According to National Nuclear Security Administration head Thomas D’Agostino, the agency has to deal with up to 10 million “significant cyber security events” daily – That’s a huge big number. “They’re from other countries’ [governments], but we also get fairly sophisticated non-state actors as well,” he said. “The [nuclear] labs are under constant attack, the Department of Energy is under constant attack.” “Of the security significant events, less than one hundredth of a...
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London mayor, Boris Johnson has transferred the public Twitter account @mayoroflondon into his own name in order to support his re-election campaign on the mayoral election campaign first day, which results him over grabbing around 253,000 followers from the account, reports BBC. Johnson even replaced the account’s web link to the official city hall city with his...
Its being only two day since Apple announced that it had sold 3 million units of its new iPad since from the time its launch, but what a dazzling news coming up that Chinese media outlets are reporting that some 200,000 grey market devices have been smuggled into Shenzhen, China, reports CUTV and cited by Tech In Asia, the device have been smuggled by imports into the city who has ventured overseas to purchase them. There is also news stating that number of devices among them was transferred over from the US also, where pre-orders and...
It would be surprising at first note when one reads this news and definitely think that how this news make into a tech magazine, stating it before, the news is really something “interesting” that allow it to be a part of our mag – now continuing with the story – Skydiving superstar Felix Baumgartner in an urge to complete a record-breaking 120,000 foot...
Vietnam’s state-owned operators – Vinaphone and MobiFone are to merge in response to new government regulation that limits the influence of investors in the country’s telecom space. The merger still awaits approval of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung while already approved by the country’s Ministry of Information and Communications, reports Reuters. Vietnam...
On the note of taking care of privacy issues and laws, the European Union and the United States announced a new commitment to collaboration on privacy issues and laws at the High Level Conference. The High Level Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held simultaneously in Washington, DC and Brussels with the participation of Vice-President Viviane Reding and Secretary John Bryson, represents an important opportunity to deepen our transatlantic dialogue on commercial data privacy issues. The quote, from the statement released...
The radio program “This American Life” last week retracted an episode critical of working conditions at a Foxconn Chinese factory, saying it had contained “numerous fabrications”. The retracted episode, broadcast on January 6, was based heavily on a one-man theatrical show by actor Mike Daisey: “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” Foxconn over on this said that it had no plans to take any legal action over a US-based radio program about its activity in China, reports Reuters. The executive producer...
In the new orders related to piracy which Indian Court had given last week, the Indian Music Industry consortium is hoping to combat piracy at some certain good extend. The Calcutta High court ordered that all Indian ISPs need to block 104 domains, including the BollywoodMP4.com and FreeIndiaSongs.com, which appear to be local music download sites. The access for...
WikiLeaks has announced that Julian Assange is running for the Australian Senate while under under house arrest in another country. Assange’s case is compared to that of former South African president Nelson Mandela, pointing towards an article and current Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, both imprisoned in their respective countries. As for Assange’s...
The European Commission is questioning five of Europe’s largest telecommunications companies – Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone – whose CEOs met occasionally, beginning in 2010, over concerns that a series of meetings held among them may have constituted collusion. “The requests for information relate to the manner in which standardization for future services in the mobile-communications area is taking place,” a spokesman for EC Competition Chief Joaquin Almunia explained. “These...
