Telephone Banking Scam
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley
warned the public about an automated phone call scam targeting
victims' bank accounts.
Anyone who received such a call is advised to
provide no information and to contact their bank's customer service
department via a land-line telephone, in person or via a secure Internet
connection. The recorded message will claim to be from major banks and asking to provide some sort of verification of bank account information, including credit card and debit card numbers, along with PIN numbers.
Stratfor Hacked
Hacker group Anonymous have infiltrated the servers of Austin-based global intelligence service Stratfor. The group posted credit card numbers, names and addresses online; it says belongs to 4000 Stratfor's customers. The client list includes employees of Bank of America, the US Military and the Houston Police Department. Stratfor informed the media they will be contacting its subscribers and offering them a free identity protection service.
21,000 Domains Transferred From GoDaddy in 1 Day
An anti-Go Daddy thread on social site Reddit led to the creation of Godaddyboycott.org, a site set up to let people amass their disapproval with the company's support of SOPA. Yesterday, Go Daddy actually reversed course and dropped its support for the controversial legislation. "Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it," Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman announced in a statement. SOPA, introduced in Congress this fall, would make it easier for the Justice Department to shut down sites allegedly dedicated to piracy.
GoDaddy Boycott Launched By Anti-SOPA
Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) launch a boycott against domain name registrar GoDaddy, which expresses its strong support of the controversial legislation. The boycott movement basically asked their supporter to transfer their domains to another registrar. While Silicon Valley firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter
overwhelmingly oppose SOPA on the grounds that it will usher in
unprecedented censorship online, suffocate innovation, and endanger the
domain name system (DNS) upon which the Internet is built, GoDaddy
brushes aside all these arguments, and claims that the bill is needed to
“identify and disable all types of illegal activity on the Internet.”
UK's New Cyber Crime Unit
UK government announces a new measure to tackle cyber crime as Britain's internet and electronic communications network comes under increased attack from hackers and foreign intelligence agencies. A Cyber Crime Unit will be formed alongside a team at the intelligence agency GCHQ which will fine-tune the country's military capabilities in the virtual world. According to the government, more than 20,000 malicious emails are sent
to its networks each month, of which 1,000 are deliberately targeted. The GCHQ is expected to help by assisting private companies shore up their cyber defences.
Silent Update For Internet Explorer
Microsoft will begin pushing "silent" updates to its Internet Explorer
(IE) browser to ensure users are deploying the newest versions of the
browser. Users will no longer get a pop-up prompt to then update the
browser with security patches and other updates.
Enterprises aren't bound by Microsoft's new automatic update feature. They can opt out of the silent updates if they prefer to time their own browser updates. They can deploy the Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 Automatic Update Blocker toolkits, which stop automatic upgrades of IE. For those users who had already declined previous installations of IE8 or IE9 through Windows Update won't get pushed the silent updates.
Enterprises aren't bound by Microsoft's new automatic update feature. They can opt out of the silent updates if they prefer to time their own browser updates. They can deploy the Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 Automatic Update Blocker toolkits, which stop automatic upgrades of IE. For those users who had already declined previous installations of IE8 or IE9 through Windows Update won't get pushed the silent updates.
Google 300000 Square Foot Hong Kong Data Center
Google said the data center will be staffed by 25 full-time local employees, including electrical and mechanical engineers, computer technicians, security and catering staff. The company said the investment represents a new commitment to the region. The data center will help increase user access speed for the company's different online services in Asia.
