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poorly developed and puts users at risk of having their computers compromised, a security expert who examined the code said on Thursday.
The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an antipornography campaign that many China experts see as a harbinger of a broader crackdown on freedom of expression and dissent.
There's not really any doubt that Green Dam is ripping off CyberSitter.... Last night, for the first time ever, Solid Oak suffered "server problems" so severe the machines had to be rebooted. While DiPasquale shied away from claiming a Chinese attack on the company, she said, "we suspect there's something being done. We've never had a problem until last night...."
"We have found that the English version of google.com has spread lots of pornographic, lewd and vulgar content, which is in serious violation of Chinese laws and regulations," said foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a news briefing. He said authorities summoned Google representatives and told them to "remove the material immediately." [HAHAHAHAHAHA]
Hackers broke into the computers of the Oregon University System and posted a message telling President Barack Obama to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election. The message, which asserted there was no cheating in the election, was up for 90 minutes before technicians took it down Wednesday morning. The hackers apparently took advantage of third-party software that had not been properly updated... The text, in red on a black background... [YUCK! Why not make it FLASHING as well!]
A New Jersey man described as an Internet radio talk show host and blogger was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill three U.S. Appeals Court judges in Chicago who earlier this month upheld a law banning handguns.
In a move that could disrupt Google's growth in China, which now has more internet users than the US, the Chinese government said it had told Google to suspend foreign searches and a feature that automatically suggests multiple search results once typing commences in the search window.
The Beijing government's Spiritual Civilization Office says it is trying to recruit 10,000 volunteers to monitor net content. It's part of a plan of "purifying social civilization," said spokesman Ms. Guo... Meanwhile Chinese youth mock the Green Dam program, kidding each other that if they don't behave, "I'll youth-escort you." Anti-Green Dam websites and petitions are popular. And a Manga-style cartoon mocking the thought police has appeared: Green Dam Girl....
There was a time when American capitalists would have strongly protested totalitarian censorship, but that was before they became complicit in it. Moral indignation once again loses out to global profits... The best I found was a Dell spokesman saying they were "reviewing" the issue... When the Chinese people show themselves to love freedom more than American CEOs, there clearly is a problem. And it isn't in China....
wove a tale for two months about being an unmarried mother who chose to carry her child who is now terminally ill to term rather than have an abortion because of her deep Christian faith... posted her story on a blog that got nearly a million hits until one of her followers exposed the lie last week....
One of the Chinese developers of the "Green Dam" filtering software pledged to patch the software's vulnerabilities, while intimating that he may take legal action against the authors of a U.S. report that discovered them. [BWAH HAHAHAHAHHA]
some of the blacklists the software uses to filter sites was taken from U.S.-based Solid Oak Software, maker of Cybersitter... It wasn't just that "blacklisted" URL addresses appeared to be copied directly from Cybersitter; "a news item, almost like a press release that Cybersitter sent to customers was included in the shipping version of Green Dam software," Halderman said. "It appeared to be copied into Green Dam by mistake."...
Several foreign news organisations complained Sunday that Iranian authorities were blocking their reporters from covering protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
"... the heat generated from laptops can impact sperm production and development making it difficult to conceive down the road."... Other tips to protect male fertility... Avoid hot tubs... [Isn't all this old news?]
Despite China's claims that Green Dam Youth Escort... is merely a porn filter, it's now clear that the software filters a whole bunch of political content.... [OH, WHAT A SURPRISE!] ... The documents related to political stuff are very big — much, much bigger than those related to pornographic content... software also appears to communicate with a centralized server...
The first independent tests of screening software that will be installed on all Chinese computers finds it opens users to serious security risks.... communications between the software and the servers at the company that developed the program were unencrypted.... "...every computer in China potentially as part of a botnet..." system only runs on Microsoft Windows, allowing Mac and Linux users to bypass the software.... at least 3m computer users have already downloaded the software, opening them up to potential security problems.
spokesman for China's Ministry of Industry and Information Industry saying that users will have a choice whether to install the filtering software... [Right! Same choice you always get under tyranny. Install it or ELSE!!!]
FTC says company actively recruited and colluded with criminals seeking to distribute everything from child pornography to spyware and viruses... FTC also alleges that the defendant engaged in the deployment and operation of botnets.... advertised its services in the darkest corners of the Internet, including a forum established to facilitate communication between criminals.... Pricewert, based in San Jose, California, shielded its criminal clientele by either ignoring take-down requests issued by the online security community or shifting its criminal elements to other Internet Protocol addresses it controlled to evade detection, the FTC said...
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said that it had shut down a rogue Internet service provider that knowingly hosted and actively distributed child pornography, malware, and spam... Symantec identified more than 600 IP addresses controlled by 3FN that had launched malicious attacks.... The FTC said it had identified more than 4,500 malicious programs directed by the command-and-control servers hosted by 3FN.
Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the twentieth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square... "If anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long...."
A Nielsen Co. report found unlimited texting plans offered by wireless carriers have sent U.S. teens on a messaging spree, sending and receiving an average of 2,272 texts per month, more than double the amount from a year earlier. Physicians said all the texting is causing anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation among teenagers.
Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution.
CONNEAUT — City administrators have sent a letter to a local Website operator, ordering her to remove information related to municipal offices.... Ward 1 Councilman Dave Campbell, who has promoted the Web site, was outraged by the letter, calling it "garbage. We cannot dictate how she runs her business...."
US government officials are concerned that the quality of the Global Positioning System (GPS) could begin to deteriorate as early as next year, resulting in regular blackouts and failures — or even dishing out inaccurate directions to millions of people worldwide. The warning centres on the network of GPS satellites that constantly orbit the planet and beam signals back to the ground that help pinpoint your position on the Earth's surface. The satellites are overseen by the US Air Force, which has maintained the GPS network since the early 1990s. According to a study by the US government accountability office (GAO), mismanagement and a lack of investment means that some of the crucial GPS satellites could begin to fail as early as next year.
terror groups were using popular social networking Web sites like Facebook to recruit, and possibly kidnap, Israeli citizens.
You can run, but you cannot hide ... and if you try, one push of a button will cause a lethal poison to immediately begin flowing through your body. That's the Orwellian future a Saudi inventor was seeking to bring to Germany until that nation's patent office announced last week it was rejecting his request to patent what has been dubbed the "Killer Chip."
Nimzay Aponte met Raymond Dennis via AOL, but ultimately refused to meet him face to face. He responded by stabbing her in broad daylight as she sat with a friend, William Sherief, on a park bench in the Bronx... died a short time after the Tuesday afternoon attack - but not before she gave police a dying declaration: "Mike did it." ...
Hackers have broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration several times in recent years.... compromised an FAA public-facing computer and used it to gain access to personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, on 48,000 current and former FAA employees....
A convicted Swedish hacker stands accused of cracking the security of NASA and Cisco in 2004. After a federal investigation, the 21-year-old man now faces multiple charges here in the United States.
Michael Woodworth, a forensic psychologist at UBC Okanagan studying deception in computer-mediated environments, says offering up a fib in person might make you provide certain signals that you're trying to deceive, but lying online avoids the physical cues that can give you away.... a growing number of individuals are falling prey to deceptive practices and information received through computer mediated contexts such as the Internet "By learning more about how various factors affect detecting deceit in online communication, our research will certainly have important implications in organizational contexts, both legal and illegal, in the political domain, and in family life as more and more children go online...."
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