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  Man Behind AT&T iPad Hack Busted for Drugs by FBI

  JP 11:26 am on June 18, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: amp (6), Andrew Auernheimer, Arkansas (3), e mail addresses, fbi raid, hacker (7), nbsp (1,691), possession of a controlled substance, Read (1,473), T iPad

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  Last week, a hacker group known as Goatse Security exposed a major security hole in AT&T’s site, and gained access to more than 100,000 iPad users’ e-mail addresses and ID numbers. Now, the lead hacker behind that breach has landed himself in jail. According to CNET News, the FBI executed a search warrant of 24-year-old Andrew Auernheimer’s home in Arkansas, and found cocaine, ecstasy, LSD and multiple pharmaceuticals. “Weev,” as he’s known in the hacker community, faces four felony charges of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor possession charge.

  In a letter to iPad users, AT&T claimed it would help investigate and prosecute any illegal activity related to the hack. Right now, it’s not clear whether or not the FBI raid was a result of that vow, but, if we were gambling types, we’d bet it was. Either way, after all the national attention Auernheimer received for the attack, you’d think he would be expecting a visit from the police. Having a drug stash is never a good idea for somebody with such a high profile. [From: CNET News, via: Engadget]

  Man Behind AT&T iPad Hack Busted for Drugs by FBI originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  HP Plugs Printers Into the Cloud, Lets You Print from Google Docs

  JP 11:48 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday a new line of printers that have their own e-mail addresses in an attempt to breathe new life into printing. Rather than connect a device to the printer, you can simply e-mail a document, photo or PDF to one of HP’s new machines, and it will be waiting in the printer’s tray when you get home. The company hopes these new printers, which will be released over the coming months and be priced from $99 to $400, will revitalize its printing business that took a large hit as fewer people began printing directions and documents — thanks, in part, to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based services.

  HP has also enlisted Google to help with this push, which will make it easier to print Google Docs, Spreadsheets and Calendar items, as well as Picasa galleries. Yahoo!, msnbc.com, Facebook and other companies also lined up with a suite of Web-based printer apps, accessible from HP’s ePrintCenter site. We’ll have to wait to see if taking printing mobile and bestowing e-mail addresses upon printers will keep printing alive. [From: HP and The New York Times, via: Engadget and PCMag]

  HP Plugs Printers Into the Cloud, Lets You Print from Google Docs originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  HP Plugs Printers Into the Cloud, Lets You Print from Google Docs

  JP 11:48 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: e mail addresses, google docs spreadsheets (2), nbsp (1,691), printer (6), printing (2), printing directions (2), Read (1,473)

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  Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday a new line of printers that have their own e-mail addresses in an attempt to breathe new life into printing. Rather than connect a device to the printer, you can simply e-mail a document, photo or PDF to one of HP’s new machines, and it will be waiting in the printer’s tray when you get home. The company hopes these new printers, which will be released over the coming months and be priced from $99 to $400, will revitalize its printing business that took a large hit as fewer people began printing directions and documents — thanks, in part, to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based services.

  HP has also enlisted Google to help with this push, which will make it easier to print Google Docs, Spreadsheets and Calendar items, as well as Picasa galleries. Yahoo!, msnbc.com, Facebook and other companies also lined up with a suite of Web-based printer apps, accessible from HP’s ePrintCenter site. We’ll have to wait to see if taking printing mobile and bestowing e-mail addresses upon printers will keep printing alive. [From: HP and The New York Times, via: Engadget and PCMag]

  HP Plugs Printers Into the Cloud, Lets You Print from Google Docs originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Fear Not! New Facebook Instant Personalization Privacy Hole Patched

  JP 1:47 am on May 17, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  It’s official. Facebook’s Instant Personalization sucks, and here’s why. Last night, security consultant George Deglin discovered a hole in Facebook’s new framework that, if correctly manipulated by a savvy hacker, could share a user’s name, e-mail and personal data with everyone else on the social network — without any action from the targeted user. As TechCrunch explains, this specific scheme works via Yelp, one of three sites selected to participate in Facebook’s Instant Personalization service. Because the service automatically gives Yelp access to a given Facebook user’s data each time he or she visits, all a hacker would have to do is enter a malicious code into the review site, and sit back as the confidential information rolls in. Luckily, Yelp and Facebook both shut down Instant Personalization for a few hours after being notified of the problem, and the hole has reportedly been patched. But that hasn’t done a lot to quell the latent concerns over Facebook’s new service.

  For starters, the social networking site’s stated response to all of this was disturbingly ambiguous. After initially denying Instant Personalization’s role in the glitch, Facebook eventually ‘fessed up and sheepishly admitted that the exploit was even more insidious than first reported. The hole reportedly leaked not only user information, but the e-mail addresses of his or her friends, as well.

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  Fear Not! New Facebook Instant Personalization Privacy Hole Patched originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 12 May 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Fear Not! New Facebook Instant Personalization Privacy Hole Patched

  JP 1:48 am on May 16, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  It’s official. Facebook’s Instant Personalization sucks, and here’s why. Last night, security consultant George Deglin discovered a hole in Facebook’s new framework that, if correctly manipulated by a savvy hacker, could share a user’s name, e-mail and personal data with everyone else on the social network — without any action from the targeted user. As TechCrunch explains, this specific scheme works via Yelp, one of three sites selected to participate in Facebook’s Instant Personalization service. Because the service automatically gives Yelp access to a given Facebook user’s data each time he or she visits, all a hacker would have to do is enter a malicious code into the review site, and sit back as the confidential information rolls in. Luckily, Yelp and Facebook both shut down Instant Personalization for a few hours after being notified of the problem, and the hole has reportedly been patched. But that hasn’t done a lot to quell the latent concerns over Facebook’s new service.

  For starters, the social networking site’s stated response to all of this was disturbingly ambiguous. After initially denying Instant Personalization’s role in the glitch, Facebook eventually ‘fessed up and sheepishly admitted that the exploit was even more insidious than first reported. The hole reportedly leaked not only user information, but the e-mail addresses of his or her friends, as well.

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  Fear Not! New Facebook Instant Personalization Privacy Hole Patched originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 12 May 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Office Copiers Are a Treasure Trove of Sensitive Data

  JP 1:51 am on April 2, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Canada (8), copier, e mail addresses, nbsp (1,691), office (5), office copiers, Read (1,473), Toronto (5), Treasure Trove, Victor Beitner

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  Believe it or not, that lowly office copier may just be the weak link in your office’s security. Modern copy machines aren’t just dumb blocks of electronics that photograph documents and regurgitate them on a piece of paper. They’re networked computers, with hard drives, that store anything and everything you scan or copy.

  The Toronto Star talked to Victor Beitner, founder of Cyber Security Canada, who said that most businesses are completely unaware of the sensitive material just sitting in most copiers, waiting for hackers. He says that almost every copier he encounters is still storing confidential documents, names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and even medical records.

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  Office Copiers Are a Treasure Trove of Sensitive Data originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'GoodCrush' Social Network Asks, 'If He Likes You, Would You Like Him?'

  JP 1:49 am on April 2, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: chain mail, e mail addresses, GoodCrush, Josh Weinstein, nbsp (1,691), Read (1,473), Social (40)

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  No one ever said being in college was easy. What with the demands of drinking, drugs, and the occasional exam, the average 20-something faces a schedule jam packed with rigorous activity. Luckily, though, a new site can help students save time when it comes to at least one major item on the syllabus: hooking up.

  Created by Josh Weinstein, GoodCrush is a dating service exclusively aimed at helping busy college kids get action. Drawing on a common chain mail theme, the site works in a pretty straightforward way; users sign up, list the e-mail addresses of five of their “crushes,” and then sit back and wait. Each of the crushes will be notified that someone prowling around campus has a crush on them, but won’t be able to see the crusher’s name. The real magic happens, though, when the stars align, and two people list each other as crushes. Whenever this happens, both parties are notified, identities are revealed, and, well… y’know.

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  ‘GoodCrush’ Social Network Asks, ‘If He Likes You, Would You Like Him?’ originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  RockYou App Site Hacked, 32M Accounts Compromised

  JP 12:55 am on December 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  RockYou, maker of irritating apps for Facebook and other social networks, along with add-ons like ‘Glittertext’ for MySpace, has suffered a major security breach that has potentially exposed e-mails and passwords of some 32 million users. Security firm Imperva contacted RockYou to alert it to a flaw it had found in its database of account information. But Imperva’s warning was too late. At least one hacker has already claimed to have gained access and posted portions of the stolen data to prove it.

  According to the hacker’s posting, he obtained the account info for exactly 32,603,388 of RockYou’s roughly 55 million users. What’s worse though, is that the information for accounts on the site was stored in an unencrypted text file — including e-mail addresses and passwords. If you have a RockYou account and tend to use the same password for everything, we strongly suggest you change the password on all of your accounts. Now.

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  RockYou App Site Hacked, 32M Accounts Compromised originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Many Facebookers Blindly Accept Friend Requests, Aussie Study Finds

  JP 12:52 am on December 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Daisy (2), Daisy Feletin, e mail addresses, Facebookers, female profiles, friend (6), nbsp (1,691), Read (1,473), taking security, U.S. (109)

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  Despite warnings of scams, Facebook users still don’t seem to be taking security seriously. We’re not sure what encourages this reckless behavior, but it apparently isn’t isolated to U.S. shores. The folks at Sophos, an anti-virus firm, took it upon themselves to figure out just how trusting Australians are when it comes to Facebook friend requests. They created two female profiles — Daisy Feletin, a 21-year-old bachelorette, and Dinette Stonily, a 56-year-old wife. From each profile, researchers sent friend requests to 100 random people in the appropriate age group.

  The result? A larger chunk of people, 46-percent, accepted Daisy, but Dinette ended up with more friends because eight unsolicited Facebookers asked to be her friend. Considering the prevalence of scams exploiting such habits, it’s frightening that so many people would blindly accept a request from a person they’ve never met. Even worse, people who accepted the requests also had posted sensitive information (like e-mail addresses and birthdays) on their profiles — in other words, handing themselves over to scammers on a silver platter.

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  Many Facebookers Blindly Accept Friend Requests, Aussie Study Finds originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Shakespeare Had Collaborators, Says Computer Program

  JP 11:01 am on October 14, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: brian vickers, e mail addresses, Eddy Three, Edward III, nbsp (1,691), program (6), Read (1,473), Shakespeare, Sir Brian Vickers, Thomas Kyd

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  Thank goodness our e-mail addresses have changed since the days of Shakespeare 101, or we’d be getting big, fat “I told you so’s” from our college professors. For as many years as he’s been studied, scholars have raged about whether or not Shakespeare had collaborators (or snatched some language from playwrights of his day). However, Sir Brian Vickers at the University of London says he can now prove that Shakespeare got a hand, by using modern-day plagiarism technology.

  Vickers took ‘Pl@giarism,’ a program meant to detect whether or not students have been cheating, and took phrases from ‘Edward III,’ a play attributed to Shakespeare, and matched them against other dramatic pieces. According to Vickers, 60-percent of the play’s phrases are reminiscent of Shakespearean contemporary Thomas Kyd, while only 40-percent suit the Bard himself, leading the professor to conclude that ‘Eddy Three’ is mostly a work of Kyd’s.

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  Shakespeare Had Collaborators, Says Computer Program originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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