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Steve Ragan
Anonymous, in response to the indictment of Megaupload and its removal from the Internet, has forced the U.S. Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA, Universal Music, the U.S. Copyright office, and BMI to protest SOPA and PIPA. How?
On Thursday, an indictment issued on January 5 by a federal grand jury in Virginia against two corporations and seven people was unsealed. As a result, five people were arrested, each connected to filesharing site Megaupload, and charged with running an organized criminal enterprise.
Earlier this week, after Sophos wrote a detailed report on the people behind Koobface, a family of Malware that takes its name from its original target, the command and control servers used by the gang have halted operations.
In response to the discovery that their hosted (SaaS) Total Protection product is acting as a spam toolkit, the company said they will release a patch to address the issue.
Several T-Mobile employees and a handful of their PR agents had some of their contact data exposed after one of the company’s webservers were breached. The group TeaMp0isoN claimed responsibility, noting that they exploited SQL Injection vulnerabilities on t-mobile.com to obtain the data.
In part two of The Tech Herald’s follow-up on the Stratfor password analysis, we examine common password creation methodologies, and why some of them simply don’t work like they used to. In addition, we look at some recent advice printed by the media, and put it to the test.
Earlier this month, The Tech Herald examined list of 860,160 passwords that were compromised by supporters of the AntiSec movement during a Christmas Eve attack on Strategic Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor). This new report examines the list after further testing, and includes additional information.
Nearly three weeks later, after having their Internet presence wiped entirely by supporters of the AntiSec movement, Strategic Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor) has reactivated their website.
Nearly three weeks later, after having their Internet presence wiped entirely by supporters of the AntiSec movement, Strategic Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor) has reactivated their website.
A lawsuit seeking class action status is calling Symantec's performance software Scareware. The proposed class action is seeking $5 million USD in damages, for what looks to be a disagreement with the trial software's functionality.
