Age of cyber warfare dawns
According to a report compiled by McAfee, cyber war has moved from fiction to fact. It bases its conclusion on analysis of recent Internet-based attacks, writes the BBC.
Analysis of the motives of those behind many attacks carried out via the Internet showed many were mounted with an explicitly political aim.
It said that many nations are arming to defend themselves in a cyber war and readying forces to conduct their own attacks.
Hacktivists ransack Hitler defender's e-mail
Self-proclaimed anti-fascist hackers have struck a major blow at controversial World War II historian David Irving by taking down two of his Web sites and publishing scores of his e-mails and private information, reports The Register.
The 16 000-word missive posted to Wikileaks contains the names and contact details of supporters of Irving, who - among other things - claims Adolph Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust.
It also includes passwords for accounts Irving used to receive e-mail, administer his Web sites, and process online purchases of his books and tickets. Its posting over the weekend coincided with the outage of his two Web sites, Irvingbooks.com and Focal Point Magazine.
T-Mobile staff sold personal data
T-Mobile has confirmed its staff members have passed on millions of records from thousands of customers to third-party brokers, says the BBC.
Details emerged after the firm alerted the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, who said his office was preparing a prosecution. Graham noted that brokers had sold the data to other phone firms, which then cold-called the customers as their contracts were due to expire.
A T-Mobile spokesman said the data had been sold "without our knowledge".
RidRx unveils stethoscope app
Start-up RidRx is selling an adapter to connect old stethoscopes to an iPhone or iPod Touch, along with a phone dock/holder and an app that translates the audio the stethoscope captures into digital sound spectrograms, reports CNet.
The firm's easy-to-follow instructions include taking trauma shears to the old stethoscope to fit it to the patent-pending iStetho Adapter.
The adapter can only be marketed for recreational use.
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