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17 May, 2013
Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to a total of six years in prison. Members Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam had been charged with attacks on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Sony, Nintendo, 20th Century Fox and governments and police forces in a 50-day spree in the summer of 2011.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Intellectual Property,
Privacy
15 May, 2013
Mozilla has just dropped Firefox 21 for Windows, OS X, Linux and Android. Significant changes can one expect upon downloading and installing Firefox 21? Well first and foremost, there are now three Do Not Track options: “Do Track,” “Do Not Track,” and “no preference.” Also bundled into the release is an all-new startup suggestion system allowing users to help streamline the app startup time
Labels:
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability,
Privacy
A group of security researchers in Germany found some suspicious traffic on their web servers after a Skype instant messaging session. After a single experiment, they concluded that Microsoft is snooping on its customers. But a closer look at the facts suggests that this is a well-documented security feature at work.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Cybersafety,
Privacy,
research
According to Budget 2013 papers, the government will achieve savings of $4.5m over three years by not proceeding with mandatory filtering legislation, a move announced in November. The plan would have forced ISPs to filter web pages that contain refused classification-rated content based on a government blacklist. Instead, major internet service providers will be required to block child abuse websites on Interpol's 'worst of' child abuse list, in accordance with their obligations under the Telecommunications Act 1997
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Education,
Ethical,
History,
ICT Capability,
Privacy,
research,
Sustainability
14 May, 2013
Samsung says it has successfully tested super-fast 5G wireless technology that would eventually allow users to download an entire movie in a matter of seconds. The South Korean electronics giant said the test had resulted in data transmission of more than one gigabit per second (Gbps) over a distance of two kilometres.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
ICT Capability,
research
13 May, 2013
The Indian government's cyber watchdog is investigating how security at two companies that are part of the country's vast IT services industry was breached in a global ATM heist that saw $45 million stolen from two banks in the Middle East.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability,
Privacy
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