Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 8, 2012 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Interpol Secretary General Wants Global Cyber Fusion Center
Meeting The Independent before visiting Scotland Yard to discuss arrangements for the Games, Mr Noble said he recognised that some people are scared the event could bring an increased threat of violence to the UK.
"One of the things I want to do... is to create a cyber-fusion centre, where police around the world can go to one place quickly and find out the source of any kind of message or communication that's come across the internet."
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 8, 2012 at 12:55:00 PM CET
Symantec confirms hacker theft of Norton anti-virus source code
Summary: Symantec, the anti-virus maker, has confirmed that a hacking group has stolen a “segment” of its flagship product. The group said it would make the source code available.
Symantec has confirmed that a “segment” of its flagship Norton anti-virus product’s source code was leaked onto the web this week.
The firm said that the code relates to two older enterprise products, one of which is no longer in production. But it said the breach was on a third-party network rather than its own, and will “not affect any current Norton product”.
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Topic: NASA - on January 8, 2012 at 12:39:00 PM CET
NASA questions Apollo 13 checklist sale
NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than $388,000 US, about 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the 1995 film Apollo 13 in which actor Tom Hanks plays Lovell making the calculations.
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