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Rights Corp might have offered a piece of the settlement pie to Cox
Posted on Tuesday, 26 May 2015
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Sean Kalinich
The idea of copyright was and is a good thing. Being able to temporarily protect your artistic investment is never wrong. The problem comes when the copyright holders get greedy or feel that their copyright grants them special rights and…
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Fun with DNS hacking and the importance of updating your router
Posted on Tuesday, 26 May 2015
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Sean Kalinich
On March 2 2015 CVE-2015-1187 was released. This alert indicated that a simple cross-site request forgery allowed someone (the “bad” guys) to hijack DNS settings on a wide range of routers. By doing this they were able to point people…
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Nothing like GPU accelerated malware to brighten your day
Posted on Wednesday, 13 May 2015
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Sean Kalinich
The idea of GPU accelerated applications is one that has caught the attention of many developers over the years since we first heard about it. It is a great advancement in technology that allows you to use the parallel processing…
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Apple faces FTC investigation into Beats Streaming Service.
Posted on Wednesday, 06 May 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Remember that pesky anti-trust suit that Apple faced over fixing eBook prices with publishers? Well if not, let me remind you. When Apple brought their eBook store to iOS they knew they were facing an uphill battle against Amazon. To…
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Black Mesa Source Moves to Steam Early Access
Posted on Tuesday, 05 May 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Half Life is one of those games, along with Doom and Castle Wolfenstein, which helped define an entire genre of games. It gave us a new type of hero as well, the crowbar toting MIT PHD Gordon Freeman. Since the…
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Mumblehard Spamming Malware Making the Rounds in Joomla and WordPress sites
Posted on Friday, 01 May 2015
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Sean Kalinich
There is a common belief that Linux and BSD operating systems are, by their nature, much more secure than anything Microsoft has ever released. The problem with this belief is that it is simply not true. Linux, BSD and Windows…
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Very few bright spots to be seen in AMD's future
Posted on Tuesday, 28 April 2015
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Sean Kalinich
In the last couple of months we have talked a lot about AMD and the direction they are trying to move to. Most of what we have reported is not good news and centers on the fact that AMD’s R&D/production…
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SMB, Windows and the hole that has been open since 1997
Posted on Monday, 20 April 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend there was a lot of talk about how Windows in particular is vulnerable to a flaw that is linked to SMB. This flaw could allow someone to grab user information by forcing a redirect to a malicious…
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AMD cuts orders to Global Foundries... Are they pulling in for one last effort?
Posted on Friday, 17 April 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Although you would not think it possible, AMD is still having issues that stem back from their purchase of ATi all those years ago. As most of you are sick of hearing the details of that acquisition and the gradual…
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Florida Judge Says that an IP Address is not enough to prove piracy
Posted on Monday, 13 April 2015
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Sean Kalinich
If you have been following news about piracy, copyright, or indeed almost anything you will know that the copyright industry often employs some rather shady methods to get their way. One of the shadiest methods is the demand letter. If…
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Global Foundries announces 14nm process in partnetship with Samsung
Posted on Monday, 06 April 2015
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Sean Kalinich
When it comes to competing in the CPU market, one of AMD’s big issues has been trying to get to the same process as Intel. Ever since the purchase of ATi by AMD they have always been one (and in…
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"New" Exploit using WordPress and Pirate Bay Clone to Spread Malware
Posted on Thursday, 02 April 2015
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Sean Kalinich
It is no secret that malware is often spread through sites that offer pirated content. No matter the type of content there is a chance that someone has put up a file that is little more than malware. This type…
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PoS systems are the new compromise cash cow...
Posted on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
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Sean Kalinich
The Point of Sale (PoS) station is probably one of the most targeted devices in recent years. There are multiple reasons for this: older operating systems, the need to POS users to have admin rights, generic logons for the “windows”…
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More hacking fun with the UEFI BIOS
Posted on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Back in August of 2014 while covering DEFCON 22 we sat in on a talk about how insecure the UEFI BIOS was and how it could potentially grant a malicious person ring zero access to your system. The talk was…
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AMD only putting HBM into the Radeon 380 and 390... why?
Posted on Monday, 23 March 2015
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Sean Kalinich
We have talked about some of the challenges that AMD is facing due to poor sales (and bad leadership), but many of these challenges have not been as evident as what is happening in the GPU world. Although we have…
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Windows 10 Pirate Edition Update... Things are just as confusing.
Posted on Friday, 20 March 2015
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Sean Kalinich
So, remember that comment Microsoft made about upgrading non-genuine version of Windows 7 and 8.x to Windows 10? Well we finally have some more information on that. Sadly the new information causes more confusion than it clears up. According to…
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