18th December 2010 Archive
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Gawker tech boss admits site security was crap
'We lost your trust and don't deserve it back'
Gawker Media plans to overhaul its web infrastructure and require employees to use two-factor authentication when accessing sensitive documents stored online, following an embarrassing attack that completely rooted the publisher's servers. The publisher of Gawker, Gizmodo, and seven other popular websites also plans to, gasp, …
Security 18 Dec 00:57
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European Commission to cough €12m for software badnesses
Developers' rights lost in translation
The European Commission must pay software firm Systran €12 million in damages for infringing its copyright when it asked other companies to work on Systran's software, the EU's General Court has ruled. Systran created a specially adapted version of its Systran-Unix machine translation software for the Commission, calling it EC …
Government 18 Dec 09:00
