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Monday, 28 December 2015 11:56
Is seven seconds worth having your data stolen, some retailers think it is
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a report that over the holidays several retailers disabled the EMV (Chip and Pin) functionality of their card readers. The reason for this? They did not want to deal with the extra time it takes for a transaction.…
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Monday, 28 December 2015 10:55
Screener Season Kicks off with a Bang thanks to the Hive-CM8
Written by Sean Kalinich
As 2015 comes to a close the advanced copies of movies are in transit to different groups and agencies. Many of these are for awards or accolades of some sort and almost without exception, copies of these (called screeners) end…
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Monday, 28 December 2015 10:07
Things just got interesting in the NVIDIA V Samsung Patent Battle
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember that little patent squabble that NVIDIA and Samsung got into last year? Well some things have happened and they are not all that good for NVIDIA. If you have already forgotten about this incident (we do not blame you)…
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Wednesday, 23 December 2015 09:34
Dotcom loses the first round of the extradition battle
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After a long and complicated battle Kim Dotcom and the other Megaupload employees (Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato, and Bram van der Kolk) might have lost an important battle. A district judge, Judge Nevin Dawson, has ruled that the US can…
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015 11:28
Hello Kitty User Database found open on the Internet
Written by Sean Kalinich
The push into the cloud has been a concerning one as has to the glut of devices, games, services and other that rely on the cloud to exist. One of our main areas of concern is with the storage of…
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Monday, 21 December 2015 10:21
Juniper Admits to backdoors in their ScreenOS code as far back as 2012
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Juniper has acknowledged that “unauthorized code” was somehow inserted into their ScreenOS. The code appears to have been around since at least 2012 which means that it went unnoticed during multiple code updates, patches and even full version updates. Although…
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015 14:46
In IoT security is less of a concern than locking out your competitors…
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that Phillips does not want you to use their hue application with just anyone. If you are not aware, hue is a system that allows you to control special light bulbs. You can turn them on and off,…
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015 11:59
MacKeeper did not keep security in mind when building their own systems
Written by Sean Kalinich
You know that awkward moment when your security company actually fails and ends up exposing your data? Well that is happening for a, less than loved, Mac application called MacKeeper. It seems that they forgot all about data management and…
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:53
Open Access to the GPU. Is this an open invitation to Malware?
Written by Sean Kalinich
The average GPU is a pretty powerful computational device. The highly parallel design and efficient memory structure means that you can execute operations at a rate that puts most CPUs to shame. With the advent of Cuda and OpenCL the…
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:21
Apple has bought a new factory in Taiwan, possibly to make new screens
Written by Sean Kalinich
Not that long ago there were rumors popping up that Apple was buying a failed division of Qualcomm. This was Qualcomm’s Interferometric Modulator Display (also known as IMOD or Marisol). The concept was brilliant even if the execution was not.…
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Monday, 14 December 2015 10:17
Can Anonymity on the Internet Really Happen? MIT Says Yes.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Privacy is something that many people think they want and have on the internet. Of course, most of us actually know that Privacy is not something that really exists in the broader internet. Unless you control all points in the…
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Thursday, 10 December 2015 09:18
Radeon Technologies Group trying to recapture the glory of ATi
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In September of 2015 (that would be this year) AMD announced that they were splitting off their GPU business into the Radeon Technologies Group (RTG). This move had a number of reasons (most good) and would serve to distance the…
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Wednesday, 09 December 2015 11:45
My Quantum Computer can beat up your PC says Google and NASA
Written by Sean Kalinich
The idea of Quantum computing has been with us since the dawn of science fiction and it is a very cool one. In recent years we have seen advances that have made this once theoretical concept turn into a reality.…
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Tuesday, 08 December 2015 14:16
Microsoft to push even harder to get users to upgrade to Windows 10...
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it could not get more annoying, Microsoft has turned up the Windows 10 update notifications. The little nudges for Windows 8.x users pop up in the corner (systray) and also when you boot up your PC…
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Monday, 07 December 2015 14:50
Asetek targets Giagbyte and AMD in patent dispute with Cooler Master
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Asetek is hard at work throwing its legal muscle around and they have rolled AMD and Gigabyte into their efforts. After winning a patent suit against Cooler Master over technology found in the pumps on some of their All in…
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Monday, 07 December 2015 10:22
Bendgate: it’s not just for iPhones anymore.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Not all that long ago someone found out that Apple’s iPhone was not all that strong and could be damaged with little pressure. This issue became known as Bendgate… the use of the word gate still following us from the…
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