Environment Canada Protected documents found on street

Environment Minister John Baird has asked officials to look into how a 131 page government document from his department came to be found on a street in the Kanata area of Ottawa in a rain-stained, tire-marked, brown paper envelope. Baird said the document - detailing how...

Forget about Wardriving, the new thing is WarCarting

Students at MIT have invented a new craze in WiFi network security: Warcarting, using an abandonned shopping cart stuffed with computers and antennas to go hunting for wireless networks, wireless phones and all kinds of fun stuff. Htey are creating a new kind of trash chic in...

Record-breaking Wardriving identity theft: 40,000,000+

A US Federal grand jury in Boston (Massachusetts, USA) charged 11 people on Tuesday, August 5th 2008,  with stealing 45 Million credit and debit card numbers from the computers of Massachusetts-based TJX, which owns the Marshall's and TJ Maxx stores, and other retail...

A new OpenSource approach to Standards

A new standards organisation has been launched. WikiNörm is a Standards Development Organisation, or SDO, created by the Leger Research Foundation (a Non-Profit Organisation from Montréal, Québec, Canada). It promotes free and open standards, principally but not limited...

Free and open, the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Popular University

Starting on September 9th, 2008, a Popular University will open it's doors in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On the model of the French Université Populaire, as proposed by French Philosopher Michel Onfrey, it will offer...

UK government Laptop and USB Key security woes

Since 2004, the UK Ministry of Defence has lost track of 121 USB keys, 658 stolen laptop computers and 89 lost laptop computers. Of these, 32 laptops have been reported recovered. Of 26 USB keys lost so far this year, 5 contained Secret...

Hacker gets 41 months Jail in USA

Following an investigation which began in December 2006, after marketing firm Newell Rubbermaid notified the London (England, UK) Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit (CCU) about an intrusion on its network, Robert Matthew Bentley, a 21 year old male of...

Cyberslacking increases productivity: UK study says.

In a story related to last weeks' story Take away my Facebook at work and I Quit !, The UK study PopCap Break Report 2008 found that 57% of workers use their break to surf the web for personal uses. 71% said they surfed for personal reasons during business hours and 47%...

Take away my Facebook at work and I Quit !

A recent study by Vnunet and reported on All Facebook indicated that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace. Nick O'Neill, All Facebook author, indicated that he previously worked at a job where they...