9 March 2012 09:22

Friday 9 March 2012 | 09:51 CET French supercomputing and IT services group Bull has signed an exclusive agreement with an unnamed company to negotiate the sale of the activities of its subsidiary Amesys, relating the Eagle software system. Eagle was designed to build databases supporting lawful interception activities on the internet. Bull sees [...]

Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others

30 January 2012 07:58

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails. The 15 companies will be announcing on Monday DMARC.org, which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance–a system for verifying that e-mails are coming from legitimate companies and not imposters [...]

Pentagon to cut $485bn over next decade

27 January 2012 11:49

By Geoff Dyer in Washington and Jeremy Lemer in New York The US military will cut $485bn from its planned spending over the next decade but will still maintain a larger force than it had before 9/11. After 11 years of significant budget increases, the Pentagon started to outline on Thursday measures to restrain the [...]

Korean school bullies go for free Wi-Fi

24 January 2012 08:04

The New Paper Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 A new form of bullying is taking place in South Korean schools. Victims are forced to subscribe to Wi-Fi access that costs about US$40 (S$50) a month and then turn on the Wi-Fi function on their smartphones, Reuters reported. This allows the bullies to take over the phone’s [...]

Anonymous Asks Twitter Users Which Sites To Hack Next

24 January 2012 08:00

Written by: PanArmenian January 23, 2012 Hacktivist guild Anonymous has taken to Twitter to ask followers for tips on who the group should attack next, The Register reports. Still reeling over the arrest of Megaupload mogul Kim Dotcom, Anonymous posted the following tweet: “Just out of curiosity, what would you like to [...]