Thursday, August 28, 2014

FBI Examining Whether Russia Is Tied to JPMorgan Hacking, cybercrime

Russian hackers attacked the U.S. financial system in mid-August, infiltrating and stealing data fromJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and at least one other bank, an incident the FBI is investigating as a possible retaliation for government-sponsored sanctions, according to two people familiar with the probe.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Netflix releases home-grown DDOS dectectors

NetFlix's security team has given the open source treatment to three tools it uses to monitor the internet and gather evidence of planned attacks against its infrastructure.



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California finally banning warrantless drone surveillance

California Senate approves measure banning warrantless drone surveillance ("The California State Senate passed legislation on Tuesday imposing strict regulations on how law enforcement and other government agencies can use drones, a move supporters said will protect privacy and prevent warrantless surveillance.")

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Ridley Scott says 'Blade Runner' sequel script is finished and 'damn good'

The script brings back Harrison Ford


Ridley Scott has been working on a sequel to Blade Runner for at least a couple years, and it now appears that the script is ready to roll. "It’s written and it’s damn good," he tellsEntertainment Weekly. The story will bring back Harrison Ford, who starred in the 1982 film as one of the eponymous replicant hunters. Scott says that Ford's character is "a survivor after all these years," which, certainly, is a curious fact in and of itself given the ambiguous ending of certain cuts of the film.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Hack skirmish also grounded Sony exec's flight XBox and Battle.net networks also targeted

While distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks hosed not only Playstation Network but also XBox and Battle.net networks, it's emerged that a fake bomb threat also grounded US flight 362, while Sony executive John Smedley was aboard.

A group (@LizardSquad was tweeting threats and invective in the vernacular of the since scuttled LulzSec hacker outfit, laughing as the PlayStation online gaming network went offline.

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Is Burning Man Now Just a Tech Conference in the Sand?

Is Burning Man Now Just a Tech Conference in the Sand? Re/code Heads to Black Rock to Find Out.

Hawaii Savvy via Flickr The past few days — and no doubt increasingly in the coming week — some are bemoaning the fact that Burning Man is too much of a tech hotspot, that it has become big business, that there’s money flowing. This year, the event is…

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PlayStation Network goes down following cyberattacks

PlayStation Network goes down following cyberattacks

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Sony may be experiencing a few unpleasant flashbacks this weekend. Both the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) are slowly recovering from a denial of service attack that flooded their server connections, kicking many gamers...

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