Hacker group claims access to 12M Apple device IDs

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	Hacker group claims access to 12M Apple device IDs Hacker group AntiSec has published what it claims is about 1 million unique device identifier numbers for Apple devices that it said it accessed earlier this year from a computer belonging to an FBI agent. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? 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Darlene Storm: FBI tracking 12 million Apple device users? AntiSec dumps digital dirt on 1 million JR Raphael: The trouble with the tech launch traffic jam RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday Apple slates Sept. 12 event, hints at iPhone 5 Apple today announced a Sept. 12 event in San Francisco to unveil its newest iPhone. Read More Mozilla exits iOS as it retires Firefox Home Two years after it managed to place a browser-related app on the iOS App Store, Mozilla has reited Firefox Home and yanked it from Apple's market. Read More New Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition chip cracks 3GHz barrier Intel has started shipping 21 new processors for laptops and desktops, including a new Core i7 chip with a base clock speed of 3GHz, a new high for the company's mobile processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. Read More Judge orders Oracle to pay Google $1M for court costs A judge ordered Oracle to pay about $1 million to Google for costs related to the companies' lawsuit over the Android mobile OS. The ruling is only a partial victory for Google, which had originally sought about $4 million. Read More Windows Server 2012 embraces the data center Microsoft has taken its server OS a giant step forward with Tuesday's release of Windows Server 2012, making this version the first that can be controlled remotely so it is more suitable for data centers. Read More INSIDER IT needs to use metrics to move out of the shadows The IT department should behave like every other department in the company and forthrightly explain what it is up to. Insider (registration required) Read More Windows Phone 8 launch is make-or-break moment for Nokia, says analyst On Wednesday, Nokia and Microsoft are once again taking the stage together to launch Nokia's second-generation Windows Phones. Read More Democrats call for Internet 'freedom,' cybersecurity laws The Democratic Party embraced its version of Internet freedom and called for new cybersecurity legislation in its platform released as the party begins its convention in Charlotte. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault The Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault contains concise videos on topics related to running Microsoft Exchange in a virtualized environment. View Now! Oracle appeals $306M settlement in TomorrowNow lawsuit against SAP Oracle is appealing a US$306 million settlement in the TomorrowNow corporate-theft case against German competitor SAP, according to court documents. Read More SIIA, FAST to target more software pirates Two trade groups focused on fighting software piracy have signed a partnership agreement, with the goal of bringing more cases against people and businesses using unlicensed software. Read More Proposed EU radio reshuffle could mean more spectrum for 5GHz Wi-Fi The European Commission has no plans to force spectrum license holders to give free access to their frequencies. Read More Richi Jennings: #AntiSec: FBI has data on 12 million iPhone/iPad users Our Anonymous 'friends' at LulzSec have reappeared, this time alleging that the FBI is tracking iOS device users. They claim to have copied information from an FBI laptop that lists more than 12 million Apple Unique Device IDs, with their associated personal information. They've published a small sample -- suitably redacted -- as proof. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder how -- if true -- such data collection could be legal. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Why the Bruce Willis Apple iTunes story matters Bruce Willis may not be suing Apple over the rights to bequest his digital music collection to his daughters, but perhaps he should -- and if he did he'd find himself facing the music industry in his attempt to regain consumer rights in the online age. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: If Apple makes robots, will robots have rights? Robotics has to be in Apple's development thinking. It is a logical extension of the iPhone Siri capability six or a dozen generations from today. Imagine that Apple will develop a walking, smiling and talking version of your iPhone. Read More Darlene Storm: FBI tracking 12 million Apple device users? AntiSec dumps digital dirt on 1 million How unhappy would you be if you discovered that the FBI is using device information to track citizens? No; we are not talking about people who are allegedly terrorists . . . unless there are 12 million potential terrorists who prefer Apple devices? AntiSec hackers leaked one million Apple device UDIDs allegedly nabbed from an FBI computer and further claim there are about 12 million iPad, iPhone and other Apple devices on the fed's list. Read More JR Raphael: The trouble with the tech launch traffic jam Mobile device-makers seem to think it's smart to launch their products at the same time as everyone else, but the traffic-jam mentality isn't actually helping anyone. Read More
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