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Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents

Nov 2, 2009
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. The first-of-its...

Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks

Oct 20, 2009
A vulnerability in a Time Warner cable modem and Wi-Fi router deployed to 65,000 customers would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet, and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, acc...

New Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements to Cover Fraud

Sep 29, 2009
New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim’s dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report. The sophisticated hack uses a Tr...

Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google

Sep 21, 2009
A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of ...

'The Analyzer' Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank-Hacking Case

Aug 25, 2009
Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty in New York last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks. ...

Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest

Nov 4, 2009
The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently leaked document showing the United States trying to push its controversial DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process on the world. But since Threat Level already lives in the land of the DMCA, or Digital...

Fed's Search of Twittering Anarchist Upheld

Nov 4, 2009
Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Monday. U.S. district court judge Dora L....

Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System

Nov 4, 2009
It’s an election system voters and math geeks can embrace. On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system...

MPAA Wants Congress to 'Encourage' 3 Strikes, Filtering

Nov 4, 2009
The Motion Picture Association of America wants Congress to “encourage” internet providers to filter out pirated movies, and to punish customers who repeatedly engage in piracy with a “graduated response” that might include disconnection from the...

Mossad Hacked Syrian Official's Computer Before Bombing Mysterious Facility

Nov 3, 2009
Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel. The intelligence agents planted a Trojan horse on the...


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