One of the hackers in the group that snatched more than 100,000 iPad owner e-mail addresses from AT&T’s servers was arrested Tuesday on felony drug charges after the FBI searched his Arkansas home.
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DNS security reaches ‘key’ milestone
June 16th, 2010
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The dream of bolting security onto the Internet’s Domain Name System takes one step closer to reality Wednesday as Internet policymakers host a ceremony in northern Virginia to generate and store the first cryptographic key that will be used to secure the Internet’s root zone.
Security experts, hackers question AT&T’s iPad data safety claim
June 14th, 2010
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AT&T sent a explanatory letter to its iPad subscribers Sunday, even as new details emerged that last week’s leak of customer information was not as difficult as the company maintains, and, contrary to the company’s claims, could be used to gain additional data.
ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home
June 14th, 2010
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French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.
FBI investigating iPad e-mail leaks
June 11th, 2010
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses.
Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a Web application on AT&T’s Web site that returned an iPad user’s e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries. [...]
‘Brute force’ script snatched iPad e-mail addresses
June 10th, 2010
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The harvesting of over 100,000 iPad 3G owners’ e-mail addresses was not a hack or a classic data breach, but a brute force attack of a minor feature AT&T offered to Apple customers, experts said Wednesday.
Chinese government whitepaper reaffirms Internet policies
June 8th, 2010
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A Chinese government whitepaper released on Tuesday praised the Internet for improving access to information and giving citizens a way to better oversee the behavior government officials, but reaffirmed the need for policies aimed at controlling access to online content.
Group lists top five social media risks for businesses
June 8th, 2010
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As businesses increasingly try to figure out how to use social networking tools in the enterprise , an IT governance group has released a ranking of the top five risks social media poses to companies.
