Nintendo hacker arrested

Police in Spain have arrested a man who allegedly stole details of thousands of Nintendo users and tried to blackmail the company, reports BBC.

The unnamed individual obtained data on 4 000 gamers, according to Spain's Interior Ministry. It is claimed he threatened to contact the country's data protection agency, accusing the firm of negligence.

When Nintendo did not respond, he began leaking some of the information online, said police.

Google has unveiled one of its first experiments aimed at fighting back against content farms, asking the public to help identify the worst offenders, states CNet.

Chrome users can now download an extension from Google called Personal Blocklist that will allow users to block certain domains from appearing in a personalised list of search results.

Google will also track the domains that users flag "and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results", wrote Matt Cutts, principal engineer at Google and a prominent anti-spam spokesman for the company, in a blog post.

Huawei Technologies, China's phone networks maker, rejected calls by a US panel to divest technology assets bought from 3Leaf Systems, and will wait for president Barack Obama's decision on the issue, says Business Week.

The interagency committee on foreign investment in the US had recommended last week that the Shenzhen, China-based company sell the assets, after some US lawmakers said the deal threatened national security.

Huawei's decision now leaves Obama with 15 days to take a stand on the panel's suggestion, Bill Plummer, the Chinese company's Washington-based VP of external affairs, said.

Oracle has released its first database firewall designed to protect valuable systems from attack and disruption, according to V3.co.uk.

The Oracle Database Firewall has been developed using technology acquired from its purchase of Secerno last year. It allows real-time monitoring of intrusions, SQL attacks and any attempt to misallocate access privileges.

"Evolving threats to databases require enterprises to look at new security solutions,” says Vipin Samar, VP of Database Security at Oracle.