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New Browser Based Flaw Leaks VPN Users' IP Addresses
Posted on Monday, 02 February 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Privacy on the internet is a hard thing to achieve. For starters there are tons of companies that are very interested in what you do and where you go online so they can get you to buy things. On top…
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New Windows 10 Technical Preview Hides a Keylogger This Time
Posted on Thursday, 29 January 2015
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As the world gets all excited about some of the new “features” in Windows 10 there are some in the press (and consumers) that are less than thrilled about them. We are talking about Cortana and some of the predictive…
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Silent Circle Text App Gets a Fix for a Serious Memory Corruption Flaw
Posted on Wednesday, 28 January 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Privacy and security in consumer electronics is (and has been) a big deal for a number of years although most consumers are not aware just how vulnerable they are. In most cases the lack of security is due to a…
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We drop in on ADATA during CES 2015
Posted on Sunday, 18 January 2015
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Sean Kalinich
CES 2015, Las Vegas NV - ADATA has had some very interesting products to show us at CES in the past and this year was no exception. Although much of what we saw was not new, it was still pretty…
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CyberpowerPC Shows off their new hardware at CES 2015
Posted on Tuesday, 06 January 2015
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Sean Kalinich
We stopped by the CyberpowerPC suite at the Palazzo yesterday and were shown some interesting products. When we walked into the suite the first thing that caught our eyes was a very unusual looking PC. This was set up like…
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Sony hack was probably not from Korea… Go figure
Posted on Tuesday, 30 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
So the big Sony Hack that everyone was talking about and that the US government blamed on Korea might not have been state sponsored after all. Despite the FBI’s initial (and way too fast) conclusion that the source of the…
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Hollywood says Google Fiber will turn people into pirates
Posted on Tuesday, 30 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
There is no shortage of jokes about ignorance in big business and government, but there are times when some of the things that are really said just sound stupid. Recently members of the Hollywood Cartel decided that Google fiber will…
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New Documents Show the NSA's efforst to break encryption and TOR
Posted on Monday, 29 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Edward Snowden is the gift that keeps on giving. After walking out on the NSA with a ton of secret documents detailing the extent that the agency and their partners were digging into ordinary people’s lives he started to release…
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Simple photos of your fingers can be used to hack finger print scanners
Posted on Monday, 29 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
The concept of the fingerprint ID has been around for a long time and, for the most part, has been seen as a rather secure method of locking your things away. At least that is the way it is seen…
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Dead Kings DLC Removes your right to Sue Ubisoft over AC Unity Issues
Posted on Monday, 22 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Remember how Ubisoft offered that free game to everyone that had issues with AC Unity? Well despite many people thinking that this was to make things right it was really all about making sure that Ubisoft did not end up…
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Leaked Sony Emails are Both Funny and Sad...
Posted on Wednesday, 17 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
If we have said it once, we have said it a thousand times, there is no such thing as a secure network or system. This is especially true when the network is, by design, intended to deal with external user…
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Assassin’s Creed Unity Patch 4 is broken all on its own.
Posted on Wednesday, 17 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it could not get any worse for Ubisoft it turns out that the patch they designed to fix all of the broken stuff is also sort of broken. According to a post on the Assassin’s Creed…
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Microsoft Promises to Renew PC Gaming Focus With Windows 10
Posted on Friday, 12 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
With the launch of Windows 8 the gaming world was a tad shaken up. It seems that Microsoft was abandoning the PC gamer in favor of their own console. Everything about Windows 8 seemed designed to push the Xbox as…
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Judge Posner says the NSA should have unfettered access to your data
Posted on Monday, 08 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It would seem that some in the judicial branch of the US government feel that privacy is not really about protecting citizens from unjustified surveillance. They also do not seem to have any fear of the US becoming a place…
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2k Games Confirms Bioshock Infinite Coming to Linux
Posted on Monday, 08 December 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Ever since the announcement of Windows 8 there has been a renewed push for gaming on Linux. We saw one game developer even go so far as to make their own semi-customized flavor of Linux in the form of the…
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Ubisoft to delay review copies of The Crew until launch day... here we go again
Posted on Wednesday, 26 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Ubisoft is at it again with an announcement that they will delay review copies of the game The Crew until launch day. Their justification for this is that there is no way to properly test the game with such a…
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