The latest installment of Operation in our Sites came last week with the seizure of 10 addresses for websites accused of illegally streaming live pay-per-view sporting events. Under the initiative, feds confiscate the internet addresses with no prior warning to the owners, many of whom are located outside US borders.

Owners get no opportunity to argue on behalf of their website until after the domain name is seized. At least 92 domains have been seized under the operation so far.

The intrusions did not compromise the tech-heavy exchange's trading platform, which executes investors' trades, but it was unknown which other sections of the network were accessed, according to the report.

The Nasdaq, which is thought to be as critical from a security standpoint as the national power grid or air traffic control operations, has been targeted by hackers before.

Video of an uncontacted tribe spotted in the Brazilian jungle has been released, bringing them to life in ways that photographs alone cannot.

Brazilian government policy is now to watch from afar, and - at least in principle - to protect uncontacted tribes from intrusion.

Unfortunately, uncontacted tribes usually live in resource-rich areas threatened by logging, mining and other development. There's often pressure on governments to turn a blind eye.

"Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating - unfortunately, without the user's control."

"Scraping people's information violates our terms," said Barry Schnitt, Facebook's director of policy communications.

Moreover, it's a bit funny hearing Facebook complain about scraping of personal data that is quasi-public.

Mark Zuckerberg, the company's founder, made his name at Harvard in 2003 by scraping the names and photos of fellow classmates off school servers to feed a system called FaceMash. With the photos, Zuckerberg created a controversial system that pitted one co-ed against another, by allowing others to vote on which one was better looking.

Tehran and Beijing are doing their best to spin the protests in their favor, when they talk to the world. But at home, they're pursuing a different strategy: trying to muzzle anything but the official line on the upheaval.

Iran has sought to graft its own ideology and history onto the protests - as seems to be popular these days - painting the movements as the Egyptian version of the 1979 Iranian revolution that ushered in its theocracy.

At home, China has blocked internet searches for "Egypt" and reportedly ordered Chinese media to follow the state-run news service Xinhua's line on the protest movements.

It probably doesn't help that the Western press keeps mentioning Tahrir Square in the same breath as the 1989 Tiananmen square protests and subsequent crackdown, It's a chapter of history banned from discussion in China.

Apple recently rejected an iPhone app that would have allowed customers to purchase and read e-books sold through the Sony Reader Store, and Apple told Sony that all in-app purchases would now go through Apple, Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading division, told the newspaper.

The new policy would effectively cut off Amazon.com and other companies that sell e-readers that compete with Apple's iPad, the Times noted. Many e-readers offer mobile apps that allow content purchased in their online stores to be read on other devices, including the iPad.

The first letters, or strikes, we're sent out last October, and a study has shown that only 4% were to quit.

Now Toubon is making the graduated response system seem even more ridiculous by claiming that the the 'Creation and Internet' law also covers illegal streaming and that users of these sites will be targeted just like users of illegal P2P applications and services.

It's amazing that he even thinks that users of illegal streaming sites could be monitored.

The wall of scalps is a source of pride for Facebook's security team and is representative of the company's aggressive, no-holds-barred approach to keeping fraudsters and thieves away from its more than 500 million users.

On Christmas Day, the security staff started hearing complaints from political activists in Tunisia--who had been protesting against the government since December--that their Facebook accounts were being compromised.

Facebook came up with a solution to fix the problem and began rolling it out to users in Tunisia over the next week.

For instance, Bross told Ars that "the flash chips used in the iPad have several layers of NAND flash stacked on top of each other." Each of those layers has to be analyzed separately, and data from each layer has to be mixed together just the right way to re-create the logical format of the volume stored in the flash chip.

Sometimes the chips can be easily desoldered, while in other cases the chips are covered in epoxy resins that have to be carefully removed to prevent damage to the NAND flash inside.

Criminal investigations "are being frustrated" because no law currently exists to force Internet providers to keep track of what their customers are doing, the U.S. Department of Justice told Congress.

"The problem of investigations being stymied by a lack of data retention is growing worse."