Romanian eBay hacker and prosecutor both unhappy with appeal ruling

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• Romanian eBay hacker and prosecutor both unhappy with appeal ruling
• US report warns of Russia, China cyber spying
• Holiday shopping with personal devices at work could pose security risk
• Ongoing drive-by download campaign hijacked MIT server
• Germany pressures Facebook on tracking technologies
• Harris Corp. sees opportunity, challenges in the cloud
• AS3:101 – Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• AS3 101: Events – Basix
• Supreme Court set to hear landmark GPS tracking case
• India Exempts Its Outsourcers from New Privacy Rules
• Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find

Romanian eBay hacker and prosecutor both unhappy with appeal ruling Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:24 AM PDT Romanian eBay hacker Vlad Duiculescu, known online as "Vladuz," lost the appeal to get his three-year suspended prison sentence reduced on Tuesday. The court also dismissed the appeal lodged by prosecutors regarding the hacker's acquittal on organized crime charges.

US report warns of Russia, China cyber spying Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:09 AM PDT The U.S. can expect more aggressive efforts from countries such as Russia and China to collect information through cyberespionage in areas such as pharmaceuticals, defense and manufacturing, according to a new government report released Thursday.

Holiday shopping with personal devices at work could pose security risk Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:06 AM PDT Workers plan to do more online holiday shopping this year while on the job, with many using their own smartphones and tablets. That's got IT managers worried, a survey shows. Insider (registration required)

Ongoing drive-by download campaign hijacked MIT server Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:25 AM PDT A server belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was commandeered by hackers who used it to launch attacks against other websites as part of a larger drive-by download campaign, according to antivirus vendor BitDefender.

Germany pressures Facebook on tracking technologies Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:39 AM PDT A German data protection authority contends Facebook is tracking users even after they delete their accounts, and it wants the company to respond to this potential privacy violation by Monday.

Harris Corp. sees opportunity, challenges in the cloud Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PDT With all the security challenges encompassed in cloud services, one company is working to ensure that its users and other customers can rely on it for business critical computing.

AS3:101 – Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:36 AM PDT Object-Oriented Programming is a bit of a hot topic. More and more programming languages are cropping up that support it (Ruby, for example), and more and more languages that previously didn't support Object-Oriented Programming (OOP for short) have been released with versions that do, like PHP and ActionScript. Some languages only work if you utilize the whole OOP thing to begin with, like Java and Objective-C...

AS3 101: Events – Basix Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:35 AM PDT For this chapter of AS3 101, we will be diving into the mechanics of the Flash event system. If you've been following along so far, you'll have seen events in use, dating all the way back to the first episode of the series. The editor and I felt that it was time to write up something to be formally included in the curriculum, so if you've ever seen those lines of code about adding event listeners or dispatching events, and not quite caught on, then this is the tutorial for you.

Supreme Court set to hear landmark GPS tracking case Posted: 02 Nov 2011 01:18 AM PDT The U.S. Supreme Court next week will begin hearing arguments in a landmark case involving the government's authority to use GPS tracking devices in criminal investigations without first obtaining a court order.

India Exempts Its Outsourcers from New Privacy Rules Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:45 PM PDT India's outsourcing industry breathes a sigh of relief as the government exempts it from strict new data protection rules.

Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:20 AM PDT Facebook's fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have found after an eight-week test.

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