Attacks on Iranian Oil Industry Led to Flame Malware Find
Posted by PCWorld
The sophisticated cyber espionage malware known as "Flame" was discovered after computers within Iran's energy industry were wiped clean of data, a security expert said today.
"This was discovered during the investigation of a wiping of Iran's gas companies' computers," Liam O Murchu, manager of operations at Symantec's security response center, said in an interview Tuesday.
RELATED: 'Flame': Lethal Cyberweapon or Media Hype?
O Murchu was referring to reports out of Iran a month ago, when the country's oil ministry confirmed that servers at several companies had been attacked. Later, other officials there acknowledged that the attacks had been aimed at other government ministries and industr[...]
Continue Reading"This was discovered during the investigation of a wiping of Iran's gas companies' computers," Liam O Murchu, manager of operations at Symantec's security response center, said in an interview Tuesday.
RELATED: 'Flame': Lethal Cyberweapon or Media Hype?
O Murchu was referring to reports out of Iran a month ago, when the country's oil ministry confirmed that servers at several companies had been attacked. Later, other officials there acknowledged that the attacks had been aimed at other government ministries and industr[...]
What Will Facebook’s Perfect Storm Of An IPO Leave Behind?
Posted by TechCrunch
The Facebook IPO was supposed to be Silicon Valley’s shining moment. It’s the book-end for the decade of recovery that followed the first wave of consumer Internet companies. It was the debutante ball for the next great Silicon Valley company, the one with the most potential to last a generation or longer.
Instead, it’s turned into a public relations disaster. If we look a little more closely though, the Facebook IPO probably has more devastating consequences for the rest of the late-stage private market than it does for the company itself.
The late-stage market may have to reprice: Facebook is the latest major consumer Internet IPO that has underperformed compared to where[...]
Continue ReadingInstead, it’s turned into a public relations disaster. If we look a little more closely though, the Facebook IPO probably has more devastating consequences for the rest of the late-stage private market than it does for the company itself.
The late-stage market may have to reprice: Facebook is the latest major consumer Internet IPO that has underperformed compared to where[...]
F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference
Posted by TechCrunch
Faster than you can say “Can I borrow your copy of ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People,’” it’s tech conference season again. There hasn’t been a week during the month of May where I haven’t attended a tech conference or traveled to something tech conference-related. And judging by Techmeme’s events calendar the state of affairs only gets worse as we get deeper into summer.
Between Disrupt NYC last week, D10 tomorrow, NY Founders and Le Web London in June, Allen & Co, Sun Valley in July, the CrunchUp in August and TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in September, the tech community is pretty much spending the next couple of months check[...]
Continue ReadingBetween Disrupt NYC last week, D10 tomorrow, NY Founders and Le Web London in June, Allen & Co, Sun Valley in July, the CrunchUp in August and TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in September, the tech community is pretty much spending the next couple of months check[...]
Kleiner Perkins steals Square product head Megan Quinn
Posted by VentureBeat
Major VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers has brought on Square product lead Megan Quinn as a partner today, just a week after partner Ellen Pao sued the company for gender discrimination.
Quinn has spent the last year with Square, the mobile payments company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. There, she headed up Square’s product team, which has recently released a number of new payments-oriented apps (we’ve spoken with her a few times) to go along with its iOS-and-Android focused credit card reader. Prior to her time at Square, Quinn spent seven years at Google leading the Google Maps team.
She will join Kleiner Perkin’s digital group as a partner after ta[...]
Continue ReadingQuinn has spent the last year with Square, the mobile payments company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. There, she headed up Square’s product team, which has recently released a number of new payments-oriented apps (we’ve spoken with her a few times) to go along with its iOS-and-Android focused credit card reader. Prior to her time at Square, Quinn spent seven years at Google leading the Google Maps team.
She will join Kleiner Perkin’s digital group as a partner after ta[...]
Google execs: We’re doing everything we can to stop piracy
Posted by VentureBeat
According to Google, it’s doing everything it can to combat content piracy, and Hollywood needs to step up and help.
In response to Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel’s claim that Google is failing to police content theft, Susan Wojcicki, a senior vice president of advertising for Google, had a simple response:
“I think he was misinformed.”
In fact, Google has invested $30 million and 50,000 engineering hours into developing a system called ContentID, Wojcicki said, and the company has no desire to profit from piracy. The way ContentID works is that content owners upload clips of music or video that they own, and can give Google instructions for how to respond when it encoun[...]
Continue ReadingIn response to Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel’s claim that Google is failing to police content theft, Susan Wojcicki, a senior vice president of advertising for Google, had a simple response:
“I think he was misinformed.”
In fact, Google has invested $30 million and 50,000 engineering hours into developing a system called ContentID, Wojcicki said, and the company has no desire to profit from piracy. The way ContentID works is that content owners upload clips of music or video that they own, and can give Google instructions for how to respond when it encoun[...]
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