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“Security”

Aug
2
2010

Suspension of the BlackBerry in the UAE: Washington is “Disappointed”

The United States Expressed “disappointment”  on Monday’s announcement by the UAE to  suspend certain services on October 11th  from BlackBerry multimedia phone, not conforming to the Laws in force in the country and poses security problems. “We Are Disappointed by this announcement,” Said Philip Crowley , Spokesman for the State Department . “We Will Clarify [...]

Jul
30
2010

Black Hat: ATMs are not well protected

ATMs hack is possible. At the Black Hat conference, Barnaby Jack, the security researcher, also director of research at IOActive Labs has highlighted vulnerabilities in software and physical equipment. The expert, who has spent several years in hacking ATM, presented two different methods to attack a Windows CE distributor: first, physical, using a master key [...]

Jun
14
2010

AT&T Apologizing for iPad Security Breach, TechCrunch awarding Goatse Security

The FBI investigation started on the whole case and now AT&T has sent out a letter to its customers, apologizing for the recent security breach which resulted in the exposure of 114,000 iPad 3G customer e-mails. AT&T Apologizes for iPad Security Breach letter is containing some explanations, details and how the incident happens and AT&T [...]

Jun
12
2010

Google Street View recordings were intentional?

The whole situation is getting complicated for the internet giant Google. Earlier it was assumed that Google cars has illegally collected data collecting data on the Wi-Fi (MAC addresses and SSID).Recently an NGO challenged Google by saying that they believe that these recordings were intentional. The NGO said “The independent review of Google’s system shows [...]

Jun
10
2010

Apple ipad fault, email address of its owners leaked

A fault on the iPad Two months back the iPad has been launched with a triumph by the Apple. The iPad has shown its first fault. Hackers have managed to obtain addresses of 114,000 mail-owners of the touch pad with a 3G access and subscription to the Telephone Company AT & T. Of the 114,000 [...]

May
20
2010

Investigations about Google “Street View”

The Authority for the Protection of Personal Data has launched an investigation to determine the lawfulness and fairness of the processing of personal data under the service “Street View” on Google. In the United States, Representatives Joe Barton (R-Tex.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation into the data [...]

May
11
2010

Twitter unblocks and returns the counters to zero

Twitter had a busy day yesterday due to a bug that allowed users to force other countries to follow their tweets through a single query “accept “username” . Quickly named “auto-follow” the fault, was exploitable by any user has created a panic on the network of microblogging, since many fans have abused to inflate the [...]

May
10
2010

New anti-piracy for Nintendo 3DS

The head of Nintendo said, without revealing much details that an enhanced copy protection system in its upcoming handheld 3D to be presented in June at E3. Nintendo has decided to resume the fight against piracy of its games. “We fear a form of thinking more and more common that paying for software is unnecessary [...]

Apr
22
2010

McAfee takes Windows XP to a virus

McAfee’s security solution has made available an update for its antivirus recognizes Windows XP SP3 for a virus, making it unusable for many PC companies. According to the Internet Storm Center, businesses using Windows XP SP3 have been affected by an update of the McAfee antivirus. This considers a valid Windows file as a virus [...]

Apr
10
2010

iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak: Just after few hours of its launch

Interestingly, jailbreak iPhone OS 4.0 was carried out just hours after Apple introduced the beta version of the operating system developer community and a file called iPhone2, 1_4.0_8A230m_Restore.ipsw appeared on torrent trackers. Looks like former glory Apple software as sustainable to burglary and intrusion detection and receding into the past. We have already reported the [...]