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Computerworld: It was a shortage of computer memory in the $2.4 billion air traffic control system while a U-2 spy plane flew over southwestern US that caused LAX computers to crash and hundreds of flights to be delayed on April 30. “In theory, the same vulnerability could have been used by an attacker in a deliberate shut-down,” security experts told Reuters. Now that the “very basic limitation of the system” is known, experts expressed concerns...

Hack Surfer: The FBI is looking for a legal loophole allowing them to hack a suspect’s computers for evidence when the device’s physical location is unknown. The Justice Department submitted a proposal that would allow the FBI to more easily gain warrants to hack computers to obtain information. The trepidations around this proposals are probably very obvious.

Wall Street Journal: The cloud offers people the chance to unload their data-storage and computing chores onto somebody else's machines. But is doing all of that unloading a good idea? In recent years, more people have been taking advantage of systems that let them store and share files online, or run common software applications over the Web instead of on their local computer. For an idea of the size of the cloud market, and how...

ZDNet: If many South Asians think that we pamper our children beyond the point of good sense—especially if they are male and first born—they’re not going to be too surprised to read that 73 percent of children surveyed between the ages of 8 and 13  in tier-I and tier-II cities in India (ie: major Indian cities like Delhi and the next rung ones such as Chandigarh) have an account on facebook largely due to indulgent...

Computerworld: The U.S. Department of Justice wants new authority to hack and search remote computers during investigations, saying the new rules are needed because of complex criminal schemes sometimes using millions of machines spread across the country. Digital rights groups say the request from the DOJ for authority to search computers outside the district where an investigation is based raises concerns about Internet security and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.  

Reuters: A former executive at an e-commerce company that was acquired in 2011 by online retailer eBay Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to insider trading in connection with the takeover. Christopher Saridakis, 45, who had led the marketing solutionsdivision of GSI Commerce Inc, pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud for leaking material nonpublic information in March 2011 about the planned

The Hacker News: Before ransomware click fraud was one of the popular and efficient ways for cybercriminals to make money and with the explosive growth in the size of online threats it is still making its way on the internet.  

Softpedia: A 16-year-old boy from Ottawa has been arrested by Canadian authorities on suspicion of making prank calls known as swatting. Swatting is the term used for pranks in which the prankster calls emergency services with a fake story, in many cases bomb threats or hostage situations. These types of pranks are becoming more and more common.  

Arstechnica: A former sailor assigned to a US nuclear aircraft carrier and another man have been charged with hacking the computer systems of 30 public and private organizations, including the US Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, AT&T, and Harvard University. Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, of Chantilly, VA, and Daniel Trenton Krueger, 20, of Salem, IL, were members of a crew that hacked protected computers as part of a scheme to steal personal identities and...

Washington Post: For two hours a day, a General Services Administration employee visited dating websites, scoured the Internet for pornography and even maintained a user account at an X-rated social networking site. Ultimately, a computer virus from a porn site infected the employee’s email, sending a mass message to everyone in the account’s GSA address book titled “check out my pictures,” according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.