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The Future of Android, Part 2: Security Snafus

The Future of Android, Part 1: The Legal Squeeze The number of attacks on Android devices has been rising over the past few months....

DefCon Welcomes Kids: Hacking Fun for Everyone

The twenty-somethings arrested by the FBI in July on suspicion of partaking in criminal activities tied to the Anonymous hacker community may soon be regarded as geriatrics The first annual hacker conference for kids, DefCon Kids, was held in Las Vegas last weekend as part of DefCon, which bills itself as the world's largest hacker conference....

Sprint Conquer Breaks the C-Note Barrier

Sprint on Friday unveiled the Samsung Conquer 4G, an Android smartphone that will be available for purchase Aug. 21 ...

MED TECH

Invasion of the Body Hackers? Wireless Medical Devices Susceptible to Attacks

Security expert and diabetic Jerome Radcliffe has hacked into the wireless insulin pump he wears on his body around the clock to keep his blood sugar level stable Radcliffe talked about the hack in a presentation at the Black Hat Security Conference, held in Las Vegas....

Of Horseshoes, Hand Grenades and Broadband Advertising

Broadband service providers in the United States are celebrating the results of the Federal Communications Commission's findings on the contentious question of broadband speeds in the country The FCC has found that actual sustained download speeds are much closer to the speeds advertised by ISPs than was the case in early 2009....

Now That We Know There’s a Rat Among Us, What’s Next?

Security vendor McAfee earlier this week revealed Operation Shady Rat, a long-running series of network intrusions and acts of data theft that preyed on organizations all over the world. However, the revelation of Shady Rat came as little surprise to some in the security community. "This is simply the latest example of something we recognized arou...

McAfee Smells a Rat

Security vendor McAfee has released information pertaining to a years-long series of network intrusions and data theft incidents that the company has collectively dubbed "Operation Shady RAT." The data stolen falls into a broad range of categories: closely guarded national secrets, negotiation plans and exploration details for new oil and gas field...

The Future of Android, Part 1: The Legal Squeeze

To say Android's popular among consumers is like saying Godzilla's a lizard. It's a question of degree More than 500,000 new Android devices were being activated daily, and the number was growing at 4.4 percent week over week, Google's Andy Rubin tweeted in late June....

Adobe’s Edge Lets Devs Wedge a Foot in HTML5 Door

Adobe on Monday announced the first public preview release of its Edge HTML 5 Web motion and interaction design tool This lets Web designers add animation to websites using standards such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS in much the same way they do with Flash Professional, Adobe said....

Motorola Photon: Many Glowing Reviews, a Few Dark Glares

Motorola's latest high-end Android smartphone, the Photon, has hit the shelves at Sprint stores for US$200 and a two-year contract ...

Dell’s 10-Inch Streak Is Business Up Front, Party Out Back

Dell on Friday launched the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet in China. This is the company's first 10-inch tablet. It runs Android Honeycomb 3.1 ...

SCIENCE

Time Travel a No Go? No Way

It appears that scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology proved recently that you can't travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum That discovery, howled many popular publications, means time travel is impossible....

New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In

Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore The organization maintains a set of Open Cloud Principles, adherence to which will determine whether a given product or service can ...

Seeking Tomorrow’s Security Solutions Today, Part 2

Seeking Tomorrow's Security Solutions Today, Part 1 A widely held view in the security community is that currently available security technology just can't cope with the new types of attacks being launched on IT infrastructures....

Kinder, Gentler Anons Call for PayPal Boycott

Notorious hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec on Wednesday urged people to boycott PayPal for the online payment system's refusal to facilitate donations to WikiLeaks The hacktivists set up a Twitter thread, #OpPayPal, and claim that at least 20,000 people have canceled their PayPal accounts in response to their call....

Mozilla’s Head Is in the Cloud With New Mobile OS Idea

The Mozilla Foundation is looking into creating a standalone mobile operating system for the open Web A team of programmers from the organization has set up the Boot to Gecko (B2G) project to work on this idea....

Microsoft’s Avatar Kinect: I Chat the Body Electric

Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360 is a chat service that will leverage the Kinect's camera, which tracks users' gestures and facial expressions....

Google+ Name Game: Who Are the Biggest Losers?

Google has begun cleaning up its recently launched Google+ service, and in doing so, it's deleted some legitimate users' accounts Those with dumped accounts include a user calling himself "Dylan M," who has the Twitter handle @thomasmonopoly, as well as Limor Fried, A.K.A. "Ladyada."

RIM’s Big Push: Making Room for Android, Making Movies and Making Everything Secure

Occluded by the opposition and battered by poor financial results, Research In Motion on Friday made announcements aimed at shoring up its sagging fortunes The mobile device maker announced it has received FIPS 140-2 certification from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology....

What Does Google+ Want to Be When It Grows Up?

Membership in Google+, which was launched only about three weeks ago, is soaring Calculations by Comscore indicate the service had 20 million visitors in just 21 days....

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