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Submission + - Patent Troll now armed with thousands of Nortel patents (techdirt.com)

Submitted by dgharmon on Sunday May 27, 2012 @02:39PM

dgharmon writes: You may recall last summer that Apple, Microsoft, EMC, RIM, Ericsson and Sony all teamed up to buy Nortel's patents for $4.5 billion. They beat out a team of Google and Intel who bid a bit less. While there was some antitrust scrutiny over the deal, it was dropped and the purchase went through. Apparently, the new owners picked off a bunch of patents to transfer to themselves... and then all (minus EMC, who, one hopes, was horrified by the plans) decided to support a massive new patent troll armed with the remaining 4,000 patents. The company is called Rockstar Consortium, and it's run by the folks who used to run Nortel's patent licensing program anyway — but now employs people whose job it is to just find other companies to threaten:

Submission + - DHS releases keywords it monitors on Social Networks and online media (dailymail.co.uk) 8

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27, 2012 @03:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

Submission + - Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Saturday May 26, 2012 @06:16PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Defense Tech reports that continuing it’s tradition of reverse engineering and fabricating its stockpile of 40-year old American weaponry, Iran announced that it is about to unveil its first ever domestically produced Cobra attack choppers. Nearly 50-years after the US introduced the legendary Bell AH-1 Cobra, once the the backbone of the United States Army's attack helicopter fleet, Iran’s locally-grown Cobras will be armed with “different types of home-made caliber guns, rockets and missiles,” according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. “All the phases of designing and manufacturing of the chopper have been done inside the country and the helicopter enjoys some capabilities which make it preferable to Apache Choppers,” says Brigadier General Kioumars Heidari. Iranian officials stress that the Iran's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country reports the FARS news release. More photos available here."

Comment Well...not exactly (Score 1) 160

by beauwoods on Friday November 03, 2006 @11:14AM (#16702975) Attached to: Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip

I'm the Information Security Analyst at DeKalb Medical Center. The article isn't exactly right, it mixes up two different stories that my boss told the reporter.

"Pink Slip" email: A few employees received an email from "John.E" (John.T@chenpr.com) saying that they had insider knowledge that the email recipient would be getting fired soon. The email went on to say that there were some "folks who helped" his brother, and gave a phone number in Alabama that has been disconnected. The domain name belongs to a company in Massachusetts, so this may be a Joe Job on them or someone just forging their address to make their services look legit. Others have received this Spam, too.

"Keylogger" email: This was just a regular SPAM email, but was forged to be from a legitimate email address in our company. It had a link to an executable on a website in China, but was disguised using html to make it look like the link went to our domain. There was no keylogger in the payload of this trojan, only a SPAM virus that we quickly detected and removed. This email got through because it was forged from a specific email address that we allow to come from the internet with a forged "From" address.

Hope that helps clear things up.

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