http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080920172507606
BBC customers deluged by spam after hackers break into mailing list
Saturday, September 20 2008 @ 05:25 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Names and e-mail addresses on a BBC mailing list were exploited by hackers to send "spam", or unwanted e-mail, offering the anti-impotence drugs Viagra and Cialis. Anyone who replied to the sender could have been targeted with scams or computer viruses.
The failing drags the Corporation into the on-going row over how large organisations store private information about individuals. Last night a senior MP called the incident "very serious" and demanded that the BBC take action to tighten its security.
A spokesman for the Corporation confirmed that members of the public had been affected after their details were hijacked from a list of people who had signed up to receive information about next month's BBC Electric Proms music festival.
Source - Telegraph
[From the article:
A BBC spokeswoman said: "As a result of an administrative error, spam mail received by the BBC was accidentally [No accident, they meant to do it! Bob] sent out to subscribers of the Electric Proms mailing list.
"We apologise for this mistake and have contacted everyone on the list to explain the situation. We wish to assure all subscribers that no details have been passed on to third party companies [How could they conceivably know this? Bob] and all the data held on our systems is completely secure." [Oh? Bob]
Democrats got hackers! (Clearly one of those politically motivated hate crimes which means the little bugger is on his way to Guantanamo!)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080920123910652
Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker
Saturday, September 20 2008 @ 12:39 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
FBI agents are using proxy server logs to track down the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account. The hacker gained access to the Republican Vice Presidential candidate’s account by resetting the password. He then posted details of his adventures up on a popular online forum, but that information is now leading reporters and federal investigators to the suspect – a Tennessee university college student [I wonder what his major is? Bob] and son of state democratic representative Mike Kernell.
Source - tgdaily
[From the article:
But it gets even better. White hat hackers didn’t even need proxy information to find the culprit because they discovered that the Rubico forum handle was linked to rubico10@yahoo.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it A few searches on Google and YouTube further links this email address to 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His father is Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell.
As you can expect, the Yahoo account has been frozen and all the incriminating forum posts on 4chan.org have been deleted. But this didn’t stop Wired.com from printing some of the posts. Don’t you just love it when hackers brag about the “leet” skills?
This is either a great business model (interested in investing?) or an indication that machines will replace humans – first they take our women...
Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends (Webkare)
by Serkan Toto on September 20, 2008
In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nippon’s newest web sensation. Geared exclusively towards girls, the site attracted over 10,000 members just 5 days after its release on September 10, racking up 3.5 million page views in the same time frame.
The site is a huge hit over here. Girls sign up and become members of a social network but also users of a dating simulation in cartoon style. They have to try to hook up with one of four male Anime characters (who are the “stars” of the site) through “conversations” and must collaborate with other Webkare members in order to move on in the game. Eventually they conquer the heart of the chosen cartoon boy.
Great legal minds or legal minds that grate?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/20/2339234&from=rss
Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions
Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, @08:12PM from the for-our-eyeballs-only dept. Censorship Television
RockMFR writes
"A DMCA takedown notice sent by Nielsen Media Research to the Wikimedia Foundation has resulted in the deletion of over 300 pages on the English Wikipedia. The pages were 'templates' and categories that listed television stations within various geographical markets in the United States. Discussion of the deletions has focused on whether this type of information can actually be copyrighted, though the content of the takedown notice have not been made public."
[From the comments:
They should also send a take down notice to another illicit site as well then.
... It's practically un-american that anyone can access those same details via fcc.gov. Those weezles have been indexing this exact same information for ages under the pretense of "licensing."
In fact, I thought the details were rather verbatim so these two problem children probably get the warez from the same place.
Global Warming! Global Warming!
Old Farmer's Almanac predicts global cooling
By Michael HirtzerThu Sep 18, 12:05 PM ET
The world is set for a "big chill," possibly a mini-ice age, according to the venerable and whimsical Old Farmer's Almanac, first published in 1792 and the United States' oldest continuously published periodical.
The 2009 edition, published earlier this month, predicts that the earth already has entered a sustained period of global cooling.
... She said the method is not exact. Since the almanac is published so far in advance, it cannot take into account the most up-to-date information on Pacific Ocean oscillations El Nino or La Nina, for instance.
Still, the almanac has an 80 percent success rate for its weather predictions, Perreault said.
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