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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer, NDS Group, largely cleared the company -- and by extension Tarnovsky -- of piracy,...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Satellite Hacker Tells All

2008-05-31 17:45:10 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer, NDS Group, largely cleared the company and by extension Tarnovsky of piracy, finding...
 
Tags: satellite, rupert murdoch company, tarnovsky, nds guilty, extension tarnovsky, company, satellite-tv, nds, satellite signals
 
 
 
 
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Inside America's Satellite-Killing Missile

2008-02-15 21:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The weapon that the Pentagon wants to use to shoot down a failing satellite is well-tested. But its one weakness could pose a problem, as the military tries to take that satellite out
 
Tags: satellite, pentagon, weapon, weakness, military, pose
 
 
 
 
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Experts Scoff at Satellite Shoot-Down Rationale

2008-02-15 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale "comedic gold
 
Tags: space security experts, toxic gas cloud, spy satellite, comedic gold, rationale, pentagon, threat
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon to Shoot Down Rogue Satellite

2008-02-14 19:15:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Despite cautionary notes from space security veterans, the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March
 
Tags: space security veterans, pentagon, spy satellite, cautionary notes, earth, march, hit
 
 
 
 
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Thalys Hits Glitch in Impressive Train Launch

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2008-05-14 15:50:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...satellite-backed service pulls down 2 Mbps of ruinously expensive backhaul, compressed to provide speeds that feel like 4 Mbps. (Read: faster for email, TIFF images, certain PowerPoint presentations, and Web pages with gzip disabled; normal rate for JPEGs, GIFs, compressed Web pages, and PDFs The service will cost first-class passengers not a...
 
Tags: train, service hit glitches, glitches, service, service pulls, train operator, satellite, satellite technology, nokia siemens
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Mesh in Devices, Florida-Fi, Minneapolis-Fi, LA No-Fi, Harbor-Fi, Parade-Fi

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2008-04-28 13:09:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...satellite" providers, where I think he'll be red-faced to know he should have said cellular. Or the reporter misheard. Say satellite and cellular each ten times fast. Now drink a glass of water Scarborough (Yorkshire Coast, UK) offers free Wi-Fi: 5.5m visitors pass through this coastal town each year, and a local business association has...
 
Tags: free wi-fi, offers free wi-fi, free wi-fi float, parade, reporter steve alexander, unleash free wi-fi, alexander, mesh network, operator
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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2008-06-12 10:22:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...satellite partner, Inmarsat, which has suffered huge delays in launching its birds for service The writer says that air-to-ground service is like Wi-Fi in the sky, but it's using cellular data standards, and so it's much more like mobile broadband in the sky. He also writes that there's 3 Mbps, which is the combined up-and-down estimated...
 
Tags: connexion service, service, sidewalk-pickup boltbus service, access, cost roughly, internet access, roughly, cost, bus
 
 
 
 
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Prediction for 2008: Service providers avoid straightforward DTV answers

2008-01-04 21:12:01 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...satellite, or telephone service companies, and their incentive is to maintain confusion because thats an effective up-sell technique The simple story is that over-the-air (OTA) analog goes away, replaced by OTA digital. For OTA consumers, its just a matter of getting an ATSC tuner (built-in to a newer TV, or standalone with a...
 
Tags: ota, digital ota customer, analog, analog customers, analog ota reception, analog cable customers, analog cable systems, analog channels, cheap basic analog
 
 
 
 
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A TrustedSource for Threats Intell Data

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2007-11-27 17:56:05 by HASH0x89f3234 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...satellite advanced-warning system for the Internet that detects suspicious behavior patterns at their origins, and then instructs security devices to take corrective precautions or action," said Dr. Phyllis Schneck, vice president of research integration for Secure Computing. "TrustedSource pinpoints reputation by looking at behavior and...
 
Tags: user, user starts, instructs security devices, secure, threat intell service, internet driver<