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Monday, 04 June 2012 15:05
Flame Was Using Subverted Microsoft Certificates To Infect Systems; Microsoft Issues a Patch to Correct This.
Written by Sean Kalinich
We told you about the new malware threat in Iran (and some other Middle Eastern countries). This is a new and very sophisticated bit of spyware that appears designed to gather intelligence about the state of Iran’s nuclear program. Kaspersky…
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Friday, 01 June 2012 22:23
Stuxnet Was A US Operation... Now the push for SOPA, PIPA and CISPA by Congress Makes a Little More Sense...
Written by Sean Kalinich
In every occasion if you dig deep enough you will find the reasons for someone’s actions, even if they seem completely random. For a while now we have watched as congress has pushed one stupid internet control law after another.…
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Friday, 01 June 2012 20:08
The Copyright, The Takedowns, the Patent Trolls... Oh My, The Google News For 6-1-2012
Written by Sean Kalinich
Time for the Google news (much like many of our combined reports of Apple’s doings). This time we have a couple of things to talk about. The first is the penultimate decision in the Google Vs Oracle case, followed by…
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Friday, 01 June 2012 11:13
Microsemi Responds To Claims Of a Backdoor In Their FPGA Products
Written by Sean Kalinich
So two days ago, we reported on a potential issue with some FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) ASICs from Microsemi/Actel; namely the ProASIC3. The issue was discovered by a group of researchers that were looking into a potential security risk…
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Thursday, 31 May 2012 14:29
Microsoft Blog Post Accidentally Puts Up Links to Next Windows 8 Preview Update - The Links are Live!
Written by Sean Kalinich
Someone accidentally let information slip about the next release of Microsoft’s cloud pushing operating system, Windows 8. According to many sources popping up today we should have already seen the links go live to the new preview. The problem is…
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Thursday, 31 May 2012 09:22
ACTA Fails to Pass In Three Important EU Committees, Still Has Two More To Go
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have been following the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) since it first leaked into the public eye. The agreement (as we have said) appears to be only about counterfeit physical goods, but anyone who really takes a look at the…
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Thursday, 31 May 2012 07:32
MegaUpload Asks US Court to Throw Out Copyright Case
Written by Sean Kalinich
Well, we knew this would happen when we first heard about the case, but it seems that the lawyers defending MegaUpload have finally dropped the jurisdiction bomb on the US DoJ. The issue at hand is the same one that…
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:35
Doom 3 BFG Edition Trailer Hits the Internet... Get Your Chainsaw Ready
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ah the sweet sounds of DOOM. The classic first person shooter that, when combined with Castle Wolfenstein, kicked off a completely new genre of gaming, the First Person Shooter. In Doom you take on the role of a Space Marine…
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:23
New "Backdoor" Security Issue Found With FPGA Chips
Written by Sean Kalinich
So what is more frightening than having a worm or a virus infect your network? How about a virus or worm that can infect the hardware that controls your network. According researchers at Cambridge this could be possible through the…
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:31
The US DoJ Has Three Weeks to Give Up the Evidence in the MegaUpload Case...
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is nothing like a little drama, just as there is nothing quite like seeing the big copyright holders having to actually prove their case. In no other recent case has this been more important than the in the criminal…
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Monday, 28 May 2012 13:06
Massive "Flame" Cyber Attack Targeted At Some Middle Eastern Countries
Written by Sean Kalinich
An interesting report has popped up about a rather large attack on a group of Middle Eastern countries. The attack (called Flame) appears to be a targeted attack against Iran, Israel, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt with…
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Saturday, 26 May 2012 13:40
The Internet Defense League is Moving Into Full Swing Against CISPA
Written by Sean Kalinich
In a world (insert dramatical music here) where the forces of greed, evil and bad comb-overs are plotting to control the very lines of communication used for free speech there stands one group of rag tag heroes ready to fight…
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We are giving away one of our subscirbers... um wait no. I mean we are giving something away to one of our YouTube subscribers. This is a Thermaltake Tt eSports Meka G1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. This is the same keybaord…
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Friday, 25 May 2012 11:09
Mayor of West New York and Son Arrested for Hacking Recall Site
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember how we told you about Jim Conte and his plan to make anonymous posting a thing of the past (and in some cases illegal)? When we covered that we talked about the technological and financial barriers to doing this…
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Friday, 25 May 2012 08:46
Kingdoms of Amalur Developer, 38 Studios, Lays off Entire Staff
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the computer and consumer electronics market things can change pretty quickly and often it is not about how good your product is it is about how much the market accepts it. We have pointed this out about Microsoft before…
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Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:01
nVidia Moves to Intregrate LTE into Tegra by 2013
Written by Sean Kalinich
nVidia has taken one step closer to being a major player in the smart phone market. This step is the culmination of their purchase of Icera specifically for their LTE technology. Back when nVidia first announced the purchase it was…
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