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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 16:35
Want to Help Larry Laffer Ride Again? You Can!
Written by Sean Kalinich
Back in the heady days of the late 80’s the gaming scene was not all that amazing. Sure you had a few notable exceptions but let’s face it, the technology was anything but stellar. I can still remember many of…
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Monday, 26 March 2012 22:43
Microsoft Admits to Blocking all Pirate Bay Links on Messenger
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft is in the news again today as they are officially admitting to blocking any links to The Pirate Bay on their Messenger Software. The possibility that Microsoft was blocking links was first raised last week as more than a…
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Monday, 26 March 2012 19:31
Microsoft puts a Small Dent in the Zeus Family of Botnets
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft has scored a fairly important (if somewhat small) victory over some of the real cyber criminals out there. This morning they announced that through a joint effort with the US Marshals, Multiple Financial organizations they were able to bring…
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Friday, 23 March 2012 11:43
Heat, Battery Life, and Poor WiFi all Hurting the New iPad
Written by Sean Kalinich
The New iPad is having a VERY rough time for a new Apple product. Even the iPhone 4 with its “antennagate” issue has not gotten as much press for so many problems. The first one that was brought to our…
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Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:20
Apple Denied Access to Google Development Documents, For Now
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although this is not “News” any longer we thought that we would touch on something that has been happening in the Apple/Motorola Mobility/Google legal war. As we mentioned a while ago Apple had demanded that Google (the soon to be…
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:27
2012 looks like it is the year of the leak; this time it is nVidia... again
Written by Sean Kalinich
Wow it looks like this month is the moth for leaks; we have seen early leaks on Intel’s Z77 chipset, nVidia’s mobile Kepler GPU and even early full reviews of Intel’s Ivy Bridge (this incident sent some at Intel over…
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012 20:25
Windows 8 Tops the List for Futuremark's Peacekeeper Bench
Written by Sean Kalinich
Windows 8 will be released for both x86 and ARM tablets in Q4 of this year (2012). We have talked about what that means to both Apple and Google and managed to ruffle more than a few feathers in the…
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Monday, 19 March 2012 16:34
DecryptedTech's One Year Anniversary Modding Competition Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
About a year ago we re-launched DecryptedTech; prior to that the site was intended to fill in the gaps in other projects that I was working on. However, I soon decided that I wanted to build something new and different…
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Friday, 16 March 2012 10:16
Anonymous-OS Turns out to be another attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the "real" Anonymous
Written by Sean Kalinich
FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) comes in many forms. The most common is through the use of the News (printed and internet) here as hundreds of millions of people consume content from multiple sources the seeds of misinformation can be…
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Sunday, 11 March 2012 10:44
Subpoenas Issued Demanding Logs and IP Addresses for some Occupy Websites
Written by Sean Kalinich
In a very interesting twist on the Occupy movement Subpoenas are being issued demanding information relating to many of the Websites that related to the Occupy cause. One of the Subpoenas that was posted on Scribd.com is asking for quite…
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Friday, 09 March 2012 20:36
Google Chrome's Sand Box Takes a Kicking at CanSecWest; Gets Hacked Three Times
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google’s previously unassailable Chrome web browser has now been hacked three times in only two days. The first two we have already told you about in a previous article. Vupen a French research company found a 0-day exploit that allowed…
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Although not incredibly big news it looks like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 has fallen to exploits on Thursday during the Pwn2Own competition. Once again it was Vupen that managed the exploit. Interestingly enough as with Chrome it took two separate…
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The Pwn2Own completion is in full swing and this year we find that Google’s Chrome web browser is the first to fall. Google has claimed in the past that Chrome is the most secure browser (in addition to claiming it…
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:56
Facebook is moving Pages to Timeline on March 30th
Written by Sean Kalinich
Well we knew it was just a matter of time before this happened, but it looks like Facebook was intent on forcing the Timeline view on everyone. We opened up the DecryptedTech page this morning and were greeted with a…
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:22
Asus Annoucnes new Transfomers includes a 4G LTE model...
Written by Sean Kalinich
So Asus has released the specifications of their next generation Transformers and as we told you they are not getting rid of the Tegra 3 for their HD version of the popular tablet. The original rumor was that Asus was…
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Monday, 27 February 2012 21:47
Anonymous and Occupy want to Occupy the Vote in 2012
Written by Sean Kalinich
In what has to be one of the most unusual “Get-The-Vote-Out” campaigns that I have personally seen it appears that Anonymous and the Occupy group are urging people to hold politicians accountable for their actions by voting them out of…
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