 2009 @04:40PM (#30078484) Attached to: How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap

Great paper. Cisco is also nice enough to write up about their "Lawful" Intercept products. For example, in Configuring Lawful Intercept Support, they kindly warn the end-user that "To maintain VXSM performance, lawful intercept is limited to no more than 60 active calls." Thanks for the suggestion!

Submission + - Will Google's New "Go" Language become "Issue 9"? (informationweek.com)

Submitted by TSHTF on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @10:35PM

TSHTF writes: On Tuesday 10 November, 2009, Google officially unveiled their Go programming language. Soon thereafter, Francis McCabe, the creator of a much older programming language known as Go!, published a bug report opened an issue in the Go language tracker. In the issue ticket, he asks Google to change the name of their new language, as he had "been working on a programming language, also called Go, for the last 10 years." So far, the most popular alternative name in the bug report is "Issue 9", which pays homage to Plan 9, the role of former Bell-labs developers in the new language's development, and the issue number as filed on the bug tracker. The naming controversy is also being covered in Information Week.

Submission + - Microsoft threatens exposer of bing-cashback flaw

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07, 2009 @04:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Bountii.com recently posted information on a flaw in bing's cash-back system. It is trivial for individuals to fake cash-back requests to bing. A further concern is that these illegitimate cash-back requests can block out legitimate ones in the future as each order ID is tied to a maximum of one-cash back request, and with sequential order IDs it would be easy to claim all future orders. Rather than do the reasonable thing, of fixing the security flaw, Microsoft fired back with a nasty gram from its lawyers, demanding that bountii remove the information. And while bountii has complied with Microsoft's request, the flaw is should be readily apparent to anyone reading the bing cashback sdk. Perhaps one day Microsoft will learn that the approriate response to security issues isn't lawyers and threats, its programmers and patches.

Submission + - Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07, 2009 @10:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affected three million people. Another, smaller blackout north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005 was also triggered by computer intruders, the network claims.

Submission + - The Best Medications For Your Genes (forbes.com)

Submitted by blackbearnh on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @07:09PM

blackbearnh writes: Until recently, physicians prescribed drugs to patients with dosages based only on weight, and with no idea if the drug would be effective for that particular person. But as this article over on Forbes.com highlights, the same advances in genomics that are letting people know about their likelihood of getting certain diseases can also let doctors know what drugs, and what dosages, will be likely to do the most good. TFA: Tamoxifen, the much-heralded cancer-fighting drug, has been shown to have little benefit for 7% to 10% of patients taking it. In the past, we would have just said that it works 90% of the time. But now, with our new genomic knowledge under our belt, we can say that it works nearly 100% of the time for people with the "right" version of the CYP2D6 gene, and 0% of the time for people with the "wrong" version, who make up roughly 7% to 10% of the population.

Submission + - T-Mobile loses all information stored on Sidekicks (t-mobile.com)

Submitted by stigmato on Saturday October 10, 2009 @09:32PM

stigmato writes: T-Mobile's popular Sidekick brand of devices and their users are facing a data loss crisis. According to the T-Mobile community forums, Microsoft/Danger has suffered a catastrophic server failure that has resulted in the loss of all personal data not stored on the phones. They are advising users not to turn off their phones, reset them or let the batteries die in them for fear of losing what data remains on the devices. Microsoft/Danger has stated that they cannot recover the data but are still trying. Already people are clamoring for a lawsuit. Should we continue to trust cloud computing content providers with our personal information? Perhaps they should have used ZFS or btrfs for their servers...

Submission + - Sidekick Data on Microsoft Servers "has been lost"

Submitted by TSHTF on Saturday October 10, 2009 @07:11PM

TSHTF writes: T-mobile has informed sidekick users that based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment ... [data] that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. This includes all contacts, pictures, and related data which was stored on remote servers, and not the sidekick device. In reporting the issue, CNet suggests the outage may cast a dark cloud over online Microsoft services, as "key tenet of that approach is that businesses and consumers can trust Microsoft too reliably store precious and valuable data on their servers."

Submission + - Danger/Sidekick: total irrecoverable data loss (t-mobile.com)

Submitted by Quinthar on Saturday October 10, 2009 @06:38PM

Quinthar writes: Don't let your Sidekick fall asleep else you will permanently, irrecoverably lose all data. In their words: "we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device... that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger" Not the finest day for cloud-hosted data.

Submission + - T-Mobile warns customers' data might be lost (t-mobile.com)

Submitted by 1ini on Saturday October 10, 2009 @05:16PM

1ini writes: T-Mobile have posted on their forums that "...personal information stored on your device — such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos — that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."

Submission + - Yahoo provided Iran with names of 200,000

Submitted by rcamans on Friday October 09, 2009 @09:11AM

rcamans writes: October 8th, 2009
"ZDnet's Richard Koman accuses Yahoo of having collaborated with the Iranian regime during the recent post-election protests. Koman says the online giant provided names and emails for some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users to authorities so that those same authorities would "unban" Yahoo on the state-controlled internet. The blog post does not include a response by Yahoo to the allegations, but promises "to provide further proof as the story unfolds." Snip:
This is according to a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity (Farsi) blog. My sources indicate the information comes from a group of resisters who have infiltrated the administration and are leaking out important information. These sources say that Yahoo representatives met with Iranian Internet authorities after Google and Yahoo were shut down during the protests and agreed to provide the names of Yahoo subscribers who also have blogs in exchange for the government lifting the blocks on Yahoo." This quote from ZDNET @ http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5547.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/09/yahoo-accused-of-hav.html#more

Yahoo has not yet responded to these claims, and they are not substantiated. Can anyone out there help substantiate these?

Submission + - Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize (reuters.com) 3

Submitted by

AbbeyRoad

on Friday October 09, 2009 @06:10AM

AbbeyRoad writes: "OSLO (Reuters) — U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament. ... The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.""

Submission + - Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 3

Submitted by techmuse on Friday October 09, 2009 @05:19AM

techmuse writes: President Barack Obama has just been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

Submission + - SSL Certificate For PayPal Leaked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 05, 2009 @08:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: After nine weeks, null-prefix certificates that exploit the SSL certificate vulnerability Moxie Marlinspike presented at Defcon 17 are beginning to appear. Today, someone posted a null-prefix certificate for www.paypal.com on the full-disclosure mailing list. In conjunction with sslsniff, this certificate can be used to intercept communication to PayPal from all clients using the Windows Crypto API, for which a patch is still not available. This includes IE, Chrome, and Safari on Windows. What's worse, because of the OCSP attack that Moxie also presented at Defcon, this certificate can not be revoked.

Submission + - UK Defense "Manual of Security" found on Wikileaks (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by on Monday October 05, 2009 @06:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: As discussed in many mainstream UK media sources, the classified "MoD Manual of Security Volumes 1, 2 and 3" have been published on Wikileaks. Amusingly enough, the manual covers "Leaks of Official Information". In addition, it documents "the threat from subversive or terrorist organisations, investigative journalists and others". The Ministry of Defense has downplayed the leak, calling the RESTRICTED document old.

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