French anti-piracy group’s new logo discovered to be… pirated:
“The French agency tasked with enforcing strict anti-piracy regulations has been left severely embarrassed after the revelation that its logo contains pirated material.”
“Panasonic begins a migration off Microsoft Exchange to IBM’s LotusLive cloud service. More than 100,000 employees will participate in the initial migration effort expanding to a total of more than 300,000 employees and external partners globally.”
“After working with the vendors long enough, we’ve come to conclusion that, to put it simply, it is a waste of time. Now, we do not contact with vendors and do not support so-called ‘responsible disclosure’ policy,” Legerov said.”
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Acer recalls apx. 22,000 Acer Aspire laptops due to fire/burn hazard:
“An internal microphone wire under the palm rest can short circuit and overheat. This poses a potential burn hazard to consumers.”
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Carriers and ISPs fear rise in DDoS attacks in 2010:
“With applications on cloud services, any security breaches are visible for all to see so businesses can no longer attempt to cover up any hacks. We’ve seen attacks like this take on a political nature recently, such as on Twitter or the Estonian and Georgian attacks of 2007,” he said.
The report also uncovered grave concerns about the move from IPv4 to IPv6. Many companies are worried that a “perfect storm” is arising because they are not ready for the move, and admit to a lack of testing and deployment experience that could lead to vulnerabilities.”
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EMC doubles density of Clariion, Celerra storage systems:
“Atac-Barrett said the new 2TB 5,400-rpm SATA drives also consume 60% less power than the previous 1TB 7,200-rpm SATA drives.”
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British ISP knocked offline by Latvian DDOS:
“About 30,000 customers of the Cheshire-based ISP Vispa were forced offline for almost 12 hours today by a DDOS attack traced to the Baltic state of Latvia. Broadband service has now been restored, a spokesman said, but customers are unable to call customer service because the firm’s phone system was also crippled by the attack. “As a result of a major denial of service attack on our network we suffered a severe outage between 1am and 12.30pm Friday January 8,” Vispa commercial director Adam Binks said.”
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Google investigates China staff over cyber attack:
“It is thought the line of inquiry is a routine part of its investigation into the attack, which Google says was sophisticated, originated in China and targeted intellectual property and the email accounts of human rights activists. According to Reuters news agency, citing two unidentified sources, the attack, which targeted people with access to specific parts of Google networks, might have been helped by employees in the company’s offices in China. It has several hundred staff on the mainland… Chinese media have said that some Google China employees were denied access to internal networks following the statement, with others put on leave or transferred to different offices. Google said it would not comment on its business operations.”
A decent summary of the Google-China cyber espionage saga – FAQ
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Microsoft ‘sorry’ for volume licensing website problems:
“Microsoft has apologised to its partners and customers who have struggled with the firm’s volume licensing website, after the company overhauled its service. As reported last month, Microsoft’s volume licensing websites were yanked offline for over a week while the software giant tweaked its service in a move to “improve the licensing management experience” for the firm’s users. Sadly for MS, even though a shiny new web portal has been created, many of its customers and partners are still complaining about the vendor’s volume licensing site, which is currently locking many users out of the system because of a registration error.”
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Y2K10 bugs surface: Cisco, Symantec, and Apache.
bugs also hits millions of Germans, software problem in credit and debit cards.
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Researcher exposes Google spyware connections:
“According to Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and a staunch anti-spyware advocate, Google is charging advertisers for what he described as “conversion-inflation” traffic from the WhenU spyware program. Edelman’s expose includes several screenshots, video, and packet log to show that WhenU continues to cover web sites with PPC popups. Crucially, those popups show Google ads — often promoting the very same sites users are already browsing.”
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RIM debuts BlackBerry PowerPoint Presenter; present without your computer:
“The device can store up to 100 slides of a presentation, which it can display through any projector or TV that can connect to a VGA or S-Video source. Almost any BlackBerry handset can serve as a remote. It will be available later this year for $200.”
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The new Droid apparently doesn’t have the ability to add an auto-signature to an Exchange account.
Think people want the ability to have an auto signature on their Droids? There are thousands of comments like this on Google, Motorola and Verizon message boards. Pretty appalling oversight.
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Roundup: Q9 Networks, Cisco, IBM:
“Cisco to Power NBC’s Olympic HD Coverage, IBM Provides Modular Server Room with India Bank… The deal is expected to enable KUCB to save nearly 75% on resource allocation costs., Q9 Networks selected by Canadian Automobile Association. Toronto based Q9 Networks announced that it was selected by the Canadian Automobile Association South Central Ontario to provide a comprehensive data center colocation solution.”
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On this day in tech history…
January 20th 1985 – The Apple “Lemmings commercial” was first aired.
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