A Kansas man was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison "for selling $1 million worth of counterfeit Cisco computer equipment," the US Attorney's office for the District of Kansas said . Timothy Weatherly, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and making false statements to smuggle goods into the United States, related to the operation of a business called Deals Direct in 2005 and 2006. [......]
Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
We heard a while back that Windows 8 would support multi-touch via the trackpad. Sure, there’s some stuff you can do right now, but the promise made by Microsoft and Synaptics has been deferred for the most part. But they’ve put up a video that shows just how you can expect to interact with Windows 8 and Metro using a multi-touch trackpad[......]
Kodak , which has been struggling to make enough money to keep the lights on next year, has sold its image sensor business . [......]
While the online activists, hackers, and others aligned with Anonymous have backed off on their threats of exposing members of the Mexican Zetas drug cartel, at least some of those involved are now taking their campaign forward against other Mexican narcotics organizations. And a North Carolina district attorney has become the first to be named in the new OpCartel "doxxing" campaign[......]
The latest offensive in the content industry's never-ending war on copyright infringement is the Stop Online Piracy Act, which was introduced in the House two weeks ago. [......]
A feature on the White House's website designed to encourage citizens to interact with the administration has become what every very public forum on the Internet eventually becomes: a target for trolls. The "We the People" petition feature of whitehouse.gov , launched in September, is intended as a way for citizens to petition the Obama administration for action on specific topics of concern. Citizens can register an account on the site, and create petitions or sign those of others[......]
Ebook creators are notoriously tight-fisted with their sales stats but today William Lynch, CEO of B&N, announced the company has sold "millions" of devices and said the Nook Color was one of the top selling low-priced tablets, placing the company high in the pantheon of slate device manufacturers. [......]
Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over, doing everything from opening and overloading cell door mechanisms to shutting down internal communications systems. [......]
"Don't panic, people." This Wednesday, November 9, at 2 pm eastern standard time, every TV broadcaster, cable channel, radio station, and satellite radio program from Puerto Rico to Missouri to American Samoa will be interrupted for 30 seconds by the federal government. Don't panic—there's no nuclear strike[......]
A Google patent lawyer says that the patent system is broken, and he accuses Microsoft of abusing the system. Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, Google's Tim Porter pointed to Microsoft's attacks on Linux as an example of its broader corporate strategy. [......]
State v. Hormann , A10-18722 (Minn. [......]
The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage : Two things happened during October: Internet Explorer lost its majority share of the browser market, and here at Ars, Chrome overtook Firefox for the first time ever. [......]
Anonymous IberoAmerica, the Latin American collective within the Anonymous hacktivist group, has called off its operation to expose members of the Zetas narcotics cartel after announcing that a kidnapped Anonymous member was released. The released hostage also reportedly delivered a message: that the Zetas would kill ten people for every name of a Zeta associate released by Anonymous[......]
Looks like it's zero hour, United Kingdom style, for the world's best known BitTorrent file sharing site. BPI, the UK's top music trade group, has asked British Telecom (BT) to start blocking the Pirate Bay, or face a court request. [......]
Climate activists and local residents protest plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK. [......]
