Stories by Tim Greene

Security researcher feels the wrath of Anonymous

Wikileaks defenders Anonymous are firing both barrels at a security researcher who promised to name people in the group. Aaron Barr vowed he’d expose organizers of the online activist group Anonymous next week, but in response Anonymous hacked his Twitter account, broke into his company network and posted more than 44,000 of the company’s e-mails.They also posted his home address, phone number and Social Security number on his Twitter page.

Written by Tim Greene08 Feb. 11 10:42

Financial firm fined $25M for hiding software glitch that cost investors $217M

An investment fund that hid flaws in a computer application that set the fund's strategy for making trades has agreed to pay a <a href="http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-37.htm">$25 million SEC fine</a> and pay back $217 million in losses suffered by investors because of the problem.

Written by Tim Greene05 Feb. 11 09:30

Hacker steals 400 billion virtual poker chips from Facebook game

An English hacker has admitted he stole 400 billion virtual poker chips worth somewhere between $US285,000 and $12 million in actual dollars from a popular online game, then sold some of them for cash on Facebook.

Written by Tim Greene05 Feb. 11 08:26

Cloud services could bolster national cyber security

The shift to cloud computing offers an opportunity to better secure the national digital infrastructure by concentrating the burden of cyber security among a relatively small number of service providers rather than thousands of individual businesses, according to a report by a foreign policy think tank.

Written by Tim Greene03 Feb. 11 02:33

Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed

A Web hack that can endanger online banking transactions is ranked the No. 1 new Web hacking technique for 2010 in a top 10 list selected by a panel of experts and open voting.

Written by Tim Greene25 Jan. 11 03:08

Public cloud services can provide useful tools for criminals

Buying public cloud services passwords as demonstrated this week at the Black Hat D.C. conference is not the only malicious use these computational and storage resources might offer, according to one security expert.

Written by Tim Greene20 Jan. 11 07:05

Library system dumps MPLS with cheaper DSL, cable services

The Sno-Isle, Wash., public library system expects to save $400,000 this year by yanking its MPLS network and replacing it with multiple, less expensive broadband connections that include consumer DSL, cable service and even dark fiber.

Written by Tim Greene19 Jan. 11 03:44

Court papers name Akamai tipster in insider-trading investigation

Federal court papers name a former <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091610-akamai-ipv6.html">Akamai Technologies</a> employee who allegedly revealed insider information to stock traders who were later charged with reaping millions of dollars from the information in what the FBI calls the largest hedge fund insider-trading case in history.

Written by Tim Greene12 Jan. 11 11:38

Apple Mac App Store has piracy vulnerability

Careless coding and a lax review process by Apple could make it pretty simple to steal certain select applications from the brand new Mac App Store that launched yesterday. 

Written by Tim Greene08 Jan. 11 08:59

Vidyo to show off mobile-to-mobile videoconferencing at CES

Vidyo will demonstrate today an Internet videoconference among six types of mobile devices made by multiple manufacturers in an effort to show how flexible its core VidyoConferencing platform can be for creating business meetings among personal devices.

Written by Tim Greene07 Jan. 11 03:42
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