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How Saudi Arabia (And Most Governments) Want to Monitor You
CLOUD COMPUTING, SECURITY, SOFTWARE NEWS
A hacker was recently contacted by a Saudi Arabian Telecom to implement some monitoring techniques that are mandated by the Saudi Government, their openness was shocking and detailed.
On 5/15/2013 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more
Google Glass gets Cracked, More Security Issues Arise
HARDWARE NEWS
Known developer "Saurik" has demonstrated how Google's Glass gadget can be used to spy on the user, without him having any idea that the device is actually compromised.
On 5/3/2013 by Denis Jelec... Comments (0) Read more

Tech Around the World: 12/14/2012
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, RUMORS
Friday, relax, download a free game and enjoy yourselves
On 12/14/2012 by Bozo Kauric... Comments (0) Read more
Millions of Stolen Apple UDIDs Were Not Given to FBI by Apple
APPLE, CLOUD COMPUTING, BUSINESS RUMORS
According to a posting by Anonymous, they specifically claim that Apple was not responsible for the UDID leaks to the FBI, however there are some holes in their system that do need addressing.
On 9/7/2012 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more

Infographic: Hacktivism Charges the Virtual Wars
SECURITY NEWS
The past 18 months saw a radical increase in the amount of hacking activities and now we’ve received an infographic that describes the trend.
On 3/27/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Valve Apologizes: Steam Hacked, Around 40 Million Gamers Compromised
SECURITY, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Valve Corporation disclosed that the Steam digital download service has been hacked and that close to 40 million accounts were compromised, including credit card information.
On 11/10/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Android App Review: Hackers Handbook
SECURITY, SOFTWARE REVIEWS
In our first of many Android App reviews, we cover a paid application that gives you all of the tips and tricks of hacking all types of things.
On 11/7/2011 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more
HP Hackathon Seeks Software Developers
SOFTWARE NEWS
While dealing with their own internal troubles, Hewlett Packard is active in humanitarian issues. The HP Hackathon draws upon software developers from the general community to build applications to help autistic children.
On 9/26/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more

InMotion Hosting Servers Hacked, Thousands of Web Sites Affected
CLOUD COMPUTING, SECURITY, SOFTWARE NEWS
For nearly all of Sunday, InMotion Hosting's website customers were showing a hacked web page.
On 9/25/2011 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more
Insecurity: Why People Make Security Explotation Too Easy
SECURITY, SOFTWARE ANALYSIS
NY Times writer, John Markoff, had just finished his book on the exploits/capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick about the same time we received a call from the boss at CERFnet telling us we had to change our password. 
On 8/8/2011 by Andy Marken... Comments (0) Read more

Global Security Attacks Intensify: US Senate, IMF, Banks and Game Companies
SECURITY ANALYSIS
In the past few weeks, reports have roamed the web about hacks of Sony by the comically named organization LulzSec. But also other companies have been broken into, namely Nintendo, Codemasters and Epic Games.
On 6/13/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more
Epsilon SNAFU: Best Buy, Chase Fall Victim to E-Mail Data Theft
ENTERPRISE, SECURITY NEWS
Epsilon is a company you don't hear a lot about… unless they make a critical security issue that compromises your own data. Latest companies that lost your data are Best Buy and Chase.
On 4/4/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

California Hacker Found Guilty, Could Serve Six Years in Jail
SOFTWARE NEWS
A California man has admitted to using personal information he hacked from women's e-mail accounts in Facebook to then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book.
On 1/17/2011 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more
The Sky Isn't the Limit - Meet SkyProdigy, a Telescope for Dummies
NEWS
CES 2011 — Celestron's robotic telescope called SkyProdigy has an ARM Coretx chip and automatically aligns itself by matching sky objects to an internal database of over 4,000 images of celestial bodies.
On 1/6/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more

ElcomSoft Finally Does it: GPGPU Cracks a BlackBerry!
APPLE, GRAPHICS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE NEWS
ElcomSoft is introducing ElcomSoft Phone Password Breaker [EPPB], application which "grants forensic access to password-protected backups of all Apple mobile devices," adding support for BlackBerry.
On 10/1/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Hotmail Breach shows off the dangers of the Cloud...
CLOUD COMPUTING, SECURITY ANALYSIS
With the latest breach of a web based mail system, we have to wonder if cloud computing is really going to be safe or is it all just a pipe-dream.
On 10/6/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more

Microsoft, Oracle - this is NOT how to sell a secure service
CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE, SECURITY ANALYSIS
When large companies like Microsoft, Oracle, and others try to sell you products they talk about security and often give a few common references. But are those really any good?
On 7/30/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more
Update - Are we our own worst enemy in the war against Cyber Crime?
SECURITY, SOFTWARE ANALYSIS
The recent major attacks on the US and South Korean government and consumer sites by a large botnet bring end user security in to clear view and concnern. Are we, the end users, to blame in the end?
On 7/10/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more

T-mobile data hacked, claims nothing lost
SECURITY, BUSINESS NEWS

This past weekend hackers posted a message on the Full Disclosure vulnerability message board and claimed they had stolen confidential documents, programs, and financial data from T-Mobile’s servers.

On 6/10/2009 by Thomas Gordon... Comments (0) Read more
SNAFU: MySpace bans 50K IP addresses - including Sony!
SECURITY, BUSINESS NEWS

Gawker ran a story claiming that Sony Picture Entertainment was banned from MySpace. We diged and found out what really happened with those 50,000 banned IP addresses.

On 5/16/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

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