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Wednesday, 13 June 2012 10:13
AMD Signs Licensing Agreement with ARM For the Cortex-A5 with TrustZone
Written by Sean Kalinich
AMD has finally signed the predicted license deal with ARM to incorporate some of ARM’s technology into AMD’s APUs. This was a move that we saw coming back in Q3 of 2011. Around the time when Rory Reed took over…
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:05
SpexSec Popped Onto the Scene and... Just Like That, They Are Gone
Written by Sean Kalinich
Things can change just like that in the work of the online hacktivist. As the group SpexSec popped onto the scene and then… just like that they vanished saying they were leaving the hacking world to become a “whitehat”. Now…
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012 10:47
New Group SpexSec Dumps 600MB of Passport and Visa Information Pokes Fun At the FBI...
Written by Sean Kalinich
There has been another hack of government systems from the sound of things on Your Anon News one of the Anonymous Twitter feeds. According to the post and the pastebin link the dump is a listing of “Passports, Visa’s, etc.”…
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012 07:59
Password Flaw Leaves Some Versions of MySQL and MariaDB Open to Brute Force Attacks
Written by Sean Kalinich
A rather major, but basic flaw in the way that MySQL and MariaDB handle passwords has opened up both of these to brute force attacks and can allow the attacker to gain access in seconds. This flaw which exploits an…
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With all the Apple news yesterday (and filtering over to today) we thought you might like some news about “the other guy” in the mobile race. We are talking about Android her and no, they did not hold a massive…
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Monday, 11 June 2012 16:53
Kingston Announces Encryption Issue with The LSI/SandForce SF-2000 and any SSDs That use this Controller
Written by Sean Kalinich
With all of the security related news flying around we have received word from Kingston about an issue that affects the encryption feature in their SSDNow V+200 and KC100 lines. The issue is with the level of encryption that the…
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Monday, 11 June 2012 12:23
***Updated ***News Aggregation Site Digg Seems To Have Lost All Of Its Links... Is This a Database Glitch Or Worse?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Popular news aggregation site Digg appeared to be having some issues today as it stopped being able to service users. The issue started at around 12:00 Eastern time in the US and at the time of this writing the site…
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Monday, 11 June 2012 11:45
Flame and Stuxnet Devs Appear to Have Shared Source Code At Least Once
Written by Sean Kalinich
It would appear that the developers of Stuxnet/Duqu and Flame shared at least some source code during development. At least that is what security research firm Kaspersky seems to think. Kaspersky was the company that found the massive bit of…
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Monday, 11 June 2012 08:48
New Kickstarter Project from Neal Stephenson Pushes For More Realistic Sword Based Games
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend we heard about an interesting project on Kickstarter that has caught our attention and imagination (while they are hoping to catch some of your money). The project is the brain child of science fiction writer Neal Stephenson…
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Friday, 08 June 2012 13:02
US CERT Calls AMD Out For A Security Issue In Their GPU Drivers
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ok, you know things are going bad for a product push when you hear that even the US Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) has decided to weigh in on security issues surrounding the use of your product. In an unusual…
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Thursday, 07 June 2012 09:20
Facebook Rolls Out New 2-Step Mobile Payments System, Could This Be Part of the Phone Development?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Do you remember the Facebook phone rumors that ran around the internet? There were articles both for and against a phone that centered on the social networking (and often privacy intruding) giant. I personally do not think it would be…
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Wednesday, 06 June 2012 16:57
LinkedIn Confirms that Some Passwords Have Been Compromised; Apologizes And Increases Security With Hashing and Salting
Written by Sean Kalinich
LinkedIn has confirmed that some of the roughly 6.45 Million (yes Million) user passwords that were stolen by a Russian hacker and posted in a forum (where he asked for help in decrypting them) do correspond to LinkedIn accounts. The…
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Wednesday, 06 June 2012 11:16
Hackers Claim to Have Stolen As Many as Six Million LinkedIn Account Passwords
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the web waters… It seems that some enterprising hacking group (as of right now not associated with Anonymous) has decided to break into LinkedIn and grab some passwords. According…
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Wednesday, 06 June 2012 09:10
AMD Shows Off A Prototype Tablet Running Windows 8 at Computex
Written by Sean Kalinich
At Computex in Taipei AMD is showing off a prototype Windows 8 tablet. This is something that we predicted they would do right after they announced their shift to low power CPUs (well really APUs). It was a move that…
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Tuesday, 05 June 2012 21:44
Microsoft to Use Android To Develop and Beta Test new on{x} platform for Windows Phone 8
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft is looking to get Android users to do some beta testing for them. You might be wondering what we are talking about at this point so I suppose I should explain a little. Microsoft has launched an automation application…
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Tuesday, 05 June 2012 14:18
JK Rowling and Sony launch new Harry Potter Book; Wonderbook: Book of Spells
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Sony has developed an interactive book for the PS3 that is sure to delight Harry Potter fans. That is right; Sony is releasing a book that you can interact with on your PS3, if you have a few things first…
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