!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 7– A former Garden City High School teacher was sentenced Monday to three to 15 years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender under a plea agreement for having sex with a 17-year-old female student and using a computer to send her obscene material….
Spam Volume Recovers After Holiday Break
No Below Article The amount of spam hitting users’ inboxes fell off a cliff in late December, with many security experts attributing the decline to the sudden disappearance of the Rustock botnet and other networks from the spam business. But the level of spam has begun to gain back some…
‘Big Brother’ Star Pleads Guilty to Drug Ring Charge
1/10/2011 2:57 PM PST by TMZ Staff “Big Brother 9” star Matthew McDonald just pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone in connection with the giant drug ring allegedly founded by his BB co-star … and now he faces 20 years in prison. As we first reported, McDonald was arrested last…
Korean DDoS arrests
The Korean Times reports the arrest of a pair of hackers over the weekend on DDoS charges. According to prosecutors, the pair operated a gambling website on behalf of a crime gang. In an effort to boost traffic to their own site, they used a 50,000-strong botnet to overload 109…
Cloud Computing Used to Hack Wireless Passwords
German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, such as those found in homes and smaller businesses. Roth has created a program that runs on Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) system. It uses the massive computing…
Meru Networks Announces the First Secure ‘Retail-Ready’ Wireless LAN Solution
Posted on: Monday, 10 January 2011, 15:57 CST SUNNYVALE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – (NRF 2011) – Meru Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: MERU), the leader in virtualized and optimized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, today announced its secure “retail-ready” solution for the marketplace, designed to enable businesses to…
Hackers Find New Way to Cheat Wall Street
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts of latency into them. By doing so, they can subtly change the course of trading and pocket profits of millions of dollars in just a few seconds, says Rony…
Singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman dies at 59
Debbie Friedman January 10, 2011 By Sue Fishkoff, JTA Share Debbie Friedman [UPDATE] Debbie Friedman’s Funeral – Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, 11 am [LIVE VIDEO] – available here. Over the weekend, as singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman lay dying in a hospital bed in Southern California, the call went out to Jewish…
Top 10 Tech Scares of the Decade
The dawn of the new millennium prompted fears about the future, but so far reality has not quite matched the predictions of catastrophe. The first ten years passed uneventfully–well, aside from Y2K and a bunch of intelligent computer viruses. Here’s a look back at the past decade, and ten of…
Lady Gaga’s Polaroid Gadgets: A Closer Look
0 Comments +0 Recommends Email Print by IDG News Service, PCWorld Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/216428/a_closer_look_at_lady_gagas_polaroid_gadgets_.html?tk=rss Tags: Spyware. Category: Spyware/Cyber Snooping