Two men have been charged in connection with a hack on the AT&T Website last June that exposed more than 100,000 e-mail addresses belonging to owners of the Apple iPad 3G. – Two men believed to be at the center of the theft of e-mail addresses from AT amp;T last year are now facing criminal charges.
Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, and 25-year-old Andrew Auernheimer of Fayetteville, Ark., were taken into custody by the FBI Jan. 18 in connection with the theft of …
The family of French football fan Brice Taton, who was murdered in 2009 in downtown Belgrade, appeared before the High Court in Belgrade. They asked that those responsible for his murder “pay for the life they took.”
Defense Minister Dragan Å utanovac has commented on reports that SPS leader and Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić would become Serbia’s next PM. Å utanovac said that the ruling Democrats (DS) did not discuss the possibility of making DaÄić the prime minister in a reshuffled government.
Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol has finally addressed all the people who want her off Dancing With the Stars. She took to Facebook and started by thanking her “fans.†“On a nicer note, thank you for supporting the great competition in Dancing with the Stars!” UsMagazine.com quoted her as saying. “Thank you supporters who continue to [...]
President Boris Tadić has stated that hooligans will very soon be punished and that they will not halt Serbia’s EU integration process.
Tadić told Italian RAI TV that some of the hooligans would very soon stand trial.
Shortened web links are convenient, but they come at a price
PHYSICAL investment in Libya would merit much due diligence. On the internet, this is not yet standard. The woes of vb.ly, a website that used Libya’s .ly domain name, highlight a neglected problem for web businesses and users.
Web page addresses have to be both lengthy (key words help search-engine rankings) and terse (to be snappy and memorable, and to fit on Twitter). That has created a business: services that shorten long links. Most such firms shun the well-used “.com” and “.net” suffixes, and seek catchy domains instead (see table). Libya’s suffix allows such catchy names as “unlike.ly”. The most successful domain-shortening service, bit.ly, got 1.5 billion clicks last week. It makes money from customised link-shortening services for other firms and from mining the data about links that users create. …
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Beirut as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed a rally for the militant group Hezbollah, VOA reports. Supporters cheered and waved flags as Mr. Ahmadinejad spoke in the stronghold area for the Iranian-backed group.
The government adopted a regulation requiring dairies to make at least 40 pct of the daily amount of processed milk available as pasteurized or sterilized milk. Otherwise, the companies will face penalties, said reports.
Serbia is ready for a dialogue with PriÅ¡tina that would help reach an acceptable solution for Kosovo, Serbian President Boris Tadić said at the United Nations. Before the UN General Assembly, President Tadić said it was important that the UN members that had not recognized Kosovo’s independence did not change their stand during the dialogue.
Google Sept. 3 is letting businesses attach several addresses to the AdWords location extensions for Android-based smartphones. The idea is to boost business visibility and ad coverage. – Google Sept. 3 said it has added the ability for
advertisers to attach several business addresses to its AdWords location
extensions for Android-based smartphones.
Launched in July, AdWords location extensions let members of Google’s Places
program put their businesses’ location and phone number…
President Boris Tadić said that “confrontation would strip Serbia of any possibility to fight for its national interests and Kosovo”. “Serbia, whatever it is like and whoever is leading it, must have good relations with the powerful countries of the world. All other policies lead directly to doom,†Tadić was quoted as saying as he addressed parliament before the vote.
AT&T confirmed a group of hackers exploited a vulnerability that reportedly compromised the e-mail addresses of 114,000 3G iPad owners. Some of the stolen e-mail addresses belonged to officials in the military, NASA and high-profile companies. – AT amp;T confirmed a security breach exposed the e-mail addresses of 3G iPad
owners.
The breach was first
reported by Gawker.com after a group called Goatse Security exploited a
security hole on AT amp;Ts Website. As a result, the group was able to get its
hands on the e-mail addresses of 114,0…
Google May 21 began adding SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for its search engine, a direct response to the company’s accidental collection of users’ personal information in countries all over the world. When users search from the URL https://www.google.com, the SSL creates an encrypted connection between the user’s browser and Google to better shield users’ search terms and search results pages from being intercepted by a third party, including an errant drive-by from Street View cars roving their neighborhood to capture pictures for Google Maps. – Google May 21 began adding SSL (Secure Sockets
Layer) encryption for its search engine, a direct response to the company’s
accidental collection of users’ personal information in countries all over the
world.
The search engine May 16 admitted that its Street View cars that patrol city streets to…
President Boris Tadić is in the town of MedveÄ‘a, where he addressed students of the faculties of law and economy – departments of the University of NiÅ¡. MedveÄ‘a and two other municipalities in the area, Bujanovac and PreÅ¡evo, are informally known as the PreÅ¡evo valley, and are home to the largest ethnic Albanian population in Serbia outside of Kosovo.
The Ministry for Kosovo urged international factors to take concrete steps, besides the verbal criticism, over a string of recent incidents aimed against Serbs. The ministry said on Saturday that the steps should be such to prevent more attacks and make sure that perpetrators are found and punished.
Serbia’s European path is no longer challenged by anyone, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković told a gathering in Belgrade ahead of Statehood Day. He addressed top officials, as well as diplomatic envoys and other guests gathered at the National Theater in Belgrade on Sunday evening, and said that Serbia is getting “ever closer to EU membership, reestablishing connections with the world that were disrupted for years”.
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić is attending the African Union Council session in Addis Ababa; Ethiopia denies entry to a Kosovo Albanian delegation. Jeremić on Thursday welcomed the fact that as many as 80 percent of the member-states of the African Union (AU) had not recognized Kosovo and called on them to maintain such a stand.
The UN Security Council is debating the situation in Kosovo in New York this Friday, at a session
addressed by Serbian President Boris Tadić. The council is considering the latest report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about the situation in Kosovo, in which Serbia and Kosovo are urged to find a way to put aside the status considerations and commit to the resumption of regional cooperation.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi address Serbian President Boris Tadić as “President Clooney,†jokingly comparing him to film actor George Clooney. “Tadić will be speaking in Serbia, which I don’t find to be a very beautiful language, ours is a lot more musical. I have yet to hear an opera in Serbian,†Berlusconi continued to joke at a press conference following a meeting between the two senior officials.
