Simple Thoughts (Technology) – Newsletter for December 19, 2010

WikiLeaks attackers ‘a united group of passionate actors’

WASHINGTON – Cyber crime experts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have suggested that the mob mentality behind the current wave of cyber attacks against sites of various banking, credit and other service-industries are not the result of frenzy or mass hysteria – rather they are a united group of passionate actors.

“Leaders of … Original source on Gaea Times at : WikiLeaks attackers ‘a united group of passionate actors’.

Kashmir University to set up advanced IT centre

SRINAGAR – The University of Kashmir has decided to establish an advanced IT centre to promote information technology in Jammu and Kashmir.

The university is all set to establish an advanced centre for IT in the campus, a fundamental step for ensuring development of the software industry and bringing a boom in employment for students.

Students …. Original article  : Kashmir University to set up advanced IT centre.

Anti-Berlusconi tweets swamp Twitter feed at EU summit

LONDON – Critics of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hijacked giant screens at the venue of an EU summit in Brussels to tweet against him.

In one tweet Berlusconi, 74, was called a “Mafioso”, who “makes laws for be not judged”, and another said that he had paid for “for sex, for votes”.

The “tweet wall” was …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Anti-Berlusconi tweets swamp Twitter feed at EU summit.