FBI probes iPad breach

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started an investigation of a security breach in AT&T's wireless network that exposed the e-mail addresses of users of Apple's iPad 3G, says Business Week.

“The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation to address the potential cyber threat,” FBI spokesperson Lindsay Godwin said yesterday in an e-mail.

A group called Goatse Security said it obtained the e-mail addresses through a program on AT&T's Web site, according to Gawker Media's Valleywag Web site, to which the group released addresses of iPad users, including New York Times CEO Janet Robinson and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Alongside the billions of pounds worth of aid being pumped into rebuilding Haiti, a new project aims to give Haitians control over their own cash, reports the BBC.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created a $10 million fund for mobile banking services in the country.

Mobile banking is exploding in the developing world, encouraging saving and helping people out of poverty.

A botnet targeting Mexican surfers has been dismantled just weeks after it first appeared, apparently by the cyber-crook who established it rather than by any action by the federales or ISPs, reveals The Register.

Trend Micro reckons cyber-crooks pressed the auto-destruct on the Tequila botnet. This is perhaps because an earlier post by the security firm blew its cover and exposed the proxy servers and redirected hosts used by bot-herders in controlling the network of virus-infected, compromised PCs that made up its ranks.

New instructions sent to the bots late last week effectively switched off the flow of phishing attack e-mails the zombie network was spreading.

China has defended its right to censor the Internet in a document laying out the government's attitude towards the Web, writes the BBC.

It says the country has the right to govern the Internet according to its own rules inside its borders.

The white paper also reveals just how fast the Internet has developed in China in the 16 years since it was first connected.