SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 16 records
 
Expand article

Wee-Fi: Mumbai Blast Leads to Open Network; NullRiver's App Nullified; Copper Substitute

The Article has images
2008-08-04 09:56:36 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Mumbai man's open wireless network used to send bomb claim: An American expatriate, Kenneth Haywood, left his Wi-Fi network open in Mumbai, and police allege it was used to send email claiming responsibility for a bomb blast that killed 42 people. The Guardian reports that Haywood says his email account was also hacked. Police say that someone...
 
Tags: haywood, kenneth haywood, iphone, iphone devices, att, 15th-floor apartment haywood, att offers, mumbai, police
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Mumbai Attack Aftermath Detailed, Tweet by Tweet

2008-11-26 21:44:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
First-hand accounts of the deadly Mumbai attacks are pouring in on Twitter, Flickr and other social media
 
Tags: deadly mumbai attacks, social media, first-hand accounts, twitter, flickr
 
 
 
 
Expand article

In Mumbai, bloggers and Twitter offer help to relatives

2008-11-27 00:00:00 by John Ribeiro in Network World on Security
 
Bloggers pitched in offering information and other help to people worldwide as Indian police and commandos battled it out Thursday with armed terrorists in two top hotels and a residential complex in south Mumbai
 
Tags: armed terrorists, bloggers, south mumbai, indian police, top hotels, people worldwide, residential complex, commandos, information
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Mumbai terrorism, worm warning, holiday woe

2008-11-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472bc8 in Network World on Security
 
A wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai late Wednesday dominated the news this week, with bloggers and people using Twitter helping to get information to families and friends of those affected. Multinational technology companies are not expected to change their business strategies as a consequence of the stunning attacks, which...
 
Tags: attacks, multinational technology companies, terrorist attacks, business strategies, mumbai, consequence, friends, twitter, bloggers
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Lessons from Mumbai

2008-12-01 08:03:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Mumbai terrorist attacks, and I expect it'll be a long time before we get a lot of the details. What we know is horrific, and my sympathy goes out to the survivors of the dead (and the injured, who often seem to get ignored as people focus on death tolls). Without discounting the awfulness of the events, I have some initial observations...
 
Tags: mumbai terrorist attacks, attacks, people, armed people intent, people focus, focus, terrorists, terrorism, terrorist
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Gadgets of the Mumbai Attacks

2008-12-01 14:39:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The Mumbai terrorists used an array of commercial technologies -- from Blackberries to GPS navigators to anonymous e-mail accounts -- to pull off their heinous attacks
 
Tags: anonymous e-mail accounts, gps navigators, heinous attacks, commercial technologies, mumbai terrorists, blackberries, array, pull
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Mumbai Terrorists Used Google Earth, Boats, Food

2008-12-08 14:20:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Mumbai terrorists used Google Earth to help plan their attacks. This is bothering some people: Google Earth has previously come in for criticism in India, including from the country's former president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Kalam warned in a 2005 lecture that the easy availability online of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google...
 
Tags: google earth, terrorists, mumbai terrorists, bad guys, bad, kalam, easy availability online, guys, abdul kalam
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Chairman Tata Surprised by Tricky Terrorists

2008-12-01 01:29:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Mumbai, gave a frank and honest interview to CNN. I would imagine that the Tata Group's PR people and General Counsel are scrambling at the moment trying to do as much damage control as possible The sad part of this unfolding story is the feeling one gets that the terrible loss of life at the hotel may have been prevented or at least...
 
Tags: security measures, proper security measures, tata, security, security advisor, chairman tata, chairman rata tata, taj, taj hotel
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Communications During Terrorist Attacks are Not Bad

2008-12-01 12:02:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Mumbai: News on the Bombay attacks is breaking fast on Twitter with hundreds of people using the site to update others with first-hand accounts of the carnage The website has a stream of comments on the attacks which is being updated by the second, often by eye-witnesses and people in the city. Although the chatter cannot be verified...
 
Tags: attacks, people, calms people, twitter user, twitter, helps people, terrorist attacks, twitter users, exchange information
 
 
 
 
Expand article

16-Year Old Indian Hacker Says College Useless

2008-06-17 11:10:42 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource