Comment Zombies (Score 0) 284
One step closer to the zombie apocalypse.
Submission + - Lavabit forced to shut down
clorkster writes:
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
No doubt this has much to do with Snowden's use of the provider
Submission + - AT&T Microcell FAIL (fail0verflow.com) 1
CharlyFoxtrot writes: The geeks over on the fail0verflow blog took apart an AT&T Microcell device which is "essentially a small cell-tower in a box, which shuttles your calls and data back to the AT&T mothership over your home broadband connection." They soon uncovered some real security issues including a backdoor : "We believe that this backdoor is NOT meant to be globally accessible. It is probably only intended to be used over the IPSEC tunnel which the picoChip SoC creates. [...] Unfortunately, they set up the wizard to bind on 0.0.0.0, so the backdoor is accessible over the WAN interface."
Submission + - Iran blamed for major cyberattack on BBC (techworld.com)
Qedward writes: Iran is privately being blamed for a major cyberattack on the BBC earlier this month that blocked access to its popular Persian TV service and disrupted the Corporation’s IT using denial-of-service.
The multi-pronged March 2 attack took down much of the BBC’s email, overloaded its telephone switchboard with automatic phone calls, and blocked a satellite feed for the BBC Persian station. BBC servers were also on the end of a DDoS.
In an unprecedented tactic, the BBC has trailed a speech to be given this week to the Royal Television Society in which Director General Mark Thompson will mention the attacks in some detail while stopping short of formally naming Iran as the perpetrator.
The multi-pronged March 2 attack took down much of the BBC’s email, overloaded its telephone switchboard with automatic phone calls, and blocked a satellite feed for the BBC Persian station. BBC servers were also on the end of a DDoS.
In an unprecedented tactic, the BBC has trailed a speech to be given this week to the Royal Television Society in which Director General Mark Thompson will mention the attacks in some detail while stopping short of formally naming Iran as the perpetrator.
Comment Re:Burger King was my first thought too (Score 1) 383
IMO the pictures of the food on Burger Kings menu is an out right lie. In the pics they appear to use quarter pound patties(they appear as thick as the bottom bun at least), yet the patties are smaller than the damn patties that come on a happy meal from McDonald's.
Comment Take some of the big names already. (Score 1) 215
I think it would be awesome if they seized thepiratebay.org/
Maybe that would piss enough people off to stop this abuse of power.
Submission + - RMS on Jobs: "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad (latimes.com)
Garabito writes: Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has posted on his personal site: "As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.' Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing." His statement has spurred reaction from the community; some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice.
Submission + - Microsoft To Bring Cable TV to 360 (cnet.com)
iONiUM writes: "From the article, '[Microsoft] announced this morning that nearly 40 television content providers--including Comcast, Verizon, and HBO in the United States--will roll out programming over Xbox Live. The company also has deals lined up with providers in the U.K., Spain, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Italy.'
This seems like yet another step forward in killing traditional cable companies."
This seems like yet another step forward in killing traditional cable companies."
Submission + - FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques Revealed (wsj.com)
glittermage writes: The WSJ reports on an ongoing case regarding alleged "Hacker" Daniel David Rigmaiden regarding the governments tools used to track mobile devices with or without a warrant. The Judge may allow Daniel to defend himself against the governments claims by putting the technology into the light. Sounds good to me.
Submission + - Hackers break SSL encryption (theregister.co.uk) 1
CaVp writes: The Register has it: Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser.
Submission + - Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview (microsoft.com)
Tonyd0311 writes: Microsoft has just released the Windows 8 Developer Preview in both x86 and x64 formats. You can download it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/
Comment Re:Any plans to being Amazon video to consoles? (Score 1) 112
The videos can be played on Xbox 360, but they have to be downloaded to your PC first. Instructions for how to do it from amazon.com : http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/ontv/xbox
Submission + - Tanks test infra-red invisibility cloak (bbc.co.uk) 1
LibRT writes: The technology allows vehicles to mimic the temperature of their surroundings.
It can also make a tank look like other objects, such as a cow or car, when seen through heat-sensitive 'scopes.
Researchers are looking at ways to make it work with other wavelengths of light to confer true invisibility.
It can also make a tank look like other objects, such as a cow or car, when seen through heat-sensitive 'scopes.
Researchers are looking at ways to make it work with other wavelengths of light to confer true invisibility.
Submission + - Court overturns Mass law banning recording of cops (universalhub.com) 1
schwit1 writes: In its ruling, which lets Simon Glik continue his lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston said the wiretapping statute under which Glik was arrested and the seizure of his phone violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Submission + - Celebrities Flock to Reserve .xxx Domains (itproportal.com)
hypnosec writes: Celebrities have moved swiftly to block their names from the .xxx domain, which is meant for websites that offer pornographic content. Thousands of celebrities have contacted ICM Registry to put their names on the permanently reserved list so that no one will be able to start offering porn under their name. The domain registration company, ICM Registry, failed to give out the list of domain names it had blocked nor it is willing to tell how long the list is.
On a lighter note, OsamaBinLaden.xxx has been also blocked and we assume the Al Qaeda would have demanded to reserve the domain.
On a lighter note, OsamaBinLaden.xxx has been also blocked and we assume the Al Qaeda would have demanded to reserve the domain.
