After Iran strike, Israel gets cyber unit – United Press International
This stems from the ground-breaking use of the highly sophisticated Stuxnet computer virus against Iran, a strike widely attributed to Israel. The attack was detected in the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, 160 miles south of …
Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section (Megan Garber/Nieman Journalism Lab)
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section — When Google News launched in 2002, it did so with some declarations: “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.” And: “No humans were harmed or even used in the creation [...]
Head of phishing ring gets 12 years in prison for scamming 38K victims – Digitaltrends.com
Have you ever received an email pretending to be a bank or credit card company? A California man received a sizable prison sentence today for sending those emails and bilking victims out of their money. That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today …
Head of phishing ring gets 12 years in prison for scamming 38K victims – YAHOO!
That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today for his role in designing websites to mock financial institutions and using those sites to scam over 38,000 victims. He worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email …
Artist Gets Secret Service Visit Over Apple Store Webcam Spying – PC Magazine
McDonald took the photos and posted them on a Tumblr blog called “People Staring at Computers.” He told Mashable that he got permission from Apple security guards to take photos in the store, but it’s unclear if they were aware that McDonald also meant …
Man Gets 13 Years for Phishing, Pot Scheme – PC Magazine
Los Angeles native Kenneth Joseph Lucas II, 27, was sentenced to 13 years in jail for operating an international bank phishing scam and a marijuana grow house. According to PC World , Lucas was one of the brains behind 2009′s Phish Phry, in which he …
Answers.com Gets Gutted By Its New Owner: Massive Layoffs, CEO And CTO Out (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Answers.com Gets Gutted By Its New Owner: Massive Layoffs, CEO And CTO Out — AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners, is axing the majority of people working for Q&A site Answers.com parent company Answers Corporation, which it acquired earlier this year for $127 million in cash.
Computer expert gets strict bail on G20 explosives charges – Globe and Mail
The 38-year-old security analyst and self-described computer geek was granted bail Wednesday after almost a year in custody. He faces charges of possessing chemicals used to make triacetone triperoxide, a chemical commonly associated with suicide bombing …
Andy Rubin gets Danger back together at Google to work on Android hardware (Seth Weintraub/Fortune)
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:Andy Rubin gets Danger back together at Google to work on Android hardware — Cell phone hardware innovators are gathering at Google. That could mean big changes for Android. — Joe Britt at Google I/O — FORTUNE — Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt, two legendary figures in mobile phone development …
DOJ gets court permission to attack botnet – PC Advisor
The US Department of Justice and US Federal Bureau of Investigation have obtained a temporary restraining order allowing them to disrupt a computer virus that created an international botnet controlling more than 2.3 million computers as of early 2010.
