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Tuesday, 29 July 2014 06:42
Dating Site OkCupid Says they Experiment on People Because They Do Not Know What They are Doing
Written by Sean Kalinich
Dating website OkCupid seems to think that Facebook’s manipulation of their subscriber’s news feeds as an emotional experiment is perfectly ok. Their reasoning? “That's how websites work.” Yes you read that right. According to Co-Founder Christian Rudder this type of…
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Monday, 28 July 2014 16:14
1.1 Million Piracy Notices Sent to ISPs Per Week
Written by Sean Kalinich
For years we have heard about the high cost of internet piracy, but other than some seriously twisted math we have never actually seen where this “cost” was coming from. At least not until very recently. No we are not…
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Monday, 28 July 2014 15:12
Crytek Blames Financial Trouble on Transition to Online Publisher, Says Things are All Better
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the past few months there have been more than a few articles about Crytek and its financial stability. We have heard many rumors including one that claimed they (Crytek) were unable to pay their employees. These rumors have come…
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Monday, 28 July 2014 10:47
New Pictures of the Steam Controller Found In Beta Client Update
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a new update in the never ending rumors surrounding Valve’s Steambox and Controller. After digging into a client update an interesting image popped up for the Steam Controller. It seems that Valve may be considering putting a traditional…
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Monday, 28 July 2014 06:43
Russia Offers a $111k Reward to De-Anonymize Tor
Written by Sean Kalinich
On Friday we wrote about a talk that was canceled at Black Hat 2014. This talk was to discuss a flaw in the Tor anonymizing network that would allow almost anyone to identify users on the network. This morning we…
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The long rumored acquisition of game-streaming service Twitch by Ad-Giant Google has finally been confirmed, in what is looking to be a $1Billion deal. The original rumor surfaced back in May of this year when an article appeared in Variety.…
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Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:23
Are Recent Teaser Tweets from 2k Games Pointing to a New Bioshock?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Why do the really great game development companies seem to disappear? If you have been around for a while you might remember a game development company by the name of Looking Glass Studios. This company is responsible for titles like…
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Thursday, 24 July 2014 06:44
Are Security Researchers Sitting on Vulnerabilities to Get the Most Money?
Written by Sean Kalinich
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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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:20
TOR Vulnerability Talk at Black HAT 2014 Canceld
Written by Sean Kalinich
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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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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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 06:35
Battlefield Hardline Delayed until Ealry 2015 to Improve The Game from Top to Bottom
Written by Sean Kalinich
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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Tuesday, 22 July 2014 16:09
New tracking method found that creates a fingerprint for your system
Written by Sean Kalinich
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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Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:11
Security Expert claims iOS "Undocumented Services" allow for data collection
Written by 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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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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Monday, 21 July 2014 18:23
Italy blocks Mega after getting off of the Special 301 Report Watch List
Written by 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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Monday, 21 July 2014 10:32
Developers complain about Valve security and get a reply
Written by 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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