Featured Slideshow

Microsoft says new Kinect for Windows sensor coming in 2014

Friday, May 24, 2013

Posted by l33tdawg

Hardware, Kinect, Microsoft

33 comment(s)

Microsoft will make available a new Kinect sensor for Windows in 2014, officials said on May 23.The new Kinect for Windows sensor will include many of the technologies that Microsoft showed off in... read more

Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War

Friday, May 24, 2013

Posted by l33tdawg

Google, Industry News, Waze

0 comment(s)

Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter... read more

FiOS customer discovers the limits of "unlimited" data: 77TB a month

Friday, May 24, 2013

Posted by l33tdawg

Fiber, Industry News, Networking

0 comment(s)

Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon representative... read more

Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M

Friday, May 24, 2013

Posted by l33tdawg

Dropbox, Industry News

0 comment(s)

When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public. People could download the email organizer, but using it... read more

Spam and the Byzantine Empire: How Bitcoin tech REALLY works

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Posted by l33tdawg

BitCoin, Technology

0 comment(s)

Why does Bitcoin work? Fraudsters should have left it in cinders years ago, and might have done, if it wasn’t for two things: spam and the Byzantine Empire.A Bitcoin is basically an entry in a ledger... read more

Belgium

Belgian bank Elantis blackmailed by hackers over unencrypted customer data

Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-05-04 08:22

Hackers claimed to have breached the systems of the Belgian credit provider Elantis and threatened to publish confidential customer information if the bank does not pay €150,000 (£122,000) before Friday, May 4, they said in a statement posted to Pastebin. Elantis confirmed the data breach on Thursday, but the bank said it will not give in to extortion threats. 

Tags: 

Belgium

Hackers

Encryption

Industry News

Security

• Read more about Belgian bank Elantis blackmailed by hackers over unencrypted customer data
• Log in or register to post comments
• 1665 reads

• Tweet