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  • Researchers release point-and-click website exploitation tool

    'Tons' of vulnerable sites

    Researchers have released software that exposes private information and executes arbitrary code on sensitive websites by exploiting weaknesses in a widely used web development technology. Short for Padding Oracle Exploitation Tool, Poet is able to decrypt secret data encrypted by the JavaServer Faces web development framework …

    Security 8 Jun 00:34

  • Apple debuts Safari 5 for Mac and Windows

    JavaScript boost, extensions, 'article' reader

    Apple has released Safari 5 for both Mac and Windows. There was no mention of the Apple's latest web browser this morning at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco, but the company did spit out a press release in tandem with its release detailing the iPhone 4, due on June 24; iOS 4 (née iPhone OS 4.0), due …

    Software 8 Jun 00:51

  • Asigra extends into the cloud

    White box online backup for laptops

    Disk-to-disk backup supplier Asigra is extending out to the cloud and improving virtualisation support with Cloud Backup v10.0. Asigra offers DS-Client backup of desktops and physical and virtual servers to a central site with a DS-System backup set store and BLM archive for older data. It has added support for laptops in the …

    Storage 8 Jun 05:02

  • Steve Irwin surveillance-crocodiles travel across oceans

    Croc-botherer devised 'innovative capture techniques'

    Before his death, legendary Aussie reptile-botherer Steve Irwin helped to plant tracking bugs on a large number of saltwater crocodiles. Boffins analysing data from the bugs now report that the crocs, despite being poor swimmers who mainly live in shallow estuarine waters, are capable of making long ocean voyages. This little …

    Biology 8 Jun 06:02

  • Jobs: iPhone sales spank Android

    'You will read this survey. And only this survey'

    Steve Jobs suggests that you should forget anything you may have read about Android sales surpassing iPhone sales in the US. "There have been a lot of stats floating around, market research, studies. Some are okay, some are questionable," Jobs said Monday when announcing the iPhone 4, according to Engadget. The most …

    Mobile 8 Jun 06:02

  • TomTom Start2 satnav

    Review Start trek, the next generation

    TomTom’s entry-level Start satnav got the RegHardware treatment back at the tail end of 2009, with the overall judgement being that it was a decent enough piece of kit but just a little too pricey. The Start2 – TomTom’s update to its no-nonsense satnav Now TomTom has released an updated version in the form of the Start2. In …

    reghardware 8 Jun 07:02

  • VM6 Software punts Hyper-V wrangler

    How to tame your hypervisor

    Server virtualization is not as easy as vendors make it sound, which is why VM6 Software has created a set of tools that may make using Hyper-V a whole lot easier. On Monday, VM6 Software — a server virtualization consulting company that has transformed itself into a virtualization tool provider — began shipping the latest …

    Virtualization 8 Jun 07:02

  • Nominet announces Baroness as new chair

    Rennie Fritchie to head Board of dot-uk registry

    A Baroness, Dame Commander, pro-chancellor, and training and development expert has been chosen as the new chair of dot-uk registry Nominet. Baroness Rennie Fritchie replaces former chairman Bob Gilbert, who stepped down in March, and she takes over from interim chairman Gordon Dick. She becomes chair at an interesting time: …

    Networks 8 Jun 07:02

  • Defra spent £82m with IBM last year

    More than next two suppliers combined

    Spending data released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has revealed IBM to be the department's biggest supplier. The list, released by Defra under Freedom of Information on 7 June 2010, shows that it paid IBM UK a total of £82.2m in 2009-10. The firm, which provides the department with most of its IT …

    Channel Register 8 Jun 07:40

  • Military sat supplier buys UK crypto disc firm

    Belt and braces

    US satellite comms firm ViaSat last week bought UK secure hard drive maker Stonewood for $20m in cash and stock. Stonewood, based in Wareham, Dorset, makes encrypted hard drives with management capabilities which it sells to governments and the military. Its main products include the FlagStone and external Eclypt Freedom …

    Government 8 Jun 07:46

  • Emulex buys ServerEngines

    Big money for small storage company

    Emulex is buying ServerEngines, thus securing its core FCoE technology. FCoE is Fibre Channel over Ethernet, the sending of Fibre Channel data frames across an Ethernet link. There are two dominant Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) companies: Emulex and QLogic. Both are moving energetically into FCoE and QLogic has an …

    Storage 8 Jun 08:10

  • PC sales boast record quarter

    Compared to awful start to '09 admittedly

    Figures released last week show PC sales have grown 23 per cent compared to last year, pushed mainly by growing demand in Asia. In the first quarter of 2010 81.5 million PCs were shipped, compared to 66.5 million in the first three months of 2009. Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms at iSuppli, said it …

    Channel Register 8 Jun 08:20

  • Public backs pirate punishment - poll

    Freetards find little sympathy, much indifference

    Surprisingly strong public support for punishing copyright freeloaders has emerged in a new poll. It suggests that activists have a job on their hands persuading the public that infringers are the Robin Hoods of the village - they might even be the village idiots. 48 per cent of people polled agreed that repeat infringers who …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 08:54

  • iPhone 4 splashes down on both sides of the pond

    Pre-orders open June 15, but no carrier exclusive

    Vodafone, O2 and Phones 4U have all said they'll be selling Apple's new baby by the end of the month, but no-one is talking pricing just yet. Vodafone and O2 have both told us they'll have the iPhone 4 on sale on the 24th June, and both companies are still working on pricing and tariff options. Vodafone has already created a …

    Mobile 8 Jun 08:59

  • Resurrecting old jargon

    Lab BI versus decision support?

    No one disputes the fact that there’s a lot of data kicking around in most businesses. Neither are there arguments about how hard it is to find relevant information when you need it. Sure, there are exceptions, and some very progressive businesses manage their so called ’information assets’ extremely well, but for most of the …

    Platform Evolution 8 Jun 09:13

  • EDS' dodgy Sky contract costs HP £318m

    That's a lot of HD boxes

    HP will pay Sky a total of £318m to settle a landmark court case over a botched customer service systems deal. The deal was worth only £48m when it was won in 2000 by EDS, which HP bought in 2008. Sky parted with the contractor acrimonously in 2001, and the installation eventually took six years and cost £265m, the High Court …

    Channel Register 8 Jun 09:19

  • Orange, O2 to offer iPhone 4 on 24 June

    Vodafone too

    Both O2 and Orange have pledged to offer the iPhone 4 in the UK. So has Vodafone. All three operators will release the device on 24 June. However, none of them will say how much they will charge for the device itself or what changes, if any, they will make to their existing iPhone contracts and pay-as-you-go packages. O2 …

    reghardware 8 Jun 09:31

  • New cycle helmets emit stench if they need replacement

    Skid-lid bonk-stink crack tech cracked in Germany

    Remorseless German boffins have come up with the greatest boon to humanity since self-warming hand cream: they have invented cycle helmets which begin to smell disgusting once they need to be replaced. Many cyclists like to wear helmets in order to protect the bonce in the event of a mishap. The cheapest and lightest type of …

    Science 8 Jun 09:42

  • The challenges of on-demand IT

    Webcast Virtualized, outsourced and stuck in a cloud

    On June 10 at 11am here in Blighty we'll be packing our studio with a raft of experts to talk about how virtualization and the promise of cloud services are challenging the conventional economics, management and delivery of IT. Hosting the event will be The Register's own Tim Phillips, joined by Martin Atherton from Freeform …

    Platform Evolution 8 Jun 09:55

  • Sony readies family friendly touchscreen PC

    21-incher

    Sony is taking on HP's TouchSmart family with a touchscreen-equipped all-on-one PC line of its own. Due to debut in July, the Vaio J series sports a 21.5in display with 1920 x 1080 resolution and "multiple lamp" backlighting. It's driven by a 2.26GHz Intel Core i3-350M processor and an Nvidia GeForce 310M 512MB graphics chip …

    reghardware 8 Jun 09:57

  • Stephen Fry's truly terrible mistake

    Opinion DAB Profundis

    It's little wonder that Stephen Fry holds such a place in the nation's affections. He's earned it through a string of unforgettable performances. There's his voiceover for Direct Line's pet insurance, his voiceover for the 2008 Argos catalogue, not to mention voiceovers for Anchor Butter, Tesco, Dairylea, Kenco, Coca Cola, …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 10:02

  • Orange Power Wellies: march and charge your mobe

    Boot 'em up

    Stuck in the mud and powerless? Orange is taking groundbreaking steps in the eco world to replace carbon footprints with muddy footprints. Step forward the Orange Power Wellies; footwear that generates electricity. If you keep running, your phone will too Renewable energy experts GotWind, has collaborated with Orange to …

    reghardware 8 Jun 10:14

  • Council staff helping selves to data

    Security breaches up sixfold

    Official claims that "your data is safe with us" suffered another body blow at the weekend with revelations of a dramatic rise in hacking of the UK’s tax and benefit mega-database by council staff. In most cases, councils appear to have concluded that the appropriate penalty for such unlawful prying into personal lives has …

    ID 8 Jun 10:21

  • ID card scheme barely broke 13,000 mark, minister confirms

    Wishful counting by previous incumbents?

    The Labour government's flagship ID card scheme attracted just 13,200 signups before it was finally put down by the new coalition, a Commons answer revealed yesterday. The figure is even less than the 15,000 figure being bandied around when the ToryDems confirmed that they would indeed scrap the white elephant/albatross scheme …

    Government 8 Jun 10:23

  • How to organise that World Cup pub crawl

    Handy app for catching matches

    Looking for a pub to watch the World Cup while drinking beer with your mates? Plan your pub crawl Footy Pubs 2010 is the latest Nokia and iPhone app to show you where to go. Open the app and get your directions to local pubs showing games. Find a place to surveil a game Developed by Drinksin, the app works anywhere in the …

    reghardware 8 Jun 10:25

  • Hackers plant malware on Jerusalem Post website

    Scattergun opportunists

    Hackers compromised the website of the Jerusalem Post on Monday so that it served up malware. The attack relied on planting scripts on the site itself, rather than the more common tactic of compromising its ad-serving system to serve tainted ads. The attack ultimately attempted to dump Windows-based malware on the Windows PCs …

    Malware 8 Jun 10:26

  • Tesco IT director gets top job

    Sir Terry hands down the golden Clubcard

    Tesco's IT director will take over as boss of the country's largest retailer when Sir Terry Leahy steps down as chief executive next March, it was announced this morning. Philip Clarke, 50, will take the helm after 29 years at Tesco. As well as overseeing the group's IT operations and strategy, Clarke is currently in charge …

    IT Director 8 Jun 10:43

  • Microsoft starts Office Web Apps roll out

    Hopes SkyDrive service won't nosedive

    Microsoft has released its Office Web Apps in the UK via its online SkyDrive storage service. The software giant plans to roll out its rival to Google Docs gradually. Currently it is only available to the US, Ireland, Blighty and Canada. Redmond has slotted the tools into its Windows Live service, so it now sits alongside …

    Applications 8 Jun 10:57

  • Yahoo! signs up Becks as footie pundit

    World! Cup! Marketing! Yay! etc

    David Beckham has signed up with Yahoo! as a pundit, commenting on the upcoming World Cup as well as the upcoming 2010/11 football season. As a "global football ambassador" the former Man Utd and Real Madrid star will also feature in Yahoo's marketing campaigns. Cynics might say that Yahoo is inviting unfavourable comparison …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 10:59

  • British Library sinks beneath Strategy Boutique spam

    Can it tell the difference?

    Webinar: Monitoring holistic social media conversations There's always something uncomfortable about watching an ancient institution when it comes over all entrepreneurial; there's usually something dad-at-the-disco about it. But hats off to the British Library for attempting to channel some of the post-Falklands exuberance, …

    Spam 8 Jun 11:02

  • Smartphones to outsell PCs by 2012

    Online advertising worth $50bn a year in US

    Morgan Stanley reckons online advertising is worth $50bn a year in America alone, and that smartphones will rapidly become the platform of choice. According to the analyst's Internet Trends report smartphones will outsell feature phones next year, but the crystal ball-gazing comes with a plethora of facts and figures about …

    Channel Register 8 Jun 11:30

  • BT betters pay offer under strike threat

    Updated Dangles 3% rise over workers

    BT has made another pay offer to the Communications Workers Union (CWU) in the hope of avoiding a strike. As is standard form for industrial disputes, details of a letter sent late last night were leaked to the media this morning. It improves on the two per cent, one year offer rejected by the CWU with the promise of a three …

    Telecoms 8 Jun 11:31

  • SA vultures under threat from brain-smoking gamblers

    World Cup moron antics may lead to extinction

    Conservations have warned that the World Cup could finish off a rare South African vulture because locals believe smoking the beasts' brains will help them win big in footie-related bets. Mark Anderson of BirdLife South Africa said in a statement that the Cape vultures were already in trouble, as a result of reduced food …

    Bootnotes 8 Jun 11:32

  • China sidesteps Great Firewall with web roadmap

    They fluffing love it

    The Chinese government has issued a white paper laying out current, and future, internet policy - and you might not recognise its view of internet use in that country. There is little talk of the Great Firewall and much of social responsibility and the benefits internet access can bring to citizens, and to government. Although …

    Government 8 Jun 11:52

  • Sony BDV-E370 Blu-ray home cinema kit

    Review See no evil, hear no evil

    If you can’t be bothered messing around with a separate Blu-ray player, amp and surround sound speaker set-up, then an all-in-one home cinema kit such as the BDV-E370 from Sony may be just the sort of set up you’re looking for. Sound and vision: Sony's BDV-E370 The main unit combines a Blu-ray player with an integrated amp …

    reghardware 8 Jun 12:02

  • Painting for Emos

    'I cut my wrist in a school bathroom'

    It's like Post Secret, but for Paint addicts To draw a secret click HERE (online tool) Welcome to the world of Draw Secret, a new community for people who turn their secrets into pictures using a drawing tool called Flockdraw. Some submissions are skilful. But what a miserable crew: weight, unrequited love, loneliness are …

    reghardware 8 Jun 12:09

  • The World's best World Cup Calendar (maybe)

    Flashy match tracker

    Are you sick of World Cup magazine pull-outs? Do you want one super encompassing index of when and where everything is happening? Check out Marca.com's Interactive 2010 World Cup Calendar. It isn't only football teams that can get in-formation This nifty flash application provides details of scheduling, team listings and …

    reghardware 8 Jun 12:10

  • Microsoft pushes WP7 plans for enterprise

    Struggles to shout about iPhone racket

    Microsoft was always going to struggle to get coverage of its TechEd developer conference, and particularly its Windows Phone 7 plans, in the week of iPhone 4. But it is trying its best, outlining the WP7 strategy for its most natural market, the mobile enterprise. In addition, details of one of the first WP7 handsets likely to …

    Mobile 8 Jun 12:18

  • Operators' EU roaming challenge sent home

    Caps on roaming are legal and proportionate. Sorry

    A legal challenge to the EU's capping of roaming rates, brought by the UK's four biggest networks, has failed at the European Court of Justice. Strictly speaking the case was against the UK's implementation of the rules, and thus was launched at the High Court of England and Wales in 2007 when the new rules were passed by the …

    Mobile 8 Jun 12:21

  • New laser raygun tech: Our sharks kick the tyres

    'Molten wax' energy backblast preventer checked out

    Raygun fans will be overjoyed today to hear that a major problem of energy weapons - the fact that they tend to be hugely more devastating to themselves and their users than they are to their targets - may soon be solved. No, really. Even the very latest laser and high-powered microwave weapons have beam efficiencies well …

    Science 8 Jun 12:35

  • Ten Essential World Cup Apps

    Product Round-up Android 5, iOS 5

    Kick off is mere days away - this coming Friday, no less, with South Africa vs Mexico and Uruguay playing France - so now's the time to get your smartphone loaded up with World Cup goodies. Whether you'll be watching from home, at a friend's house, down the pub - or even in South Africa itself, here are our ten favourite apps, …

    reghardware 8 Jun 13:02

  • Apple adds 'make the web go away' button to Safari 5

    Ads, branding, icky typefaces disappeared by Reader

    Steve Jobs didn't get around to mentioning Safari 5 in his WWDC keynote last night, but it rolled out anyway shortly after he finished up, and today publishers throughout the world are surely beginning to wonder, 'hang on, what's this Reader thing?' Safari 5 has a nice little button next to the URL that effectively kills the …

    Applications 8 Jun 13:07

  • DHS deploys HD 'video quilting' chandeliers in Boston

    'You can zoom in close... AND CLOSER'

    The Department of Homeland Security, gigantic government security octopus of the USA, has announced plans to wrap Americans in a huge "high resolution video quilt". The DHS vid-quilt tech is called the Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS), and uses a "discreet, chandelier-like frame — no bigger than a basketball" …

    Science 8 Jun 13:54

  • Symbian integrates Chinese search

    And a font, but not for showing results

    Symbian will be creating APIs for integrating search into applications for China-based Baidu, but at least they'll be readable by the locals thanks to the newly-open-sourced MYuppy font. MYuppy was owned by Monotype but is now an open-source font ideally suited to displaying Simplified Chinese, in combination with Latin …

    Applications 8 Jun 14:59

  • Murdoch taps Telegraph for new tech boss

    Another brickie for the paywall

    Rupert Murdoch's News International is getting a new technology boss - pinched from rival paper, and website, the Telegraph. Paul Cheesbrough will replace News Int's current CIO Andrew Hickey who is apparently looking for consultancy work. Despite the glowing quotes from NI's chief executive Rebekah Brooks, some blamed Hickey …

    IT Director 8 Jun 15:23

  • Strathclyde Police website pulled offline, possible hack probed

    A bad case of robint-hitus?

    Strathclyde Police's website has been out of action for nearly 24 hours while its IT team investigate whether the force's online portal has been compromised by Chinese hackers. A spokeswoman at Strathclyde told The Register that the site had been taken down as a "precaution" to find out what had gone wrong. She was unable to …

    Enterprise Security 8 Jun 16:00

  • China net addicts' great escape foiled by taxi drivers

    Jail breakers silenced commandant with duvet

    An attempt by 14 desperate Chinese internet addicts to break out of an online re-education centre was foiled when the taxis they'd hired to facilitate their getaway dropped them off at the nearest nick. The 14 teenagers burst out of the internet addiction bootcamp in Jiangsu after overpowering the commandant teacher and tying …

    Bootnotes 8 Jun 16:01

  • Adobe lines up emergency Flash fix

    Reader and Acrobat fixes to follow

    Adobe plans to release a patch for an unpatched cross-platform flaw in Flash on Thursday (10 June), as a partial response to a critical bug that has become the target of hacking attacks over recent days. However, updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat - which is also affected by the same zero-bug thanks to a vulnerable component …

    Enterprise Security 8 Jun 16:05

  • Art and engineering: do they mix? Yes they do!

    Scientific award for outstanding artwork

    Physicist and engineer Colin Tregenza Dancer has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his contribution to British engineering. Colin helps leading contemporary artist Paul Fryer to create works that bridge the gap between art and science. Perpetual Study in Defeat, 2006. Alternatively known as Star in …

    reghardware 8 Jun 16:06

  • Unix in the UK: Mission critical!

    Report shows cost worries among IT managers

    Hewlett-Packard has blades on the brain for both "industry standard" and "mission critical" servers, but IT managers in the United Kingdom seem to be more worried about the cost of their mission critical platforms, generally Unix boxes, according to a report released by Coleman Parkes Research. HP and its public relations firm …

    Servers 8 Jun 16:15

  • Pro Gamers: Brains the size of a planet and lungs the size of a pea

    Young men resemble 60 yr-old chain smokers

    Pro gamers have the mental reflexes of a test pilot and the physical abilities of a potato. Dr Dominic Micklewright (left) from the University of Essex has been testing elite computer gamers to compare how they match up to professional athletes. The findings are far from surprising, with pro gamers recording extremely low …

    reghardware 8 Jun 16:23

  • Apple lifted 'make web go away' button from open source

    And that's news to the open sourcers

    Apple Safari's new "make web go away" button is based on an open source project distributed under the Apache 2 license. The Safari Reader – which debuted yesterday with version 5 of the Apple browser — is built using the source code for Readability, an Apache project from Arc90 Labs. In the wake of the browser's release, Arc90 …

    Developer 8 Jun 17:52

  • Conviction and confusion in Microsoft's cloud strategy

    Microsoft TechEd With progress comes ambiguity

    Microsoft's Windows platform may be under attack from the cloud, but you wouldn't know it here at the company's TechEd in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference is a sell-out, with 10,500 attendees mostly on the IT professional side of the industry, in contrast to last year's event in Los Angeles, California, which only …

    Servers 8 Jun 17:54

  • Safari purged of decade-old browser history leak

    Free at last

    Apple Safari has become the first major browser to be purged of one of the web's longest-running privacy defects: The ability for any site owner to effortlessly steal a complete copy of your recent browsing history. The browser history disclosure leak is as old as the World Wide Web itself, and it afflicted every major browser …

    Security 8 Jun 18:27

  • Turkey bans Google Books, Google Docs, Google Translate...

    Collateral damage from YouTube snuff?

    Turkey has banned multiple Google services, according to reports, including Google Translate, Google Docs, and Google Books. But Mountain View believes the ban is accidental, a side effect of Turkey's longstanding ban on the Google-owned YouTube. According to the International Business Times, Turkey’s Telecommunications …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 19:38

  • Novell wants a piece of Sun Oracle

    Get in line, behind everyone else

    Everybody wants a piece of the former Sun Microsystems, now the server, storage, and operating system arm of software giant Oracle. And starting today, that list of piranhas swimming after Sun includes struggling commercial Linux distributor and systems software maker Novell. Sun's customers have been jumpy for so long that …

    Servers 8 Jun 19:48

  • Safari 5 off to Apple's traditional rough start

    Updated Third-party devs take the blame

    Apple's Safari 5 has been out for just one day, but — as is usual with integer-level upgrades — users are already reporting niggles, nuisances, and no-goes. Over on Macintouch, for example, we first learned of Safari 5's annoyance with third-party plug-ins, specifically SafariStand. Mike Solomon, the creator of the SIMBL ( …

    Applications 8 Jun 19:49

  • BP grabs 'oil spill' keywords on Google

    Ads serve lovely Gulf of Mexico pics

    BP is purchasing search keywords such as "oil spill" on Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! in an effort to spin the ongoing clusterf**k in the Gulf of Mexico. As noticed by the International Business Times and others, if you search on "oil spill" on Google, Bing, or Yahoo!, you may see a BP ad appear at the top of the results …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 21:00

  • Apple releases moving pictures of Steve Jobs keynote

    You too can witness reality distortion

    Apple today released the full video of Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, featuring the iPhone 4 as introduced by huckstermeister extraordinaire Steve Jobs. The video lasts one hour, fifty-two minutes, and forty-six seconds — from the ovation as Jobs enters stage right to the crowd exiting to the strains of …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 21:12

  • Virtualizing the hard stuff

    Webcast Databases and mission critical workloads

    Most Reg readers have moved on from the early days of virtualizing servers, when the idea was simply to consolidate and save floor space. Yesterday’s virtualization beta-testers are now fully versed in the virtualization game, and they're looking to get more bang for their buck with real projects that deliver benefits across …

    Virtualization 8 Jun 21:21

  • Major League Baseball hunts for trolls posting porn

    Seeks subpoena naming anonymous genitalia uploaders

    Major League Baseball is seeking a court order requiring an internet service provider to identify people posting pornographic images and threats to parts of its MLB.com website, Reuters reports. Attorneys for the league asked a New York state judge on Thursday for a subpoena that would order St. Louis-based Charter …

    ID 8 Jun 21:33

  • England win World Cup, says dried vulture brain

    It's a kind of footie muti magic

    Footie punters eager to know if their team has any possibility of winning the world cup would do well to take note of the shamanic powers of vulture brains, whose far-seeing powers can apparently foresee if, for example, England are going to screw up yet again in the essential penalty shoot-out. According to South African …

    Odds and Sods 8 Jun 22:52

  • Storage shop ParaScale shrinks itself

    Reconfigured after failed B-round

    Cloud file storage supplier ParaScale has failed to raise funds in a B-round and is having to cut costs and conserve its dwindling cash. The company has cancelled its external PR contract and an unspecified number of people are to leave the company. This includes Marketing and Business Development VP Jack Norris, who was just …

    Storage 8 Jun 23:50

  • Bank of America insider admits he stole sensitive customer data

    Account balances under $100,000 need not apply

    An employee in one of Bank of America's customer call centers has admitted he stole sensitive account information and tried to sell it for cash. Brian Matty Hagen said he met with two individuals whom he later learned were undercover FBI agents and offered to sell them names, dates of birth, telephonic passwords, and other …

    Crime 8 Jun 23:57