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Submission + - Near-earth asteroid, Monday June 27 (skyandtelescope.com)

Submitted by TigerNut
TigerNut writes: Asteroid 2011 MD was discovered on June 22 by LINEAR, and its flight path will take it within 8000 miles (12000 km) of Earth. Orbital predictions indicate that its flight path will be significantly altered by this close approach.
Google

Submission + - FTC To Open Antitrust Investigation Against Google (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to serve subpoenas to Google as a first step in a broad antitrust investigation focusing on whether Google search is unfairly driving traffic to its other sites. Representatives of Google and the FTC declined to comment on the report, although an FTC spokesperson did deny that the report came from them."
Security

Submission + - Fired IT worker replaces CEO's PPT with porn (sophos.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc.

So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords.

And then, when his CEO was giving a presentation on a 64 inch TV to the board of directors... he replaced the slides with pornographic images of naked women.

Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service.

The moral? Don't piss off your IT staff

Comment Re:God, I can sympathize (Score 2) 538

by InsertWittyNameHere (#36474834) Attached to: Why Businesses Move To the Cloud: They Hate IT
To me it sounds like you don't have authority in the company to push these changes. I'm an IT manager and when these kinds of requests come in they have to be approved by a CXO, VP, or some other senior executive, that is the decision maker for that area of the company. Otherwise how do I know that this new program or this new website is in line with the company's goals and direction? You should take your case higher up and get the right people to support your project/request. Also, sometimes the person requesting something is trying to solve a problem but they're requesting the wrong tool for the job or they're overlooking an existing tool. Here are a few examples:

I got a request a couple weeks ago from a VP to change our AV gateway servers from Trend Micro to Norton. And I said no. Reason #1 - IT decides what AV to use, that's why you pay them to make these kinds of decisions. Reason #2 - changing the AV software on all of our gateways would cost money for licenses and time deployment so we can't just change it willy nilly.

I got a request from a manager for Blackberrys for all of his staff. I said no because corporate policy doesn't allow that. The people who run the company decided that it's a waste of money to give each employee a Blackberry. It's not even my decision.

I got a request from a manager wanting Photoshop for all of her staff. I said no because our business has absolutely nothing to do with creating graphics or touching up pictures. I asked her what problem she's trying to solve and she said they need to resize pictures sometimes. All of our computers have Paint.NET installed so I just sent someone for their local helpdesk to round them up in a boardroom and give a quick demo of using Paint.NET to accomplish what they needed. Everybody wins.

Comment Re:Something fishy here... (Score 1) 140

by InsertWittyNameHere (#36450376) Attached to: 15-Year-Old Sells Startup To ActiveState

Meet Daniil Kulchenko. He was an HTML programmer at age six. He was a freelance Linux systems administrator at 11. And at 15, he founded his first business: Phenona, a platform-as-a-service for building and hosting Perl applications.

There's a pic of him in there.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/activestate_buys_teen_programmer/
Canada

Submission + - Cdn IP Lobbyists Caught Faking Counterfeit Data (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian IP Council, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's IP lobby arm, has been caught floating false claims about the scope of counterfeiting in Canada. Recent claims include citing a figure based on numbers the FBI rejects ($22.5 billion), a figure the Canadian police won't support ($30 billion), and when pressed on the issue, it now points to yet another source that upon review indicates it fabricated its claims.
China

Submission + - Chinese Moon Probe Ventures into Deep Space (xinhuanet.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: After completing its 6 month moon survey mission, China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 is found to be in excellent condition and has abundant fuel left, and so it is set off from its moon orbit into deep space, heading toward Lagrangian point L2 about 1.5 million kilometers away from the earth, or about 4 times farther out than the moon. The orbiter left its moon orbit at 5:10 p.m., according to the State Administration of Science,Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). The probe is expected to perform exploration at L2. It is the first Chinese space craft venture beyond the moon and establish the country's capability in deep space exploration.

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