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<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Best Buy hit with another e-mail breach]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For the second month in a row, Best Buy has had to inform customers that their e-mail addresses were stolen.On April 22, the consumer electronics retailer discovered some e-mail addresses had been exposed in a security breach at a third-party vendor. Best Buy says it then notified customers and began pursuing legal action against the vendor.The retailer says it had earlier ended its relationship with the unnamed vendor, but it was &quot;a strategic business decision unrelated to data security,&quot; according to a Best Buy spokeswoman.Best Buy was one of the dozens of companies that warned customers last month that their e-mail addresses had been stolen in a breach at e-mail marketing services provider Epsilon. This is apparently unrelated to that incident.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Skype in the Classroom graduates from beta]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Skype in the Classroom, a video networking service for educators worldwide, is officially out of beta, the company said today.The service, which has been in beta since December, allows educators to collaborate with others around the world over video. The VoIP provider said it developed the service &quot;in response to, and in consultation with, the growing number of teachers using Skype to help their students learn.&quot;Skype's service can help educators find one another by location, among other criteria.(Credit:Screenshot by CNET)To set Skype In the Classroom apart from the company's basic service, teachers can use the tool to find fellow educators who may be teaching on the same topic. It can also be used to expose kids to guest speakers or collaborate on projects with other classes. Teachers can search through the service using age groups, location, and subjects of interest, Skype said.In some ways, Skype is trying to be the next generation's &quot;pen pal&quot; service. For decades now, students have had pen pals around the world with whom they would communicate during a school year. It was effective at helping them learn more about the world, but it was rather impersonal. Skype, it seems, wants to change that.The company cited one project under way between two classrooms--one in France and the other in Canada--that used Skype to enhance the pen pal relationship students previously had.&quot;Before arranging the first video call, our students exchanged letters and e-mails but we decided to bring the two classes together face-to-face over Skype video to enrich their relationship,&quot; Christophe Fetat, one of the teachers involved in the project, said in a statement. &quot;The result was amazing. Students were really engaged to discuss different topics.&quot;That project is one of more than 40 started via the service. More than 4,700 teachers are already checking it out. The figures were growing by the minute today.Skype isn't alone in trying help teachers enrich their classrooms through technology. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, for example, launched a social network for educators last year. The program, called EDge, helps teachers collaborate on best practices, create lesson plans, and upload multimedia content for others to use in their classrooms. It's free to join.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: U.S. leads world in spam output]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is the spam leader across the world, responsible for one out of every five junk messages sent, according to a report out today from Sophos.The security vendor's fourth-quarter &quot;Dirty Dozen&quot; report of spam-relaying countries found that the United States upped its percentage of global spam from the third quarter and now accounts for 18.83 percent of all junk e-mails.That percentage is almost three times higher than second-place India, which is responsible for deploying 6.88 percent of all spam across the globe, according to Sophos. Other countries named on the Dirty Dozen list include Brazil, Russia, the U.K., and France.(Credit:Sophos)Beyond producing the sheer volume of spam per country, the bad guys are finding more malicious ways to spread their payloads.Though junk mail still relies on typical subjects, such as ads for pharmaceuticals, more spam is being geared toward sending malware and stealing user names, passwords, and other personal information, says Sophos. Another form of attack on the rise is spear-phishing, which sends out e-mails targeted to specific organizations or people, usually in an attempt to gain confidential information.Following the takedown of the Bredolab network late last year, spam levels started to take a dip. Spam also has been in a slump since Christmas as the Rustock spambot, responsible for generating a lot of the world's junk mail, seemed to take some time off for the holidays.But Sophos believes the malware writers have actually turned their attention to using Rustock for other tasks, such as installing pop-up ads and trying to get people to buy phony antivirus software. And as of yesterday, the security vendor reports seeing spam levels spiking up yet again. As always, Sophos cautions people to be wary of e-mail attachments and unknown links, especially ones associated with social networks.&quot;As long as spammers continue to make money from these schemes, Internet users can be sure that they'll continue to receive unsolicited emails and social networking scams,&quot; Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in a statement. &quot;To combat this, it's essential that computer users remain wary of clicking on unknown links, regardless of whether they appear to be on a trusted contact's social networking page.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Japanese earthquake rocks online games]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gbeauchamp</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Square Enix, developer of video games like the role-playing Final Fantasy game series, will shut down its servers for its online games Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV to conserve power following a massive earthquake in Japan.Square Enix shut down the servers today and did not indicate when the servers will come back up. The online Final Fantasy series is unique in that it meshes Japanese and international players very closely and has in-game translations to help players communicate across language barriers. But an earthquake on Friday did massive damage to the country&amp;'s wireless and cloud services a4&quot; which are run on remote servers that store information and handle heavy-duty computing a4&quot; hampering online services across the country.While a lot of online services in Japan have backup cloud servers across the world, it looks like the online Final Fantasy games did not merit additional servers. That might be because the game did not have as many players as other online games like World of Warcraft a4&quot; which now has 12 million active monthly subscribers. The most recent game, Final Fantasy XIV, had a bit of a rough start and was not well received by critics, picking up a score of 49 out of 100 across 25 reviews on review aggregation site Metacritic.Japan was hit by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale a4&quot; which is a logarithmic scale, meaning that an extra 1 point on the scale means the quake is about 32 times more powerful. The earthquake rocked the northeastern portion of the coast and generated a tsunami warning across the country. The quake was the strongest to hit Japan in at least a century and generated a tsunami as high as 33 feet that flooded northern towns.[Photo: a4a4a4]Previous Story: AT&amp;038'T, fearing the Internet of things, will impose data caps for broadband usersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud computing, cloud services, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, online games, wireless servicesCompanies: Square Enix          Tags: cloud computing, cloud services, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, online games, wireless servicesCompanies: Square EnixMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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