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Man who hijacked HBO’s satellite signal 30 years ago would face far different fate today

April 28, 2016/in Internet Security

On April 27, 1986, a Florida man with workplace access to a satellite transmission dish – and a financial beef with HBO — pulled off the kind of audacious stunt that were it to happen today would likely land him in prison for a long, long time.

From a 2011 Buzzblog post:

John MacDougall, then 25, was the lonely pamphleteer of lore, only instead of paper and ink he was armed with a 30-foot transmission dish, an electronic keyboard, and a burning objection to HBO’s decision in 1986 to begin scrambling its satellite signal and charging viewers $ 12.95 a month.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Expert: Comprehensive software security for cars will take years

March 30, 2016/in Mobile Security

Software security for automobiles is improving but it will take another three or four years until manufacturers can put overarching security architecture in place, says Stefan Savage, winner of the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

“We’re at a point where the industry has to recognize that this is a real issue for them,” says Savage, a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

+ MORE CAR SECURITY: Car hackers urge you to patch your Chrysler, Ram, Durango, or Jeep +

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Network World Tim Greene

The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years – Network World

March 28, 2016/in Computer Security

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The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years
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We have seen some spectacular successes and some incredible flame-outs. In 30 years the tech industry has seen many such transformations from companies such as IBM and Cisco to Nortel (remember them?) to technologies like SNA and Token Ring to …

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30 years ago: A look back at Microsoft’s IPO

March 15, 2016/in Internet Security

As we adjust to having turned the clocks ahead yesterday, let’s take a look back at Microsoft’s initial public stock offering 30 years ago. On the public company’s 25^th anniversary, I put together the post you’ll see below. The story hasn’t changed.

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It’s Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft, founded more than a decade earlier and already a powerhouse in the world of personal computer software, executes an initial public stock offering that will raise $ 61 million for the company and leave 30-year-old co-founder Bill Gates unfathomably wealthy.

If you had the good fortune to have bought 100 shares at the $ 21 offering price that day and sat on the investment for 25 years, it would have mushroomed into 28,800 shares over the course of nine stock splits and be worth about three quarters of a million dollars today (Editor’s note: Again, that was as of 2011).

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Network World Paul McNamara

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