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Feds: Megaupload files may be deleted this week  30 January 2012 
Source: CNN - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Federal prosecutors who accuse file-sharing site Megaupload of being a hotbed of digital piracy say the site's customer files, presumably including perfectly legal ones, may be deleted starting Thursday.
 
Judges set timetable for McKinnon case resolution  27 January 2012 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Senior judges have set a timetable to speed up resolution in the long-running Gary McKinnon extradition case, effectively setting a deadline for the Home Office to respond to evidence that McKinnon is too infirm to withstand the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment over alleged Pentagon hacking offences.
 
Megaupload Bail Decision Reserved  24 January 2012 
Source: CSO Online - Posted by Alex   
Kim Dotcom and the other Megaupload defendants may have to wait until Wednesday to find out if they can be released on bail.
 
Air Force Drone Controllers Embrace Linux, But Why?  17 January 2012 
Source: Information Week - Posted by Alex   
Did a Windows virus outbreak in systems related to military drones cause the Air Force to switch its control systems from Windows to Linux?
 
Reddit Founder, DNS Hacker And Other SOPA Critics Will Address Congress In Hearing  10 January 2012 
Source: Forbes - Posted by Alex   
Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill that threatens to block large swathes of foreign websites for alleged copyright infringement, have complained that Congress has yet to hear their voice. In the initial hearing and markup of the bill in Congress, the only outside critic of the bill invited as a witness was Google, whose opposition to the act was largely dismissed as an isolated exception.
 
Use An iPhone? Yup, The Government Tracks That  10 January 2012 
Source: FastCompany - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group, the Lords of Dharmaraja, posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights.
 
E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says  06 January 2012 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
An electronic ballot scanning device slated for use in the upcoming presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission has found.
 
Chinese Hackers Used 'Spear Phishing' To Attack U.S. Chamber Of Commerce  22 December 2011 
Source: Huffington Post - Posted by Dave Wreski   
As hackers from China snooped around the computer system of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year, many Chamber employees started receiving a dramatic uptick of spam emails.
 
UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam  09 December 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated 1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims who had taken out student loans.
 
Romanian hacker arrested for breaching security of NASA's servers  16 November 2011 
Source: The Republic - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A court in Romania has ordered the arrest of a Romanian man accused of Hacking into NASA's servers. Court spokesman Lucian Marian in the northwest city of Cluj says Robert Butyka would be arrested for 29 days as he awaits trial.
 
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