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A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers’ private information through the company’s ubiquitous data terminals to break news.
Amy Chozick and Ben Protess, Privacy breach on Bloomberg data terminals -
A Reuters investigation has uncovered new evidence of how willing some foreign companies were to assist Iran’s state security network, and the regime’s keenness to access as much information as possible.
Documents seen by Reuters show that a partner of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd offered to sell a Huawei-developed “Lawful Interception Solution” to MobinNet, Iran’s first nationwide wireless broadband provider, just as MobinNet was preparing to launch in 2010.
The system’s capabilities included “supporting the special requirements from security agencies to monitor in real time the communication traffic between subscribers,” according to a proposal by Huawei’s Chinese partner seen by Reuters.
SPECIAL REPORT: How foreign firms tried to sell spy gear to Iran
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Watch how hackers can use LinkedIn to steal your passwords
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Anyone can be a terrorist. Even two-time Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. That’s Rummy getting a nice rub-down from the folks at TSA at Chicago O’Hare. Rumsfeld was reportedly on his way to Betty Ford’s funeral.
Photo: screengrab from Daily Mail, who got it from Flash/TMZ.
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Nicolas Sarkozy grabbed during public appearance
The dangers of the rope-line: French President Nicolas Sarkozy was grabbed and pulled by a man while walking past a rope-line at a public event today. What we find most interesting about this: “Sarkozy says he will take no action against the man.” Now, we’d be shocked if this guy isn’t in a world of legal trouble right now, but for Sarkozy to openly state he’ll take no action against him sort of surprised us. If this happened to President Obama, we bet there would be a lot more emphasis and on this, both from the administration and the media. source
(Source: shortformblog)
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What information are you broadcasting about yourself via social networks?
A direct marketer’s dream
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LulzSec and the 'A-Team'
From Pasteboard:
To understand who/what lulzsec/gn0sis are/is you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the *chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. This internet subculture is pretty much the dregs of the internet. It’s a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No one can hurt you, so your invincable. The problem with this idealogy, is it’s on the internet. The internet by definition is not anonymous. Computers have to have attribution. If you trace something back far enough you can find its origins. So let’s give a brief event timeline on how these groups got together:
1. Anonymous rises up from 4chan against CoS.
2. Anonymous starts DDoSing stuff.
3. Various lower level hacking groups get involved.
4. Anonymous stagnates for a while.
5. Uprisings in the world Attract Anonymous.
6. ProjectPM Looser Barrett Brown becomes mouth piece of Anon.
7. Anonymous shifts focus toward “Worldy” Affairs.
8. Aaron Barr desides he’s tired of his job and targets Anon.
9. gn0sis (Uncommon) comes out of no where and releases the Gawker data.
10. gn0sis teams up with anon hackers with all the OP<INSERT SOMETHING HERE> crap.
11. gn0sis (nigg, eekdacat, uncommon, kayla, lauralie) and sabu (from OP Anon shit) hack HBGary.
12. This is where Topiary comes in. They all form lulzsec to be “hacktivists”.
13. Lulzsec (now a mix of gn0sis and opanon people) hack SONY and other stuff.(Source: danpatterson)
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Sony laid off a number of employees responsible for network security, two weeks before attacks brought down the PlayStation Network.
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Facebook users’ personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years.
Third-parties had access to personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat.
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