Boot up: Youth cybercrime linked to peer pressure, SQL injections uncovered, and more

Youth cybercrime ... all about friends' influence?

A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

Showing you how SQL injection is spotted and what tools are used to get it done. The lack of response from the fashion site is concerning, though: this is someone who tried to do all the right things (no customer data leak, advising the site privately).

"Mr Jobs has been described in the past as Apple's best marketing tool. Today's announcement shows that he hasn't lost his ability to steal the headlines.
"Here are some of the stories which would have been interesting news today, if Stevey J hadn't sent that letter to the Apple board."

Your catchup-on-the-catchup service.

Linked by Oxblood Ruffin (see link lower): "Peer influence and low self-control appear to be the major factors fueling juvenile cybercrime such as computer hacking and online bullying, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University criminologist.
"Thomas Holt, assistant professor of criminal justice, said the findings reinforce the need for parents to be more aware of their children's friends and Internet activities."

Quad-core! Great. We think there may be more unreleased Windows slates than ones actually on the market.

"After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it's finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. I created this place with my best friends in a run down house while still in college. Since then it has grown to be read by more than a million people, and has served Billions and Billions of Pages (yes, in my head I hear the voice). During my tenure I have done my best to keep Slashdot firmly grounded in its origins, but now it's time for someone else to come aboard and find the 'future'."

Crap. Steve Jobs, OK, but CmrdTaco? (Still, outlasted Digg in usefulness, huh, Rob?)

Note source. But - sharp as a knife.

"Data theft is arguably the game changer.
"DDoSing or web defacements are one thing. Breaking into government and commercial networks is another. Already the clouds are forming. The Danish police wish to ban all anonymous use of the internet. The Indian Government wants real-time monitoring of Twitter, Facebook, and Skype. The OECD is seeking tighter regulatory control of the internet. And the United Kingdom is seeking stricter laws to deal with cybercrime.
"While it would be unfair to say that Anonymous is completely responsible for these reactions, it's certainly part of the problem. And when the whip comes down - and come down it will - Anonymous will have to accept part of the blame when online privacy rights are scaled back even further.
"Hacktivism, real hacktivism, has always managed to get things done without upsetting the apple cart. And even though Anonymous is more decentralised than traditional hacktivist models there's no reason why it can't muster more discipline."

In 1972, Jobs offered the first Apple prototype PC to HP. In a rainy August 39 years later...

Beatiful, timeless interactive of Steve Jobs' technical legacy at one of the world's most valuable companies by market cap.

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Boot-up: Cybercrime ' easier than ever before ", why dump Microsoft Bing and more will not"

Mac OS X lion... Launchpad makes your Mac to in fact a huge iPhone

Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 6 links for you

Brian Krebs, reliable as ever and per: "An explosion of online was tools and services online makes it easier than ever for beginners in computer crime entry." "At the same time suggests a growing number of prove, that much of the world of cybercrime activity may be the work of a core group of villains who have been there for many years."

Clever use of the nature of the FireWire. But: "Mac users who want to rule out the threat of forensic software can change the default from their accounts so that they no longer automatically log at startup." Mac antivirus vendor Intego has this here step by step instructions for action. Requiring a password to unlock or waking up a Mac prevents that X OS save the login password in your computer's memory. "Macs is the other way to help prevent them clear, if they instead of locks they or contact they are not used in sleep mode,."

You are warned.

Mary Jo Foley: "I wouldn't be surprised, to see more closely coupled with Windows 8 be Bing." Given, it will need to be a Windows-8-app store, users search the new marketplace for apps.
"While the world sees as a distant No. 2 search engine Bing, see Microsoft brass and bean counters bing as a reusable component and capital, which is more and more to create products." "Microsoft Bing will reject those who think, or to sell to the highest bidder dead false-, that now happen is not or anytime soon."

Baking Bing in Windows 8 sounds like a recipe for a competitive process. If Google has no sense, at least, a lawyer, the preparation has on it a case why consumers - which damage based on the Sherman antitrust cases.

A single page from John Siracusa enormous review of the Mac OSX 10.7 ("lion"), located on the dangers in the heart of Apple's OS file format references.

"Without my involvement with Windows and as was the prospect of me purchasing a Mac go a ridiculous concept in a huge history lesson until not that long ago long history I am short, a happy Windows user who decided it was time to acquire the latest MacBook Air." And I wonder how all out about it, despite my initial reservations on almost 2 large they Dole out (maxed out 13?) Model + taxes).
"Now, before I postulate my questions, I would like to questions that you please try to alleviate you."

Ping! This is the popcorn ready.

More seriously, he does not employ, why he moved, and is the more interesting question.

"RIM on Friday said it had bought JayCut in what is a likely attempt counter iMovie on the iPad." The agreement allows access to a mix of video edit it and cloud services. The BlackBerry maker made it clear to strengthen the acquisition was video editing textbook, as well as future BlackBerry phones.
"Conditions of the transaction were not assigned but were probably small enough that RIM do not have to report their conditions."

Amateur Director hour has begun.