In the title, imagine that the word scoop is taken with a real irony. When I saw my RSS feed and my Twitter feed, I thought it was information of the year! If Ben, researchers say indeed that Chrome OS can be hacked!and they took care of all details of the methodology in the security conference known as Black Hat (in Las Vegas on August 3) by presenting two videos of pirated material. The two researchers in question are called Matt Johanson and Kyle Osborn and part of the research center‘s security WhiteHat Security.
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Gassville, Arkansas — Chief of Police Tim Mayfield was found with images of a scantily-clad 13 year old Izabella Simone in his email account Saturday following a comprehensive leak of emails, passwords and documents retrieved after a widespread hack of 70 different official law enforcement websites.
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USER BASED ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA Wikipedia is seeing a substantial drop in contributors, according to its founder, Jimmy Wales.
Wales revealed that the online resource, which entirely depends on the contributions of users, is losing numbers, which could affect the quantity and quality of the content available.
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A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.
A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out by Canadian firm ApTiquant.
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Lot of people love Google’s new social network. But, I think it noteworthy when someone like Steve Kille, a former Senior Research Fellow at University College London and one of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)’s authors writes, “Google+ is very impressive. I reckon Facebook is toast.”
Teachers can be friendly with their students, but they can’t be their friends, at least when it comes to social networks such as Facebook. State Governor Jay Nixon has signed Senate Bill 54, which goes into effect on August 28, 2011 in the state of Missouri.
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Apple has just launched their web version of the soon-to-come iCloud over at iCloud.com. The site is only available for developers until it’s official launch, which is this fall. So far things are looking great and the interface, part of which can be seen above, is very appealing – using a look very much like the iPad’s. Check after the break for some screenshots of the new interface, originally posted at 9to5mac.
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How do one ex-Air Force official and one former airplane hobby shop owner, both of whom happen to have decades of experience as network security contractors for the military, spend their weekends? Building a flying, unmanned, automated password-cracking, Wi-Fi-sniffing, cell-phone eavesdropping spy drone, of course.
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Following a hearing in London’s High Court, leading UK ISP BT will be forced to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Under the banner of the MPA, the leading Hollywood studios successfully argued that by letting the site continue unabated their interests would be severely damaged. The decision, the first of its kind in the UK, increases the pressure on other ISPs.
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Among the many, many people who irk the anarchic message board 4chan, cyberbullying expert Parry Aftab is one of the most consistently despised. So it's not surprising that an anonymous internet denizen sent a SWAT team to her New Jersey home this weekend.
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Re: Stuff I watched recently...
After watching a few episodes of "Outer Range" season 2... I'm going to binge the rest tomorrow! Can't wait!!! Good Stuff!
Stehle Today, 02:47 AM