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Sunday, January 30, 2011

SourceForge attacked, resets 2 million account passwords to protect users

In the past three days, open-source community and project hosting network SourceForge has been attacked, its operations team detecting a targeted attack at the sites developer infrastructure.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Tawkon Debuts Limited Edition Of Cellphone Radiation App For Nexus S


When you buy a new smartphone, is the first thing you look at what the specific absorption rate (SAR) is of the device you’re interesting in spending cash on? Me neither, but according to some health organizations, we should be paying attention to mobile phone radiation.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

PSP2 to reveal on the 27th [Rumour]


The tech and gaming blogosphere seems very certain that Sony will be announcing the PlayStation Portable 2 at that meeting. To me it still seems an odd venue to announce a product, but then Sony has had such a bad track record of keeping secrets for big trade shows that perhaps they've thrown in the towel and opted for a smaller, more intimate reveal.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Facebook Blocks Roger Ebert's blog as 'abusive content'

Roger Ebert, movie critic, cancer survivor and undeniable king of the Twitter bon mot, publically debuted his new prosthetic jaw on a blog post Facebook blocked as "abusive content."

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Sony Sued PlayStation hacker Geohot over PS3 jailbreak

George Hotz a.k.a Geohot, who is well known for his contributions to the iPhone jailbreaking community, has found himself in legal trouble after publicly disclosing jailbreak exploits for Sony’s PlayStation 3 console.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Chinese Hackers Hack IE Via A unpatched Bug

An accidental leak may have confirmed Chinese hackers suspicions that Internet Explorer has a critical unpatched vulnerability, a security researcher said Saturday.Sunday, Microsoft said it was analyzing the vulnerability.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Nexus S OverClocked To 1.2Ghz

If you recently bought your Nexus S and found out that the Hummingbird processor was a bit slow,Luckily for you, morfic at XDA has managed to overclock Nexus S to 1.2 Ghz

Google Feeling Heat Over Android

Android device makers around the world are anticipating great things from the next version of Google's mobile software, and they need the boost. Apple has a strong head start with sales of its popular iPad, while the App Store and iTunes give it apps and content, to boot.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Hackers crack open GSM networks to eavesdrop on mobile calls

Researchers have found a way to eavesdrop upon any mobile call or text message sent via any GSM network, utilising open source phones that cost as little as $10, it has emerged.Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress (CCC) in Berlin, demonstrating techniques acquired from other researchers but also utilising their own technology to record calls.