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  1. Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names

    Tech · Internet · · posted by timothy · from the get-out-your-thesaurus dept. · 249 comments
    Nite_Hawk writes "Bank of America has snapped up hundreds of abusive domain names for its senior executives and board members in what is being perceived as a defensive strategy against the future publication of damaging insider info from whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of directors' and senior executives' names followed by 'sucks' and 'blows.'"

  2. Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London

    Yro · Themedia · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the that-didn't-take-long dept. · 1,060 comments
    CuteSteveJobs writes "The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by London police on behalf of Swedish authorities on allegation of rape. Assange has admitted that he is exhausted by the ongoing battle against authorities. The Swiss Government has confiscated $37K in his Swiss Bank account. PayPal and Mastercard have frozen Wikileak's accounts, hampering Wikileaks from raising any more funds."

  3. Korean Banks Forced to Compensate Hacking Victims

    It · Security · · posted by ScuttleMonkey · from the capitalism-at-lawpoint dept. · 154 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "A brief story over on Finextra reveals that the Korean government is introducing new legislation that will force banks to compensate customers who have been victimized by identity theft even if the banks are not directly responsible. This action obviously will not stem identity theft but the hope is that this will push banks into security improvements that will make identity theft much harder."

  4. Financial Business's Linux Use Doubled in 2004

    Linux · Linuxbusiness · · posted by timothy · from the and-this-is-the-year-of-desktop-linux-too dept. · 20 comments
    A beautiful mind writes "Linux usage got boosted in the financial sector thanks to mainstream suppliers like IBM and Sun from 27 percent last year to 58 percent in 2005, according to a report from financial technology researchers Finextra. In fact the growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past 12 months, say the researchers writing in the Financial Technology Strategies 2005 survey."