It’s easy enough to supply Wi-Fi to a conference room or reception area. But what if you want wireless Internet available throughout your office? Especially if your employees depend on the wireless network to get online? Tweet !–//– In your 21st-century office, employees carry laptops and cell phones. They want…
Microsoft starts 2011 with light patch Tuesday
The first Patch Tuesday monthly security update from Microsoft will be light compared with 17 patches aimed at fixing 42 vulnerabilities in December. Microsoft plans only two updates on 11 January, with just one rated “critical”, despite having to open zero-day vulnerabilities. Alan Bentley, senior vice-president at security firm Lumension,…
Ten years of evolving cyber menaces
CHRONOLOGY OF SECURITY THREATS As Fortinet celebrates 10 years of innovation and leadership in security, Fortiguard Labs took a look at the 10 most intriguing threats over the last 10 years and explains how their feature sets have evolved Darwin-like over time. 2000: I LOVE YOU worm This was an…
DoJ orders Twitter to give Wikileaks-related account info
The US Justice Department has obtained a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic politician, a legendary Dutch hacker and a US computer programmer. The DoJ order targets Wikileaks-related Twitter activists, including Birgitta Jónsdóttir. Photo credit: Althingi…
WikiLeaks Says U.S. Demands Twitter Info
U.S. officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks’ Twitter account, the group announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities. In a statement, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter…
Tunisian Government Allegedly Hacking Facebook, Gmail Accounts of Dissidents and Journalists
Massive riots and protests have rocked Tunisia this past month. After a 26-year-old street vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi attempted to kill himself by self-immolation (he survived and later died of his burns), hundreds of thousands took to the North African nation’s streets. The protesters complain of unemployment, economic woes, and…
Court probes WikiLeaks Twitter info
U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand the details of WikiLeaks’ Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday, part of the criminal case which Washington is trying to build against the secret-spilling website. WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange said he believed other American Internet companies such as Facebook and Google…
WikiLeaks wants Google and Facebook to reveal writs after U.S. government orders Twitter to give up details of site’s …
Last updated at 12:11 AM on 10th January 2011 Harrassment: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has slammed U.S. attempts to order information from Twitter U.S. investigators are demanding the details of WikiLeaks’ Twitter account – as part of a criminal case the government is trying to build against the secret-spilling website….
Big DVD bust at Downsview market
Click here to watch the video Toronto Police raided a large-scale operation that specialized in pirated DVD’s. Watch the raid.Play Video The seizure of illegally copied movies at a Toronto flea market shows Canada’s piracy laws are “weak” and average folks just don’t seem to care that it’s a crime….
Mac app piracy risk overblown, for now
Software piracy may not be quite as disruptive as the high seas kind, but it’s certainly more widespread. With this week’s launch of the Mac App Store, it was only a matter of time before the something-for-nothing crowd figured out a way to bypass Apple’s restrictions. But is the so-called…
