Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 13, 2012 at 2:33:00 PM CET
Inside the Stratfor Attack
Last December, a group of hackers quietly orchestrated an attack on Stratfor Global Intelligence Service, a company based in Austin, Tex., that analyzes geopolitical risk and publishes a newsletter for various clients, among them the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense. The hackers breached the company’s network and, once inside, confided in their fellow hacker, Hector Xavier Monsegur, and, as it turns out, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Topic: WEB - on March 13, 2012 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete
After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The portfolio transfer was formally completed on Friday, March 9th, 2012. The transfers were done seamlessly and our sites did not experience any interruption of service or other issues during the procedure.
As the provider of the 5th most visited web properties in the world, the Foundation cares deeply about who handles our domain names. We had been deliberating a move from GoDaddy for some time — our legal department felt the company was not the best fit for our domain needs — and we began actively seeking other domain management providers in December 2011. GoDaddy’s initial support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the controversial anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, reaffirmed our decision to end the relationship.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 13, 2012 at 2:17:00 PM CET
Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google
Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was “offered and accepted at senior executive position” with the internet giant, according to Darpa spokesman Eric Mazzacone. She felt she couldn’t say no to such an “innovative company,” he adds.
Dugan’s emphasis on cybersecurity and next-generation manufacturing earned her strong support from the White House, winning her praise from the President and maintaining the agency’s budget even during a period of relative austerity at the Pentagon. Her push into crowdsourcing and outreach to the hacker community were eye-openers in the often-closed world of military R&D. Dugan also won over some military commanders by diverting some of her research cash from long-term, blue-sky projects to immediate battlefield concerns.
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Topic: health - on March 13, 2012 at 2:14:00 PM CET
Indien zwingt Bayer in die Knie
Ein indisches Gericht bremst Bayer aus: Es zwingt den deutschen Pharmamulti, sein Patent für ein Krebsmedikament weitergeben. Damit kostet eine Behandlung künftig noch 175 Dollar pro Monat - statt 5500.
In einem wegweisenden Urteil zwingt Indien den deutschen Pharmakonzern Bayer zur Weitergabe eines Patents für ein Krebsmedikament an einen heimischen Hersteller. Das Mittel Nexavar soll dadurch in dem Schwellenland künftig nur noch einen Bruchteil des bisherigen Preises kosten.
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