Archive for March, 2013
Hacked PCs Falsify Billions of Ad Clicks
March 20th, 2013Via: Financial Times: Online investigators have exposed a network of hijacked computers that defrauded advertisers by generating billions of fake ad views. The so-called botnet scheme, which hijacked 120,000 residential PCs in the US and cost advertisers millions of dollars a month, highlights the increasing complexity and opacity of online advertising. Spider.io, a London-based start-up […]
U.S. Still Paying Civil War Veterans’ Families
March 20th, 2013Via: CBS / AP: If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat. An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to […]
Top Colorado Official Shot Dead Night Before New Gun Law Signing
March 20th, 2013Via: Reuters: One of Colorado state’s top law enforcement officials was shot and killed at his home Tuesday night, just hours before the governor is scheduled to sign landmark gun control legislation drafted in response to a series of mass shootings. A manhunt was launched by law enforcement officials for the assailant, but no suspects […]
Chase Bank Customers Had Balances Reduced to Zero for Over an Hour on Monday
March 20th, 2013Via: CBS: Chase Bank experienced technical difficulties for over an hour Monday night, worrying customers who logged into their accounts and saw their balance at $0 or were unable to get any access to them at all. A spokesman for the bank said it was strictly an internal technical issue and customers’ accounts were not […]
Amazon and CIA Ink Cloud Deal
March 20th, 2013Via: FCW: In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps […]
South Korea Raises Alert After Hackers Attack Broadcasters, Banks
March 20th, 2013Via: Reuters: South Korean authorities were investigating a hacking attack that brought down the servers of three broadcasters and two major banks on Wednesday, and the army raised its alert level due to concerns of North Korean involvement. Servers at television networks YTN, MBC and KBS were affected as well as Shinhan Bank and NongHyup […]
A Tale of Two Londons
March 20th, 2013Via: Vanity Fair: Who really lives at One Hyde Park, called the world’s most expensive residential building? Its mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens, provide a portrait of the new global super-wealthy.
MoD Flies Emergency Cash to Cyprus for British Personnel
March 19th, 2013Via: BBC: An RAF plane carrying 1m euros is flying to Cyprus from Britain as a “contingency measure” to provide military personnel with emergency loans, the Ministry of Defence said. The money is to be used for British personnel and their families if cash machines and debit cards stop working. … The levy was due […]
Test of Anthrax Vaccine in Children Gets Tentative OK
March 19th, 2013Oh sure. Via: Reuters: A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them. … Under a 2005 law, children […]
Feds Investigating Microsoft, Partners Over Foreign Bribery Claims
March 19th, 2013Via: ZDnet: US federal authorities are reportedly investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving Microsoft and its partners in China, Romania and Italy, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. According to the paper, the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into claims made by a former Microsoft representative in […]
