by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
In a few weeks the MPAA, RIAA and five major U.S. Internet providers will start to warn BitTorrent pirates. The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are told that their behavior is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the rome-wasn’t-built-in-5-years-either dept. Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the go-big-or-go-home dept. An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from an article at Bloomberg giving an inside look at how the Libor scandal happened: “Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the get-to-the-choppa! dept. Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet, InfoWorld reports. ‘A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year, and although you...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the facebook-and-the-rest dept. A new report released Monday revealed that Google+, less than a year and a half after its public debut, is now the No. 2 social network in the world with 343 million active users. Even better for Google, YouTube, which had not...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
Antigua and Barbuda is a small country in the Caribbean that for years had a flourishing gambling industry. A few years ago 5% of all Antiguans worked at gambling related companies. However, when the U.S. prevented the island from accessing their market the industry...
