July 12, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
There’s good news and bad news for the Brazilian banker whose computer drives may hold valuable evidence in the case against him: The prosecutors who are trying to get at the encrypted data can’t crack it — even with the help of the FBI.
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Tags: banker, Brazilian, Daniel Dantas, encryption, FBI, hack, TrueCrypt
July 6, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
You’d think a 27-character password would be secure, but the recent arrest of some suspected Russian spies is a cautionary tale in security operations.
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Tags: espionage, file transfer, password, ring, Russians
June 18, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Talk about piling on! The music industry’s battle with online file sharing has reached a new level of hostility with a fresh round of lawsuits against the popular online site, LimeWire, and an appeal to shut down the site completely. But can you really blame the recording industry and its accountants?
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Tags: District Court, Kimba Wood, lawfuit, LimeWire, New York, Recording Industry Association of America
April 6, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
While e-mail and online document exchange have undoubtedly hurt the U.S. Postal Service, the agency’s recent proposal to eliminate Saturday deliveries and raise rates has the potential to inflict a significant blow to a giant online business:
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Tags: movie rentals, Netflix, Post Office, rates, Saturday
March 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The most common type of malicious e-mail attachment is the also the most common file you might find clinging to an electronic message: the ordinary XLS or DOC file. But the most dangerous kind of attachment isn’t either of those.
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Tags: e-mail, file types, malware, Message Labs report, Symantec
January 28, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
When a judge recently reduced the $1.92 million in damages from a jury verdict against a Minnesota woman accused of illegally sharing 24 songs, music pirates everywhere breathed a small sigh of relief.
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Tags: file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tenenbaum, jury verdict, music
January 19, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Well, it seems somewhat official: The Nexus One smartphone didn’t land much of a blow against its arch-rival from Apple, the iPhone.
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Tags: Android, Apple, fiasco, Google, iphone, Nexus One, smartphone
December 28, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
If you believe the folks at security firm Kaspersky Lab (and you probably should, since their prediction for 2009 was accurate) you’ll find next year’s big threat by following the users.
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Tags: 2010, botnets, Kaspersky Labs, malware, prediction, threats, viruses
November 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
A flood of bad publicity surrounding the shutdown of free WiFi service in the tiny Ohio town of Coshocton has apparently resulted in the service being reinstated — for now.
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Tags: access, Coshocton, free, Motion Picture Association of America, Ohio, Sony, WiFi
November 16, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Okay, that recent story here on FinanceTechNews about how there’s no such thing as free WiFi was kind of a lie. There really was some free WiFi out there, but it doesn’t exist anymore.
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Tags: access, connection, Coshocton, free, Motion Picture Association of America, municipal, Ohio, OneCommunity, Sony Pictures, WiFi
