by Joseph Forbes | Jan 24, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the all-a-mpaa-front-anyhow dept. Kim Dotcom launched his new project Mega on Sunday, claiming it was to be ‘the privacy company.’ But it might not be so private after all, as security professionals have ripped it to shreds. There are numerous...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 24, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the my-decoy-phone-will-fool-them-all dept. Call it Google Analytics for physical storefronts: if you’ve got a phone with wi-fi, stores can detect your MAC address and track your comings and goings, determining which aisles you go to and whether...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the savings-passed-onto-board dept. AT&T has purchased the U.S. retail wireless operations of Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATNI) for $780 Million. Alltel operates under the Alltel brand in several markets. The acquisition includes wireless properties,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the great-firewall-of-america dept. The first shot was probably the release of Stuxnet sometime during or before 2009. Even though no one has officially claimed responsibility everyone knows who was behind it. Stuxnet hit with a bang and did a whole lot of damage...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | Malware Reports
Trend Micro has discovered new trojans which camouflage their communication by imitating common instant messaging protocols such as Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. The security company has dubbed the trojans “Fakem RATs” (a RAT being a remote...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the does-not-involve-hondas dept. Yesterday in a post at the White House website, the U.S. government announced that June 1-2 would be the National Day of Civic Hacking. ‘Civic Hacking Day is an opportunity for software developers, technologists, and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced Super HD, an immersive theatrical video format that looks more lifelike than any Web stream, even competing with Blu-Ray discs. But there’s a costly catch. To watch the high-definition, 1080p movies when...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
Information advantage has always equaled power. The group in society that can control what the other groups know and don’t know will rise to power in every other aspect. Therefore, information technology has always been policed and even militarized to some extent, by...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Malware Reports, SECURITY
Recently, a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422) was disclosed. Oracle promptly reacted on this 0-day vulnerability, and last weekend a new patch was made available. Here’s the advisory from Oracle. You can download latest JRE here. As the vulnerability is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
NewScientist reports, ‘Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.’ Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm...
