Google’s ‘Bouncer’ Service Aims to Toughen Android Security – New York Times (blog)
V3.co.uk Google's 'Bouncer' Service Aims to Toughen Android SecurityNew York Times (blog)Despite Mr. Lockheimer's assurances, Lookout, an Android security firm, posted a report in December saying that Android malware had doubled since the beginning of July. The company said that using its own malware-detection tools, it found 1000 separate …Google's Bouncer will boost Android securityInquirerBouncer [...]
Israel, Finland and Sweden top for computer security – Financial Times
Israel, Finland and Sweden are judged to be the nations which are most resilient to cyberattacks on their public and private computer systems, according to an in-depth study into cybersecurity published on Monday by a Brussels-based think–tank. “computer security” – Bing News
Hacker Rattles Internet Security Circles (Somini Sengupta/New York Times)
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:Hacker Rattles Internet Security Circles — He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and despises dissidents in his country. — He sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam. “internet security” – [...]
Finding the Cleanup Crew After a Messy Hack Attack – New York Times
Finding the Cleanup Crew After a Messy Hack AttackNew York TimesIn the messy world of computer security breaches, Kevin Mandia is something like the Wolf. Mr. Mandia has spent his entire career cleaning up problems much like the recent breach at Stratfor, the security group based in Austin, Tex., that was hacked …and more » “computer [...]
Norman Krim, Who Championed the Transistor, Dies at 98 (Dennis Hevesi/New York Times)
Dennis Hevesi / New York Times:Norman Krim, Who Championed the Transistor, Dies at 98 — Norman Krim, an electronics visionary who played a pivotal role in the industry’s transition from the bulky electron vacuum tube, which once lined the innards of radios and televisions, to the tiny, far more powerful transistor …
The Internet Gets Physical (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:The Internet Gets Physical — THE Internet likes you, really likes you. It offers you so much, just a mouse click or finger tap away. Go Christmas shopping, find restaurants, locate partying friends, tell the world what you’re up to. Some of the finest minds in computer science …
The Jobs Effect – Hindustan Times (blog)
Hindustan Times (blog) The Jobs EffectHindustan Times (blog)We were in our 20s and so excited by the overnight switch-over from rusty (but trusty too) Remington typewriters to the cute Macs that came with a mouse and keyboard and a laser printer that it did not matter that our management had done something …and more »
Controversy over carrier IQ leading sprint to disable the service – Tehran Times
msnbc.com Controversy over carrier IQ leading sprint to disable the serviceTehran TimesThe recent storm over Carrier IQ, a software installed on more than 150 million smartphones was sparked by a security researcher by the name of Trevor Eckhart, where he posted a 17-minute video a couple of weeks back revealing the use of CIQ that [...]
Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene (Laura M. Holson/New York Times)
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene — SINCE moving to Manhattan three years ago, Sean Parker, a founder of Napster and former president of Facebook, has considerably enlivened New York’s social scene. — The parties at Bacchus House, his mansionlike home in the West Village [...]
In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants (Joichi Ito/New York Times)
Joichi Ito / New York Times:In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants — The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.
