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Thursday, 18 September 2014 06:49
BitTorrent Releases Public Alpha of Bleep for Windows, Mac and Android
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember when we told you that BitTorrent was coming out with their very own chat app called Bleep? No well they are and from the information we have so far it is looking like a pretty cool application. The concept…
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Monday, 15 September 2014 11:21
Kim Dotcom Claims Warner Bros Colluded with NZ Government to get him Extradited
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ever since the take down of Napster the copyright industry has taken a much more aggressive stance on piracy. This stance had taken the form of new laws, increased lobbying and a push to make ISPs responsible for policing everyone’s…
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Monday, 15 September 2014 06:33
The NSA and GCHQ want a "Treasure Map" of the Internet
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have more news from the Snowden front as Der Spiegel reports one a joint NSA, GCHQ program dubbed treasure map. Although the program was originally revealed by the NY Times in late 2013 it was originally described as a…
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Thursday, 11 September 2014 10:04
Microsoft stands their ground over Dublin emails, finds themselves in contempt of court
Written by Sean Kalinich
It is not often that we can write about a big company like Microsoft and say they are doing “the right thing”. This is even more true in light of the Snowden revelations that showed the close cooperation that Microsoft…
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Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:49
Security concerns are about more than just weak passwords and malware.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Since the beginning of 2014 the IT world has been rocked by more than a few major breaches. The number of credit cards and user information now up for sale is staggering. So how have these attacks managed to get…
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Tuesday, 09 September 2014 06:47
The BBC says if you use VPN you are probably a pirate
Written by Sean Kalinich
The concept of the VPN (Virtual Private Network) is one that is intended to allow people to make a secure, encrypted connection from point A to point B. in most cases this connection is from a remote location back to…
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Monday, 08 September 2014 16:35
New Zealand Appeals Court Orders Data to be Returned to Dotcom
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember all of the data that was collected from the Dotcom raid? You know the stuff, the raid that was ruled legal even if the warrants that were used to justify it were not. Well it seems that there is…
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It would seem that the new Bungie game, Destiny, is one of the most highly anticipated game that has come along in some time. Already it is being hailed as the most pre-ordered new game in the history of video…
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Monday, 08 September 2014 06:58
NVIDIA goes Lawyers Out on Samsung and Qualcomm, Is this really all about Terga?
Written by Sean Kalinich
On Friday the big news was that NVIDIA had launched two separate suits against Samsung and Qualcomm for patent infringement (International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US District Court in Delaware). In the suits NVIDIA claims that the two companies…
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Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:09
Microsoft giving away a free game with a new Xbox One Next Week
Written by Sean Kalinich
Oh Microsoft, how little you get the game of marketing. Despite being forewarned about the consequences of pushing the Xbox One as media center instead of a gaming console Microsoft continued this blitz right up until launch day. They were…
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Thursday, 04 September 2014 08:39
Apple's iCloud Easy to Crack with Existing Tools
Written by Sean Kalinich
Two days ago we reported on the iCloud controversy which involved an attack on Apple’s Cloud based Find My iPhone application. This attack (which appears to have been a dictionary attack) resulted in the release of nude images of a…
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Wednesday, 03 September 2014 06:55
New Tribler BitTorrent Client adds a Tor Network for Anonymity
Written by Sean Kalinich
The words anonymity, privacy and security go hand in hand… in hand. Although the term anonymity is often seen as a bad thing by law enforcement and policy makers the truth is that it is a critical part of the…
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This morning Imagination announced their MIPS I-class 64-bit CPU family. These are the first IP cores to combine a 64-bit architecture and hardware virtualization with scalable performance through multi-threading, multi-core and multi-cluster coherent processing.
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Tuesday, 02 September 2014 06:50
Was a Flaw in Apple's Find my iPhone Responsible for the Recent Celebrity Nude Photo Leak?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend a number of articles broke describing a “hack” that allowed nude photos of celebrities to be stolen and then reposted on the internet (4chan). Although the story held minimal interest at the time of its release we…
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Friday, 29 August 2014 06:51
Are PCI Compliance Regulations Being Ignored and Allowing for More Data Theft?
Written by Sean Kalinich
It won’t happen to me is the battle cry of far too many companies these days when it comes to security. We have watches this mind set over the course of the last two years as businesses try to get…
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Friday, 29 August 2014 06:26
Apple Bans Devs from Selling HealthKit Data to Ad Companies
Written by Sean Kalinich
Apple has made a decision about the data that is stored in their borrowed HealthKit API. The decision is to ban developers from sharing any of the data that the service collects to ad agencies. This move will be in…
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