Global tech job losses exceed 160 000
More than 160 000 jobs in the global technology sector have been cut in the past six months, reports Computing.co.uk.
The latest redundancies have come from Toshiba, losing 3 900 temporary jobs by March 2010 after forecasting an annual loss of £2.4 billion, and Sony Ericsson, which is shedding 2 000 people after reporting a loss of 358 million euro in the first quarter of the year.
The cuts bring the total figure, based on those reported by Computing since the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank - widely viewed as the turning point for the global recession - to more than 162 000. The true number is likely to be significantly higher through jobs lost, but not announced to the press.
Twitter worm author gets security job
The self-confessed author of the recent Twitter worm has scored a potentially lucrative job doing security analysis and Web development work, says The Register.
Michael "Mikeyy" Mooney, a 17-year-old student from Brooklyn, New York, created a worm that exploited cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in a ham-fisted attempt to promote a site he ran, called StalkDaily. The worm created thousands of automated tweets and spawned a number of copy-cat attacks.
Two software development firms have offered Mooney jobs since his worm created chaos on the social networking site. He has reportedly already accepted one of these jobs.
Court jails Pirate Bay founders
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay, the world's most high-profile file-sharing Web site, in a landmark case, reports the BBC.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages.
First Mac botnet detected
Mac users have been warned not to download Apple's iWork 09 from any bit torrent client. The torrent has been infected with the first Mac OS X botnet, says Slippery Brick.
It was detected by Symantec and a copy of the bot was also reported in the Photoshop CS4 torrent.
The author of the malware introduced the bot in the downloaded copy of the software.
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