https://github.com/trimstray/multitor

Twitter restores $50,000 @N username to its owner

A simple social engineering attack lost Naoki Hiroshima a very valuable handle

In January, Naoki Hiroshima lost his Twitter handle, @N, to the hands of a hacker who used social engineering and extortion to wrest the username from Hiroshima's hands. But today Twitter restored it to him after more than a month of the username being suspended.

Critical Capabilities for Mobile Device Management Software

23 May 2013 ID:G00250008                           

Analyst(s): Phillip Redman

VIEW SUMMARY

The critical capabilities for MDM take a deep look at the top technologies in MDM for policy compliance, mobile security management, mobile software management, mobile content management, analytics and delivery styles. This is pertinent data for telecom, network and client computing managers.

Cryptocurrencies on the agenda for C5 Alliance Group

 

                      

The C5 Alliance Group (C5) has started mining cryptocurrencies in an effort to increase knowledge and expertise in this growing area of interest.
This exercise will enable C5 to advise Channel Island businesses involved in this sort of activity and offer guidance to those interested in the enforcement and regulation of the decentralised currency.
Since its formation in 2009, the success of ‘Bitcoin’ has stimulated the development of many digital currencies. At the moment, there are more than 70 established variations including Litecoin, Peercoin and Primecoin – all peer-to-peer, digital and decentralised.

IBM And SAP Have A Tough Road Ahead Against Amazon's Low Margin Cloud

Tech titans are hoping the cloud will save their businesses (and profits), but it's more likely to do the opposite.
 
Two tech titans of yesteryear, IBM and SAP, had depressing quarterly earnings call this week. The worst part? Both are pinning their hopes on the very thing that is eating their lunch: cloud computing. And both are going to have to grapple with the profit-destroying machine that is Amazon Web Services. As Paul Ramsey, co-founder of the PostGIS open source spatial database, asks, "Has anyone ever gotten rich competing with Amazon?"

NSA collects 200 million SMS every day

 

NSA collects 200 million SMS every day, world wide according to whistle blower Edward Snowden.

Blackphone - Fully encrypted smartphone

Encrypted Blackphone goes to war with snoopers

Washington — It's a fully encrypted smartphone that aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers.