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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 | 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...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the prior-permission-and-assumed-wrongdoing dept. This last week, the Copyright Alert System was rolled out. Now that everyone is getting a better idea of what the alert system looks like, criticisms are building against the system. Freezenet says that the mere...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The IT security world is full of charlatans and wannabes. And all of us have been “advised” by at least one of them. All you want in an IT security consultant is expertise, unbiased advice, and experienced recommendations at a reasonable price. But with...
