This morning, Verizon and Coinstar announced a long-rumored joint venture, combing a new video download and streaming service from Verizon with Coinstar’s popular Redbox kiosk rentals of DVDs, Blurays and video games. The service will launch in the second half of 2012.
Despite all the tales of Chinese hackers breaking into U.S. computer systems, the top security threat of 2011 turned out to be hacktivists with technical chops, proving political points by infiltrating companies, according to an exclusive preview of Verizon’s annual threat report.