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Are Security Researchers Sitting on Vulnerabilities to Get the Most Money?
Posted on Thursday, 24 July 2014
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A couple of days ago we posted a story about a group of developers that complained to Valve about their lack of a Bug Bounty. In their complaint was an inference that having a form of reward would make people…
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TOR Vulnerability Talk at Black HAT 2014 Canceld
Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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The TOR Project has been the go-to group when it comes to anonymity. This group and their TOR browser bundle are used by millions of people daily and not just to surf for illegal items or porn. In many cases…
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AMD looking to Stacked DRAM for Future APUs
Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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One of the items we have always beat AMD up on is there poor memory performance in their CPUs and APUs. This little issue is what has separated AMD from Intel since the AM2 days. It has always been understood…
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Battlefield Hardline Delayed until Ealry 2015 to Improve The Game from Top to Bottom
Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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Remember all of the jokes about EA putting out games before they were ready? I do and many of them were very funny. Apparently someone at EA might have read them too and while we can picture them having an…
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New tracking method found that creates a fingerprint for your system
Posted on Tuesday, 22 July 2014
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In 2012 ago we heard about a new type of internet tracking that involved making every computer identify itself and then following that ID around. At the time we thought the idea was very interesting. What we did not know…
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Security Expert claims iOS "Undocumented Services" allow for data collection
Posted on Tuesday, 22 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
There is a lot of information flying around the internet about security this month. Much of this is due to the looming Black Hat and DEF CON conferences that kick off in August. While many of the articles hitting the…
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NVIDIA launches the Shield 8-Inch Tablet
Posted on Tuesday, 22 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
In what should not have been a surprise to anyone, NVIDIA launched their own tablet today. This new tablet is part of their mobile gaming initiative and is a smart move considering some of the setbacks NVIDIA has had when…
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Italy blocks Mega after getting off of the Special 301 Report Watch List
Posted on Monday, 21 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
You knew it was going to happen, but I am honestly surprised that it has happened this soon after the special 301 report recommendations came out. Italy has decided to issue a nation-wide block of sites that are suspected of…
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Developers complain about Valve security and get a reply
Posted on Monday, 21 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Network and application security are big deals and big business these days. It seems that a day does not pass that you hear about a new breach, exploit, hack or something. This sad state has prompted a few companies to…
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Crytek Engineer, Tiago Sousa, leaves for id Software and Doom 4
Posted on Monday, 21 July 2014
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The next version of Doom will be picking up some new talent to work on it in the form of Crytek Lead R&D Graphics Engineer, Tiago Sousa. In a tweet made over the weekend Sousa says that he will be…
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Security Flaws in Residential Routers to be shown off at SOHOplessly Broken Competition
Posted on Friday, 18 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
The P0wn2Own competition is getting s sibling. Now we are not talking about the competition sponsored by Google or even Microsoft. We are talking about a knockdown drag out competition to hammer the (lack of) security in residential and SOHO…
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Microsoft Closes Xbox Entertainment Studios as Part of 14% Staff Cut
Posted on Friday, 18 July 2014
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Microsoft has announced that they will be closing the doors on their Xbox Entertainment Studio. This move is part of the recent job cuts that new CEO Satya Nadella announced. Nadella is slimming things down as part of a mobile…
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Destiny Beta to run at less than 1080p on the Xbox One
Posted on Thursday, 17 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It seems that Microsoft is not getting the love from former Halo developer Bungie. Bungie is working on a new game that is aimed at next generation consoles, but instead of partnering up with their old buddies Microsoft they decided…
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New Study Shows Movie Piracy Has No Statistically Significant Impact on Revenue
Posted on Thursday, 17 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
We have talked about how the MPAA, RIAA and others use fantasy math to come up with the figures about how much Piracy hurts them. Usually they use these fantasy number when asking lawmakers for harsher punishments and also to…
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Dropping the Kinect from the Xbox One has Doubled Sales
Posted on Thursday, 17 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
This morning some news flitted across my desk that made me thing of an old TV commercial. In this ad an older man in a suit ask the question: “How do we measure success?” His response is: “One client at…
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Dungeons and Dragons Enters the Digital Age with Downloadable Rules for Version 5.0
Posted on Wednesday, 16 July 2014
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Sean Kalinich
As a kid I can remember one of my brothers bringing home a new game. This game was not like anything I had seen at the time, it consisted of three books (there was a fourth, but that came later)…
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