1st May 2011 Archive

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• Aussie crowdsourcers get A$35m

  Ex-Flickr and eBay execs tip in

  Multi-millionaire and founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield is part of a gaggle of high profile investors that have poured US$35 million into Australian crowdsourcing design website 99designs. The first round of VC funding was led by Accel Partners and includes angel investors like former eBay exec Michael Dearing, Dave …

  Financial News 1 May 2011, 22:13

• How two failed capacitors stranded Sydney rail commuters

  Stalled by a LAN switch

  The railway signaling failure which crippled Sydney on April 12 (some commuters reported trips of more than three hours) was caused by a failing LAN switch and software that couldn’t cope, an engineering report has found. The switch, probably a Cisco device given that the Borg is Railcorp’s dominant LAN kit supplier, was part …

  Government 1 May 2011, 22:22

• Sony: 'PSN attacker exploited known vulnerability'

  Preps network for service restart

  Sony is getting ready to return to service some PlayStation Network offerings, amid ongoing analysis to try and identify the source of the April attack on its San Diego data centre hosted in an AT&T network facility. While maintaining that it has not yet seen any evidence that credit card data was compromised in the attack, …

  Security 1 May 2011, 22:37

• Wikileaks: Canadian piracy arrests were favor to movie biz man

  TorrentFreak blames ‘cammer’ overdose death on harassment

  A report on TorrentFreak has linked the overdose death of a Canadian “cammer” (someone who records movies in cinemas on Webcams) to his arrest by the Mounties, even though his activities weren’t a crime in that country. According to a Wikileaks-published cable, Royal Canadian Mounted Police were reluctant to take an interest …

  Law 1 May 2011, 23:06