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 | Blog Entry
A controversial bill that would tax sodas with sugar has been introduced in Austin by State Rep. Joe Farias, D-Dist. 118, of San Antonio. To read the full bill, click here (PDF). The tax would be charge a nickel extra for every 12 ounces of soft drink in a...
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...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, POLITICAL
The only official punished for the illegal NSA program was the one who discussed it. The same is now true of torture by Glenn Greenwald The permanent US national security state has used extreme secrecy to shield its actions from democratic accountability ever since...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the making-the-best-of-it dept. “New video card launches from AMD and NVIDIA are almost always reviewed on hardware less than 12 months old. That’s not an arbitrary decision — it helps reviewers make certain that GPU performance isn’t held back...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
from the ten-years-warning-insufficient dept. Several major Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom, including BSkyB, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, AAISP and Fluidata, have warned that the adoption of Carrier Grade NAT (IPv4 address sharing) is likely to become...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
It is now illegal under federal law to unlock your cell phone without permission from your wireless carrier. Here’s a quick guide to answer all your why, how, and WTF questions. As of today, it is illegal to unlock your new smartphone. This rule, issued by the...
