After a communications glitch the New York Stock Exchange was forced to close 4 minutes early last Wednesday (1 June): The New York Stock Exchange is re-examining its network after it was forced to close four minutes early at 3:56pm on Wednesday (1 June) because of a communications glitch. Trading opened on time (09:30 EDT) [...]
Entries from June 8th, 2005
UK Hacker In Deep Shit
June 8th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Paranormal, Security
The BBC reports of a UK hacker who’s about to be extradited to the US on some serious charges: A British man who allegedly hacked into US military and Nasa computer networks has been arrested, say Scotland Yard. Gary McKinnon, 39, of Wood Green, north London, faces extradition proceedings over claims he hacked into 53 [...]
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Weapons Spending Tops $1 Trillion
June 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, News
An alarming story at the BBC reports that worldwide arms spending has for the first time ever hit the $1 trillion mark: Spending on weapons around the world topped $1 trillion (£560bn) for the first time in 2004, a new report says. A study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) found that countries [...]
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The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
June 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Crime
The BBC reports of a secretary who lived the good life by stealing 4 million pounds from the company she was working at: Now a new BBC drama documentary tells the extraordinary story of the Goldman Sachs secretary who stole £4.5m from her bosses, and spent it all on a lavish lifestyle of diamonds, designer [...]
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Tokyo Geek Walhalla
June 8th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Anime, Cool Geeky Stuff
The Washington post has written an article on Tokyo’s infamous Akihabara district, where Japanese geeks can be themselves. Excerpt: TOKYO At his favorite neighborhood cafe, Shunsuke Yamagata, a college student who proudly calls himself a nerd, smiled shyly behind his horn-rimmed glasses at waitresses hurrying about in black Minnie Mouse shoes and lacy, racy mini-dresses [...]
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Attack Trends: 2004 and 2005 – According to Schneier
June 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Mr. Schneier has written a piece on his blog about the kind of attacks his company has monitored this past year: Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., monitors more than 450 networks in 35 countries, in every time zone. In 2004 we saw 523 billion network events, and our analysts investigated 648,000 security “tickets.” What follows is [...]
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Apple to switch from IBM to Intel :-(
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
In some shocking news Apple has decided to stop using IBM powerPC chips, and wants to switch over to Intel in the future: Apple has used IBM’s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel’s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the [...]
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Play Videos On Your iPod!
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Looks like the iPodLinux have done what Apple couldn’t (or doesn’t want to) do. They’ve added video support to the iPod. The video player from the iPodLinux project will do 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files at iPod-native screen resolution only. You can download the binaries and the test video via the Read link. Demonstration video can [...]
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Bluetooth Easily Crackable
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Security
Bruce Schneier has written a piece on how trivial it is to control a Bluetooth device, as the secret “key” it uses to connect to another device is only 4 digits long (ie, VERY easy to brute force on any laptop): There’s a new cryptographic result against Bluetooth. Yaniv Shaked and Avishai Wool of Tel [...]
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Google Doesn’t Forget
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Privacy
CNN has an interesting article on how long Google hangs on to the stuff they log from you (read indefinately): WASHINGTON (Reuters) — When Google Inc.’s 19 million daily users look up a long-lost classmate, send e-mail or bounce around the Web more quickly with its new Web Accelerator, records of that activity don’t go [...]
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