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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SCADA hack talk canceled after U.S., Siemens request]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mamonria</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The researchers were scheduled to give their talk at the TakeDown Conference in Dallas today.Two researchers say they canceled a talk at a security conference today on how to attack critical infrastructure systems, after U.S. cybersecurity and Siemens representatives asked them not to discuss their work publicly.  &quot;We were asked very nicely if we could refrain from providing that information at this time,&quot; Dillon Beresford, an independent security researcher and a security analyst at NSS Labs, told CNET today. &quot;I decided on my own that it would be in the best interest of security...to not release the information.&quot;  Beresford said he and independent researcher Brian Meixell planned on doing a physical demonstration at the TakeDown Conference and shared their slides and other information on vulnerabilities and exploits with Siemens, ICS-CERT (Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team), and the Idaho National Lab on Monday.  A DHS official provided this statement: &quot;DHS' Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) frequently engages with industry partners and members of the cybersecurity community to share actionable vulnerability information and mitigation measures in an effort to better secure our nation's critical infrastructure. In this collaboration, DHS always prioritizes the responsible disclosure of vulnerability information, while concurrently providing actionable solutions and recommendations to better secure our nation's infrastructure. This responsible disclosure process does not encourage the release of sensitive vulnerability information without also validating and releasing a solution.&quot;  A U.S.-based representative for Siemens, a German company, did not respond to a call or e-mail. Siemens was expected to make a statement on Thursday, according to Beresford.  Earlier in the day, an organizer of the conference said that it was Siemens and the Department of Homeland Security that had requested that the researchers hold off on their talk. ICS-CERT is a division of DHS.  The presentation was entitled &quot;Chain Reactions--Hacking SCADA&quot; (supervisory control and data acquisition), which is technology used in manufacturing and critical-infrastructure systems. About 300 people were registered to attend the TakeDown Conference, which is happening today and tomorrow in Dallas.  &quot;Combining traditional exploits with industrial control systems allows attackers to weaponize malicious code, as demonstrated with Stuxnet. The attacks against Iran's nuclear facilities were started by a sequence of events that delayed the proliferation of nuclear weapons,&quot; a summary of the talk says. &quot;We will demonstrate how motivated attackers could penetrate even the most heavily fortified facilities in the world, without the backing of a nation state. We will also present how to write industrial grade malware without having direct access to the target hardware. After all, if physical access was required, what would be the point of hacking into an industrial control system&quot;  Last year's Stuxnet was believed to be the first malware designed specifically to target industrial control systems. Experts say it was written to seek out particular Siemens software and was likely aimed at sabotaging Iran's nuclear program.  News of the cancellation first spread on Twitter, when another presenter at the conference, Jayson Street, tweeted: &quot;Since DHS just banned next speaker from giving his talk [on SCADA] I'm up next!&quot;  However, Beresford said they were merely asked to not give the talk.  &quot;Dillon was not threatened or prevented from speaking. Rather, he made the decision based on the potential negative impact to human life and the fact that the vendor's proposed mitigation had failed,&quot; NSS Labs Chief Executive Rick Moy said in an e-mail. &quot;ICS-CERT has done a great job of assisting us with this process, and we look forward to Siemens being able to address the issue for their customers.&quot;Updated 6:21 p.m. PTwith DHS comment and 5:53 p.m. PTwith clarification that it was ICS-CERT that was involved' adds more details and comment from researcher.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple gives developers iOS 4.3 Gold Master]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mamonria</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott Forstall, senior VP of iOS Software, talking about iOS 4.3 during yesterday&amp;39's iPad 2 event.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Apple has given developers the Gold Master copy of iOS 4.3, which is slated to go out to users as a free download at the end of next week. The Gold Master is typically the same build users get when the software is released.The software update was formally unveiled during yesterday's iPad 2 event. Developers had first gotten their hands on it in mid-January.(Credit:Apple)Among the new features that come with iOS 4.3 are support for Home Sharing (which lets you play your iTunes library from anywhere in the house), the capability to turn youriPhone into a Wi-Fi hot spot, improved AirPlay support, and a new JavaScript engine forSafari that Apple says brings Safari mobile up to speed with itsMac OS X counterpart. Other iPad-specific improvements include a software toggle to turn the switch on the right side of the device into either a mute button, or the screen orientation lock switch--functionality Apple had changed with a previous software update.  Apple said yesterday that only the iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch devices will be eligible for the software update. To read more about some of the additions and see them in action, you can take a look at our roundup from yesterday. Download links from Apple&amp;39's iOS developer page.(Credit:CNET) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More arrests in tech insider-trading scheme]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mamonria</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Quite a lot more details just came out about the insider-information probe that hit the tech world last month, and they're juicy. The Wall Street Journal has a full report on the whole scheme. Turns out one of the men indicted today, Walter Shimoon, worked for Flextronics, a supplier to Apple. In the papers unsealed today, the FBI caught Shimoon on tape allegedly relaying super-secret details about the yet-to-be-releasediPhone last year as well as the internal code name for the project that turned into theiPad. Fortune found the details in the 39-page indictment, and called them out today.Last month an FBI investigation resulted in the arrest of an executive of an &quot;expert network&quot; called Primary Global Research who was accused of selling or providing important, non-public information about high-profile tech companies to investors. More indictments were revealed today, resulting in more arrests. Those indicted were consultants of Primary Global Research that helped clients like hedge funds and mutual funds get information about their investment companies. It's not wholly unsurprising that the most-secretive company in the technology world was one of the alleged victims of this scheme. Analysts, investors--not to mention bloggers--are desperate to get any nugget of information about what Apple is up to, whether it's timing of a new product or sometimes a single spec change on a gadget.The indictment notes that the Flextronics employee was recorded by the FBI in October 2009 allegedly telling someone about third-quarter iPhone sales figures over the phone, and that Apple's next iPhone would have two cameras, &quot;a five-megapixel auto-focus camera and it will have a VGA forward-facing videoconferencing camera.&quot; That was eight months before the iPhone 4, with cameras of those exact specifications, was introduced.Shimoon also allegedly told his contact (who is not named) about a new product in the works for Apple. He is accused of saying, &quot;It's totally ... It's a new category altogether... It doesn't have a camera, what I figured out. So I speculated that it's probably a reader...Something like that. Um, let me tell you, it's a very secretive program...It's called K, K48. That's the internal name. So, you can get, at Apple you can get fired for saying K48.&quot; A little over three months later, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad.The information peddling was not limited to Apple. Inside information was provided about AMD, Dell, and Flextronics, according to the court documents.Arrested in the scheme and charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud today were: James Fleishman, Primary Global vice president and sales manager' Shimoon, senior director of business development at Flextronics' Mark Anthony Longoria, AMD supply chain manager' and Manosha Karunatilaka, account manager at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yesterday and&nbsp'Today]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mamonria</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[I was talking with Mike Arrington last night, and he asked me if I had any ideas for todaya4a4s column. We batted around several topics a4&quot; GroupOff being the most interesting as it shows a significant signal of Google weakness. But as I struggled this morning to meet my 10AM deadline (note: Ia4a4m writing these words at 1:18PM) this weeka4a4s Gillmor Gang went live on TechCrunchTV. Well, all except my iPad.When the show is published to the Ooyala Backlot software, a number of different versions are rendered. The show works on the Web, works on the iPhone, but on the iPad plays the TechCrunch logo bumper and an ad, then goes black. Now, Ia4a4m sure that the engineers will shortly fix this, and if they dona4a4t you can go to the YouTube version which works just fine. But my larger, or simpler point is that not supporting the iPad as the base case in todaya4a4s environment is ludicrous. I blame the content cartel, Comcast, the FCC, Barnes &amp;amp' Noble, Adobe, and anybody else who is attempting to derail the overturning of the traditional media channels.The content cartel is really on our side, believe it or not. Mostly because they tremble in fear of being RecordBiz 2.0. They know full well the iPad is their friend, because once NetFlix trains us that there is no window long enough to protect Hollywood from todaya4a4s shows being compared to last yeara4a4s releases, the jig is up. Ita4a4s Microsofta4a4s problem with Windows and Office updates: theya4a4re competing with themselves, and the only reason we buy the next one is because it comes preloaded on a new machine. Thata4a4s why the Beatles own the Top 50 on iTunes. The Beatles play on my iPad.Comcast doesna4a4t care about the iPad but thata4a4s because they are acquiring NBC which is paid by Microsoft to not care. They released an iPad app that lets me control my DVRs but doesna4a4t let me watch them. I can get NBC shows on my iPad by renting them from iTunes, so I dona4a4t blame NBC, just Comcast. The FCC is toothless, Barnes &amp;amp' Noble gives me no reason whatsoever to leave them even a pity tip as I go to the Kindle and iBooks stores to download iPad product, and Adobea4. Ooyala will fix the problem, but Adobe is the problem.As the guy said in the old movie, what we have here is a failure to communicate. What part of yes fails to penetrate the minds of those who see video as the next bubble Yes, we want video, we want it streamed, we want access to it even if we never stream it because then we can delete it off of our iTunes server to free up enough OS space to upgrade to the next version of the infrastructure. The Chicken Littles announcing that this streaming thing is gonna use up all the Clouda4a4s free space have always and continue to be wrong.OK, well, then wea4a4re gonna have to charge you. Fine. What part of how much do you not get 3 or 400 for Google TV, no thanks. A hundred for Apple TV, sure. Now that Ia4a4ve been able to AirPlay into my bedroom, Ia4a4ll buy another one for my new stereo home entertainment system in the living room and even buy the new Hendrix box set on iTunes while Ia4a4m standing on line in Starbucks. Comes with interactive liner notes so I dona4a4t mind saving the money for the analog box set that I cana4a4t buy anywhere.Apple TV shows us we will save up enough money from opting out of clueless suppliers and spend it on what this streaming architecture will cost. I am diverting my acquisition of DVR-constrained TV shows to rental and preferably streaming of socially filtered results. I am moving to iTunes from CDs and BlueRay, to Bluetooth content streaming from radio, to the networks that speak iPad as well as all the rest. Just look at the ABC app' fully one third of the shows my family and I watch (All My Children, The View, Greya4a4s Anatomy, Private Practice, you get the idea) and all the arguments about saving them on the living room screen are gone. The kids got iPads from the grandparents for the holidays, and now I can blast Hendrix and Neil Young and Dylan outtakes guilt free.When this sooner than later adds up to real money, the other networks will ante up. Android and Chrome will help, but people will be in those markets as a way of competing with iOS product, not instead of. Comcast will still be useful just because of the economics of that cable coming into the home. But if they keep the iPad at arms length they will provide competitors with an on-ramp to their customers. Ita4a4s not so much cable-cutting that is the threat' ita4a4s winnowing the valuable product down via social clouds to the point where the accumulated revenue makes it viable to justify the investment in iOS UI and the supposed wrath of the cartel.Ita4a4s 3:19 now and still no Gang joy on the iPad. But I can tell you that when John Biggs asks whether ita4a4s going to go all streaming, therea4a4s no part of yes to misunderstand. Every time a hard drive crashes, a little bit of us dies. Pictures, stolen moments, the soundtrack of our lives. Facebook thrives because we trust the Cloud, not the company. Gmail we trust because without redundancy they have no product. NetFlix we trust because we know wea4a4re not missing much no matter how long Comcast lengthens the window.Ita4a4s not clear how NetFlix/Level 3 will fare against the studiosa4a4 fear of being Appled, but then again the failure of the GroupOn deal suggests wea4a4re seeing a negotiation not a war. The Google strategy appears to be about acquiring the GroupOn salesforce as a way of staffing its +1 social product. Absorb the new social advertising model, they figure. The studios, afraid of iTunes, may realize ita4a4s better to absorb the NetFlix streaming model with variable pricing just like the Beatles waited for $1.29 and the holiday selling season to jump. After years of embargoed Beatles recordings in the media, those Apple Beatle ads look and sound fresh and alive. Yesterday suddenly doesna4a4t seem so far away.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sungevity raises $15 million to grow Internet-based rooftop solar leasing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mamonria</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Solar financing startup Sungevity has raised $15 million in a third round of financing to put more solar panels on rooftops by leasing or selling the systems to homeowners.The company has now raised a total of $25 million, andSungevity CEO Danny Kennedy said the company will use the capital to expand. Using a hot solar model, Sungevity offers solar leases that allow homeowners to put panels on their roofs for little to no money down. They then pay a monthly lease plus the cost of electricity generated, a combination that Sungevity says can beat traditional electricity rates. The company currently offers the leases in California, Arizona and Colorado, and will expand using the new round of cash.&amp;''We&amp;'re looking to go to many states next year and basically get a national foot print. We&amp;'re really looking at the northeast,&amp;'' said Kennedy, speaking from Washington, D.C., where he said he was doing market research.Solar seems to be attracting a nice level of interest from venture capitalists lately, endangered subsidies or not. Thin-film cadmium telluride solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar yesterday closed on $510 million in funding to expand its manufacturing capacity.According to Greentech Media, Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &amp;amp' Byers have invested in Clean Power Finance, a software-as-a-service firm that makes a tool for solar installers that speeds up and streamlines bidding, rebates and sales proposals.Sungevity is a smaller potato compared to its larger and buzzier counterparts, the Elon Musk-backed SolarCity and the Sequoia-backed SunRun (both of which are said to be potential IPOs in 2011). While both SunRun and Sungevity say there&amp;'s enough room in the solar leasing market to accommodate the competition, Kennedy pointed out that his company has been able to show good growth with less capital than what&amp;'s been raised by others in the field, in part because of its centralized, Internet-based model that operates largely out of the company&amp;'s base in Oakland, Calif. The companygrew its market share in top solar market California from 0.4 percent to 2.9 percent last year, and says its kilowatts sold have gone up 10 times since last year for a total of 4.7 megawatts.The company&amp;'s pitch is that it&amp;'s the Netflix of home solar &amp;8212' that is, it&amp;'s all about tapping into convenience through the Internet. Sungevity uses an Internet-based model that pulls in satellite images from sites like Bing to assess homes and give residents quotes within 24 hours of their request. The company is planning to roll out more consumer-side software and streamline the paperwork process using the web' customers can currently electronically sign their leases online. Another differentiator: Sungevity offers 10-year plans for power purchase agreements and leases, which is significantly shorter than the standard 20- or 25-year plans in the solar industry.It&amp;'s playing in a field that is set to grow from about 80,000 houses with solar to 2.4 percent of the U.S. housing market by 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, though Kennedy told me at GreenBeat 2010 that he thinks those numbers are low. In a statement, the company citedanew report byIDC Energy Insights that saidthe rate of North American solar installations is expected to double in 2011, and residential solar leasing companies are expected to increase their market share to over 50%.Investors in this round include Greener Capital, Firelake Capital and Brightpath Capital Partners.Next Story: Get a ride on the reverse Geeks on a Plane Previous Story: The early bird gets the DEMO launch spotPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: rooftop solar, Solar, solar financing, solar leasesCompanies: Bing, Brightpath Capital Partners, Clean Power Finance, Firelake Capital, Greener Capital, SolarCity, Sungevity, SunrunPeople: Danny Kennedy          Tags: rooftop solar, Solar, solar financing, solar leasesCompanies: Bing, Brightpath Capital Partners, Clean Power Finance, Firelake Capital, Greener Capital, SolarCity, Sungevity, SunrunPeople: Danny KennedyIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat 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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<title><![CDATA[Could Kodak&'s patents threaten photo-sharing sites]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mamonria</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A patent dispute is unfolding between Kodak and photo-sharing site Shutterfly that could haveramificationsfor some of the broader photo-sharing sites on the web, such as Yahoo&amp;'s Flickr, the widely-used Picasa by Google, and Facebook&amp;'s Photos feature.Kodak has filed a lawsuit against Shutterfly over five patents it claims Shutterfly&amp;'s online services are infringing on. Shutterfly is a popular way for people to purchase print photo books, stationery, and calendars out of their personal photos. Shutterfly has denied the claims and filed a counter-suit against Kodak over the company&amp;'s own Kodak Gallery Software.Kodak claims to have over 400 patents in the space and has possibly made Shutterfly its initial target because it makes for an ideal opponent &amp;8212' the publicly-traded Shutterfly is much bigger than a private-owned startup in the space but doesn&amp;'t have the deep pockets of giants like Google and Facebook to fully challenge such a lawsuit.The company hasn&amp;'t stated outright whether it intends to go after other players at this point, but says it is confident in the value of its patents. Most likely, it&amp;'s picking a single contender to prove a point before it marks out for an open-fire across the slew of other photo-sharing websites.How will Google, Yahoo, and Facebook respond if the patent bug gets to them Theo Savvides, head of intellectual property at Osborne Clarke, told BBC News that he predicts smaller firms are more likely to license Kodak&amp;'s technology than fight claims, but the giants may be more likely to fight the claims.&amp;''The case may hinge on Kodak&amp;'s ability to show that when it filed the patents they covered technology that was genuinely innovative,&amp;'' added Deborah Bould, a specialist in intellectual property at law firm Pinsent Masons.Back in January, Kodak also filed a suit against Apple and Blackberry-maker RIM over patents on the displaying and previewing of images on their cellphone devices.Previous Story: Hulu gets more YouTube-like with playlistsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: intellectual property, lawsuit, patent, photo sharingCompanies: flickr, Kodak, Picasa, Shutterfly          Tags: intellectual property, lawsuit, patent, photo sharingCompanies: flickr, Kodak, Picasa, ShutterflySid Yadav is a contributor to VentureBeat. He currently studies computer science and psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is also the creator of Memiary, a micro-diary utility. You can reach him at sidyadav@gmail.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @sidyadav.VentureBeat 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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