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MakerBot Gives Life to the Physible and Decade-Lost Nostalgia with the Mixtape Kit
MakerBot, the builder of a 3D printer-extruder platform for consumers, is mixing it up (almost literally) by releasing a mixtape kit. The kit enables the MakerBot to build a USB flash-player version of the vintage concept of making a cassette tape for your friend filled with your favorite music. Nowadays cassettes tapes are so far ...
Anonymous Readies to Expose 40GB of ISP Data from Australian Providers
In what would reveal sensitive information about over 600,000 Australian Internet subscribers, a cell of the hactivist collective has revealed that they’re about to expose a leak of 40GB of data taken from an ISP Down Under. The news comes from an article penned in The Register, and even speculates that the likely victim is ...
Gaming Site Gamigo Hacked, 8 Million User E-mail Addresses and Passwords Leaked
About four months ago free-to-play publisher and gaming site Gamigo warned users about a potential hacker breach of their databases, and last week that warning came to fruition: over 8 million usernames, e-mail addresses, and encrypted passwords have been published to the web from that hack. Forbes contacted the data breach alert service PwndList about ...
Anonymous Bleeding Oil Companies With Repeated Leaks
It looks like the hactivist collective Anonymous has been targeting Big Oil by hitting Shell, Exxon, BP and two Russian firms—Gazprom and Rosneft—in what appears to be part of a protest against a form of drilling that damages the Artic environment. The most recent leak published around 1,000 credentials, e-mail addresses belonging to the firms, ...
Researchers Obliterate Grum Botnet, E-mail Inboxes Everywhere Rejoice
In another sweeping takedown of yet-another-botnet run by Internet cybercriminals, researchers over at the security firm FireEye are announcing that they have dismantled the Grum botnet’s command and control servers. As of Wednesday, the final CnC servers–six located in Ukraine and one in Russia—had been taken offline; as a result, it’s expected that this may ...
Spam Sent to Dropbox E-mail Addresses Leads to Speculation About Breach
An odd spike in spam lead some users of Dropbox to wonder if the service had suffered a breach. The incident occurred when users of the cloud-locker service discovered that e-mail addresses they had uniquely made for those accounts received a sudden uptick in spam e-mails from various sources. This lead to threads being posted ...
OUYA Might Find Synergy with Services Such as Amazon’s Game Connect
The newly minted Android-based gaming console OUYA (recently upgraded to all caps and pronounced “oh-yeah” by many) has been catapulted into the public consciousness via an overwhelmingly supported Kickstarter campaign and brings a free-to-play gaming philosophy. Also on the near horizon, Amazon.com rushed to market with GameCircle and Game Connect, services designed to support the ...
Minecraft Hack Exposes the Fragility of Online Identity (But Not Usernames or Passwords)
Recently, the servers of Mojang’s extremely popular social video game Minecraft suffered an exploit that allowed users to log in as anyone they desired. Unlike the usual news of hacks, this didn’t mean that anyone gained access to databases of sensitive information or exfiltrated usernames and passwords; instead the exploit allowed users to log into the servers ...
Bitcoinica Can’t Catch a Break: Recent Breach Hemorrhages 40,000 BTC
In what appears to be an extension of security issues resulting from a previous breach in May, Bitcoinica—a Bitcoin Forex housing a lot of funds—had their MtGox account compromised and over ฿40,000 BTC were stolen along with a loss of almost $40,000 USD totaling about $350k USD. The initial breach, on May 11 of this ...
Facebook Security Checkpoint a Fair but Currently Flawed Idea
Not many months ago Facebook partnered with antivirus vendors to come up with a plan for aiding their customers in the ever ongoing fight against malware and mere days ago the Malware Checkpoint for Facebook was born. It enables the use of Scan and Repair by McAfee or Security Essentials by Microsoft (available via the ...