by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | DATA, GMAIL, HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the bulldoze-away dept. A few years ago, when Google was determining which city to launch its pilot Google Fiber program, cities all over the country went all-out trying to persuade the search giant to bring all that fantastical bandwidth to their neck of the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the stop-or-i’ll-say-stop-again dept. Social Media Widget, a free plug-in for the WordPress blogging platform with more than a million downloads, was restored to WordPress’s official plugin directory on Thursday, days after it was found injecting...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | EDUCATION, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the you-put-me-right-off-my-fresh-fried-lobster dept. Two hundred hackers from around the world gathered at a Miami Beach hotel Thursday and Friday for the Infiltrate Security conference, which focuses on systems hacking from the ‘offensive’...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
from the pressing-all-the-words dept. “Some of us have been experiencing attacks on WordPress sites for the last few days, but it’s now beginning to be widely reported that there’s a fairly large brute force attack happening on WordPress users on...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, GMAIL, HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the beat-the-heat-stay-indoors-with-fiber dept. “With its technology-centric culture, the Silicon Hills of Austin, TX could have been the perfect city for the first iteration of Google Fiber. Austinites will just have to settle with being only the second...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the please-see-previous-department-line dept. Recently, an article was posted on Slashdot about the claim that law enforcement made about being frustrated by their inability to decrypt messages using Apple’s iMessage. However, this article on Techdirt...
