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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, PRIVACY, Technicals
Earlier this week the six strikes anti-piracy system finally launched more than a year later than initially planned. One of the things that stood out most was the lack of information released through official channels. On launch day the Center for Copyright...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
At RSA Conference, security execs say using big data for security may be a future issue but it’s a little much right now “I don’t call it Big Data,” I call it garbage data,” said Jerry Sto. Tomas, director of global information security...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the don’t-worry-it’s-just-1s-and-0s dept. Officials at the Chinese Defense Ministry say hackers from the U.S. have been attacking Chinese military websites. ‘The sites were subject to about 144,000 hacking attacks each month last year, two...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY
from the horse-head-in-your-bed dept. The new Copyright Alert System, a.k.a. the ‘Six Strikes’ policy, went into effect on Monday. Comcast and Verizon activated it today. Ars Technica asked them and other participating ISPs to see the copyright alerts that...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | LAW, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the uncovering-final-console-generation dept. Stephen Totilo at Kotaku has a long article detailing the exploits of an Australian hacker who calls himself SuperDaE. He managed to break into networks at Microsoft, Sony, and Epic Games, from which he retrieved...
