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August 2009 Blog Posts (6)

What's in your wallet?

U.S. payment-card industry grapples with security

Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:06pm EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the U.S. credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.

While both companies say their computer networks met the tough new standards meant to prevent data breaches, Visa Inc said… Continue

Added by Blaine Transue on August 26, 2009 at 7:57am — No Comments

Jessica Biel tops list as most risky star in cyberspace

Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:34pm ED

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee Inc.

For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed which A-list celebrity was the riskiest to track on the Internet after Pitt topped the list last year and Paris Hilton came in first in 2007.

Biel, 27, who shot to fame in the TV show "7th Heaven" and most… Continue

Added by Blaine Transue on August 26, 2009 at 7:50am — No Comments

Coming back, How are You?, Stories to Tell

Hi everyone,

Getting back in the groove and would love to see people. Many adventures this summer- 3 continents in 6 weeks, lots of learning.

We launched a mobile payments company in Peru (kudos to Wired Sonoma members Brodie Giles for his stellar film work, and to Wired Sonoma member Rob Diebold for his bilingual documentation.

Gave a talk in Istanbul that was supposed to be on social media (it's… Continue

Added by Christine Mason McCaull on August 19, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

US court tells Microsoft to stop selling Word

The patent infringement suit involves Microsoft's use of XML.

By Stuart Turton, 12 Aug 2009 at 12:22

Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word in the US, after finding itself on the wrong end of patent infringement suit.

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sided with technology company i4i, which alleged that Microsoft had willfully infringed a patent relating to the creation of custom XML documents.

The software giant… Continue

Added by Blaine Transue on August 14, 2009 at 7:11am — No Comments

Manage Your Facebook Friends

Interesting article

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Manage_Your_Facebook_Friends

Added by Blaine Transue on August 4, 2009 at 3:01pm — No Comments

In the Future, there will be no secrets, 1f

Two researchers from Israeli security firm Radware have worked out a way to trick computers into downloading malware or take over a computer by hijacking the communications during the update process for Skype and other applications.

About 100 applications can be targeted, said Itzik Kotler, team leader of Radware's security operations center, before his presentation at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas.

Kotler and colleague Tomer Bitton are releasing a tool called Ippon… Continue

Added by Blaine Transue on August 4, 2009 at 1:52pm — No Comments