US District Judge Susan Illston is unsure why talented PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz is being tried in sunny California. Of course, Sony continues to insist that the trial be held in the Golden State, as Hotz posted a PS3 crack on Twitter and YouTube – both of which are…
Burnsville police seek suspects in credit card fraud case
BURNSVILLE, Minn.– Burnsville Police investigators hope images captured by surveillance cameras will help them nab a couple responsible for stealing and using people’s credit cards. The suspects have been stealing purses from vehicles in public parking lots, usually in the early morning or evening hours. Crimes have occurred in the…
Police: ID theft ring was operating in upscale Pearland neighborhoods
PEARLAND, Texas – Police are looking for three suspects charged with running an ID theft ring in an upscale Pearland neighborhood. Investigators say they were using fake credit cards with IDs from victims all over the country. They used the credit cards to purchase gift cards. They’d then sell the gift cards for less…
Sony PS3 Hacker To Argue That He ‘Re-Enabled’ Feature
Lawyers representing George Hotz, the individual accused of illegally hacking the Sony PlayStation 3, claim that Hotz did so to add back a feature that Sony had removed. Hotz, the lawyers claimed, “re-enabled” OtherOS functionality, or the ability to dual-boot the PlayStation 3 using some other OS, such as Linux….
The Dirty Girls Social Media Wars
Author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez angry at TV adaptation of her book By Bel Hernandez Holiday drama, titillating enough for a television series. Right about the time Hollywood was closing down for the holidays, author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez was firing off a slew of Facebook posts and twittering about her dissatisfaction…
Judge Delays Ruling on PlayStation Hack
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge here on Friday put off deciding whether PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz should surrender his computer gear as part of a lawsuit from console-maker Sony. Sony sued Hotz on Tuesday, alleging Hotz’ posting of the code to crack the PlayStation 3 was a breach…
Tourism agency warns of Internet hacker
Saturday, January 15, 2011 ALLEGED computer hackers are now starting to make a living out of using the Internet to hit the Department of Tourism’s regional office in Cagayan de Oro City on Thursday. Deceus Esmedalla, tourism department’s regional information officer, said a certain “Butro” sent him a message on…
What Net neutrality and WikiLeaks share
As an ink-stained wretch, Ive been fascinated by the controversy over the WikiLeaks disclosure of secret diplomatic cables and more recently, the Federal Communications Commission decision on whats called Net neutrality. The issues are nothing new since they involve government trying to control what people know and what they do….
DHS to underwrite 5-year, $16 million advance of DETER cyber security testbed
Public release date: 14-Jan-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Eric Mankinmankin@usc.edu 310-448-9112University of Southern California New funding will continue and enhance the effort headquartered at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute IMAGE:This is a visualization of an experiment conducted in the DETER testbed studying both…
Rampant phishing, viruses threaten China’s Internet
Newly-added viruses in 2010 reached 7.5 million, down 56 percent year on year, but new phishing websites amounted to 1.75 million, 12 times as much as the same period of last year, according to a report released by an information security vendor. Beijing Rising International Software Co. issued its 2010…