Sues game maker for saying otherwise
Sony has been sued by its insurance company, which says the policy it issued doesn't cover a series of high-profile security breaches that exposed personal information associated with more than 100 million accounts.
A complaint filed Wednesday by the Zurich American Insurance Company (ZAIC) and the Zurich Insurance Company said the breaches have generated at least 55 class-action complaints against Sony in the US and three in Canada. Additionally Sony has been subject of investigations conducted by one or more state attorney general's offices, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade relating to the unauthorized access of its customers' data.
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Prosecution of Reddit founder cited
A critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service.
The 18,592 documents made available Wednesday through Bittorrent were pulled from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, a prestigious scientific journal that was founded in the 1600s, the protester said. Even though the vast majority of the documents are hundreds of years old, the London-based Royal Society charges from $8 to $19 for each one, and restricts viewing to one person on one computer for only a single month.
A critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service.
The 18,592 documents made available Wednesday through Bittorrent were pulled from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, a prestigious scientific journal that was founded in the 1600s, the protester said. Even though the vast majority of the documents are hundreds of years old, the London-based Royal Society charges from $8 to $19 for each one, and restricts viewing to one person on one computer for only a single month.
Default passwords raise bricking threat, maybe more
Now that Apple has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine's battery.
Charlie Miller, well known for his numerous attacks on iPhones and Macs, may not have achieved his ultimate objective of making a Mac spontaneously combust, but he has figured out how to permanently disable the battery. And in time, he said, it also may be possible to remotely hijack a machine by manipulating the firmware on one of the stored power supply's chips.
Now that Apple has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine's battery.
Charlie Miller, well known for his numerous attacks on iPhones and Macs, may not have achieved his ultimate objective of making a Mac spontaneously combust, but he has figured out how to permanently disable the battery. And in time, he said, it also may be possible to remotely hijack a machine by manipulating the firmware on one of the stored power supply's chips.
The best way to defend against most network vulnerabilities is to deal with the simplest attack vectors, according to Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD).
The DSD's analysis has credibility and clout, because it's based on analysis of real attacks launched against Australian government networks. And according to its latest work, as much as 85 percent of attacks can be addressed with four relatively straightforward defences.
These are, in order: keep applications patched and use the latest version of applications (Flash, the Acrobat PDF viewer, Microsoft office and Java are singled out); patch operating system vulnerabilities; minimize the number of users with administrative access to systems (while making sure that your BOFH doesn't use an admin account for e-mail and browsing); and whitelist your applications.
The DSD's analysis has credibility and clout, because it's based on analysis of real attacks launched against Australian government networks. And according to its latest work, as much as 85 percent of attacks can be addressed with four relatively straightforward defences.
These are, in order: keep applications patched and use the latest version of applications (Flash, the Acrobat PDF viewer, Microsoft office and Java are singled out); patch operating system vulnerabilities; minimize the number of users with administrative access to systems (while making sure that your BOFH doesn't use an admin account for e-mail and browsing); and whitelist your applications.
Hackers uploaded to the Internet Friday (Manila time) the court documents of at least eight cases against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
In messages on its Twitter account, hacker group TeaMp0isoN also hinted it will soon leak details of cases against President Barack Obama.
"[Eight] Court Cases against @SarahPalinUSA that have been whitewashed," it said.
The supposed data about the cases against Palin were uploaded to Pastie.org.
A later tweet said "the next bunch of cases that will be leaked will be related to Obama."
The TeaMp0isoN group had been in a rivalry of sorts with Lulz Security, which had also hacked into many government and corporate websites.
Last June, the group vowed to reveal the identities of Lulz Security members, who TeaMp0isoN said were "nothing but a bunch of script kiddies."
In messages on its Twitter account, hacker group TeaMp0isoN also hinted it will soon leak details of cases against President Barack Obama.
"[Eight] Court Cases against @SarahPalinUSA that have been whitewashed," it said.
The supposed data about the cases against Palin were uploaded to Pastie.org.
A later tweet said "the next bunch of cases that will be leaked will be related to Obama."
The TeaMp0isoN group had been in a rivalry of sorts with Lulz Security, which had also hacked into many government and corporate websites.
Last June, the group vowed to reveal the identities of Lulz Security members, who TeaMp0isoN said were "nothing but a bunch of script kiddies."
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Men stand on top of an armoured Egyptian Army vehicle during a protest in Cairo January 29, 2011.
Men stand on top of an armoured Egyptian Army vehicle during a protest in Cairo January 29, 2011.
Analysts and activists say the clashes, which lasted for several hours on Saturday night and injured scores of people, mark a deterioration in a relationship that has come under mounting strain in recent weeks.
Several thousand activists from a spectrum of political groups had organised the march to press the military council to speed up trials of officials accused of killing 850 demonstrators during the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, former president, this year.
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Gatluak Gai
Gatluak Gai
- SSLA rebels claim SPLA involved in Gatluak Gai's murder
- South Sudan army (SPLA) deny involvement in Gatluak Gai's killing
Citizens and officials from the area told Sudan Tribune that Colonel Gatluak Gai was shot dead on Saturday morning along with some of his bodyguards after a group of people opened fire on him at Pakur where his forces have been temporarily assembled.
Phillip Aguer, the SPLA spokesperson confirmed Gatluak's death, accusing the latter's deputy, Marko Chuol Ruei for allegedly opening killing the former rebel leader after disagreement within the rebel camp.
"As you are aware, the government of Unity state entered into an agreement with Gatluak Gai and his forces leading to the signing of a peace agreement just three days ago. But two days later, differences began emerging within the rebel camps, whereby some soldiers led by Gatluak started disrespecting this peace deal," Aguer told Sudan Tribune by phone.
Pakistan should review its policy regarding the so called American war on terrorism in Afghanistan. Pakistan should think about her friendship with US that how much US is sincere with Pakistan after the arrest of Dr Fai.
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Ghulam Nabi Fai
Ghulam Nabi Fai
They said that it is need of hour to get out of the American war against the terrorism and think about the security and sovereignty of the country.
They said that after defeated in Afghanistan America want to sabotage the independence movement of Kashmir.
Iran's parliamentary speaker has accused Israel and the United States of assassinating a scientist with possible links to the country's nuclear programme.
Darioush Rezainejad's death at the hands of motorcycle-riding gunmen prompted speculation that a violent and covert campaign to slow Iran's development of nuclear materials was again underway.
The 35-year old scientist was shot dead outside a kindergarten in east Tehran where he had gone to pick up his daughter. Mr Rezainejad's wife was wounded in the attack before the motorcyclists sped away.
The method of execution bore similarities to a spate of killings and attempted killings of Iranian nuclear scientists last year that involved assassins on motorcycles.
Ali Larijani, the hawkish speaker of the Iranian parliament, was quick to apportion blame.
"The American-Zionist terrorist attack yesterday against one of the country's scientists is yet another sign of the Americans' degree of animosity," he told MPs.
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Daryoosh Rezainejad was killed in Tehran
Daryoosh Rezainejad was killed in Tehran
The 35-year old scientist was shot dead outside a kindergarten in east Tehran where he had gone to pick up his daughter. Mr Rezainejad's wife was wounded in the attack before the motorcyclists sped away.
The method of execution bore similarities to a spate of killings and attempted killings of Iranian nuclear scientists last year that involved assassins on motorcycles.
Ali Larijani, the hawkish speaker of the Iranian parliament, was quick to apportion blame.
"The American-Zionist terrorist attack yesterday against one of the country's scientists is yet another sign of the Americans' degree of animosity," he told MPs.
President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both congressional Democrats and Republicans. Part of it calls for lowering personal and corporate income tax rates, while eliminating or reducing an array of popular tax breaks, such as the deduction for home mortgage interest. Some Democratic lawmakers expressed outrage on Thursday because the Obama-Boehner agreement appears to violate their pledge not to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, as well as Obama's promise not to make deep cuts in programs for the poor without extracting some tax concessions from the rich. We're joined by economist Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and author of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.
