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Think Pink: OtterBox Cases Benefit Avon Breast Cancer Crusade for Valentine’s Day
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Avid Brings Big-Screen Moviemaking to the iPad
02 February 2012 4:45 PM | No CommentsBURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced the release of its first video editing application for the iPad—Avid Studio, available immediately at the Apple...
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ZTE Optik is an Android Tablet Offering Sprint Customers a Combination E-reader, Media Player and Portable Computing Device at an Affordable Price
02 February 2012 3:25 PM | No CommentsOVERLAND PARK, Kan. & RICHARDSON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Beginning on Sunday, Feb. 5, Sprint (NYSE:S) will introduce its first tablet for under $100, ZTE Optik™, a Sprint 3G tablet featuring a 7-inch touchscreen...
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Bally Technologies Expands Mobile App Games Library with Four New Titles
02 February 2012 2:02 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, mobile and interactive solutions, and networked systems, today announced the...
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AT&T Takes Top Spot as Sprint, T-Mobile Fall in Mobile Phone Customer Service Survey
02 February 2012 1:00 PM | No CommentsMINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AT&T took the lead in customer service quality in the last three months of 2011 as Sprint and T-Mobile lost ground, according to the latest study on phone-based customer ...
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Think Pink: OtterBox Cases Benefit Avon Breast Cancer Crusade for Valentine’s Day
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Disgruntled ex-garage employee exploits system to remotely disable more than 100 cars
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsNow here's a delightful story. A gentleman in Austin, Texas was laid off from his job as a car mechanic. The thing is, he was "pretty good with computers." So, in order to get petty revenge on his former employers, he used a system to remotely disable more than 100 cars. Fun!
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Hackers cost U.S. businesses $25 million in phishing-related scams in 2009
Posted on March 9, 2010 | No CommentsFrom now on, any story about "hackers" or "hacking" will be accompanied by a link to the song "Halcyon And On And On," as made famous by the movie Hackers. With that in mind: who made more money last year, Wall Street fat-cats or hackers? The U.S. FDIC says that online scams cost businesses $25 million last year. These scams include phishing and other associated nonsense, which you really ought to be smart to nowadays.
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World of Warcraft hackers embrace man-in-the-middle attacks
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsHere's some troubling news for my fellow World of Warcraftplayers. It seems that hackers, account thieves, and other miscreants have now embraced man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks to further their evil ways. Blizzard says it's not a widespread issue, and it's rather difficult to pull off, but it's something y'all should be aware of.
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Trying to track down those Chinese hackers
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No CommentsMore news from that China hacking deal. Investigators have tracked the attacks that befell Google and other victims to two schools in China, one of which has ties to the Chinese military. Whether or not this was an officially sanctioned series of attacks, or merely a couple of comp-sci students testing out their skills, clearly nobody knows. That's the beauty of these hacks: there's not a chance in hell there's going to be a "smoking gun," giving the hosts of The Today Show a three minute segment on Chinese hacking.
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More Bars, Less Security, in More Places: AT&T can’t keep out script kiddies UPDATE
Posted on August 20, 2009 | No CommentsKevin’s new phone There’s a guy named Kevin Mitnick who, once upon a time, was public enemy number one when it came to computer crime. Mitnick has turned over a new leaf and is now a computer crime consultant and, apparently, his disloyalty to the script-kiddie credo has made him a target for hackers. These hackers are [...] -
Police try to trick hackers, with hilarious results
Posted on August 18, 2009 | No CommentsHere's a fun story. Police in Australia thought they were being mighty clever when they took over an “underground hacking forum.” (The forum is r00t-y0u.org, though it seems to be down right now.) One of the hackers on the forum then retaliated by breaking into police computers using a simple SQL injection. Security fail.