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Google’s Nexus Q Rolls Into the Living Room with 5 Potential Future Hacks
Last week at Google I/O 2012, the Nexus Q was unveiled to a spellbound public. This interesting living-room device arrives with a price tag of $299 and boasts the capability of being extremely hackable with an Android OS and a micro-USB port to provide access to developers and Makers. No doubt, Google already has some ...
Ubisoft Accidentally Leaks Hundreds of Customer E-mail Addresses in Watch Dogs Marketing Snafu
The video game Watch Dogs—a beautiful-looking technoir thriller about Big Data and paranoia—has gotten its publisher, Ubisoft, into hot water when it comes to the very same sort of sentiment portrayed in the game: accidental breach of privacy. In their marketing, the publisher accidentally exposed numerous fan e-mails to the public. Ubisoft decided to run ...
Facebook Testing “Want” Button: A Preemptive Strike Against Amazon and Pinterest Wishlists?
Facebook is developing a new functionality into its SDK to allow users to “Want” something with much the same functionality as they could use to “Like” something. Developer Tom Waddington says that he discovered the functionality in Facebook’s JavaScript SDK under the tag that reads “<fb:wants>,” and it looks like it can be displayed, but ...
Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Japanese Website Outages, Defacement
Not to sit idly on their collective Guy Fawkes masks, Anonymous has found a new target to harass for violating their sense of information ethics: Japan. The websites of Japan’s Finance Ministry, Supreme Court and political parties DPJ and LDP were taken offline briefly by the hacktivist collective; also a number of the Finance Ministry’s ...
Google Glasses at Google I/O 2012: Capture and Share Your World
Google has been riding a wave of hype related to their Google Glasses (called “Project Glass”) and they’re not shy about this product—in fact, they interrupted their own G+ product keynote portion to demo the glasses and provide the astonished audience with a multitude of uses for the new social- and Internet-enabled glasses. The first ...
Scientists Open Up RSA SecurID 800 and Steal Cryptographic Keys in Under 13 Minutes
An exploit revealed in a paper [PDF] at the CRYPTO 2012 conference shows a flaw in some of RSA’s products that can allow the rapid extraction of secret symmetric secret keys. According to researchers, it could be done as quickly as 13 minutes against a device such as RSA’s SecurID 800—a widely used product that ...
A Powerful Case for Good Use of Big Data for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity via Splunk
When it comes to protecting an enterprise network or a government network there’s a great deal of discussion about what solutions exist to batten down the hatches and dog the doors against intruders; but often the same technologies we use to detect intruders (and insiders) can be used to predict failures. Amid the solutions the ...
Boxopus Brings Torrents Out of the Cloud and Directly Into Your Dropbox
It’s strange that the function of peer-to-peer technology doesn’t often combine directly with cloud efforts because the strategy behind p2p fits so neatly into the jigsaw of the cloud. It certainly does combine behind the scenes more often than not, even though much of the media industry seems to be out to demonize BitTorrent, we ...
Bitinstant Reviews The Bitcoin Card, It’s Real: Small, Thin, and Smart
Earlier this month SiliconANGLE got wind of a new piece of technology being developed to revolutionize mobile cash transactions by giving people the ability to store and transfer bitcoins via a device as small and thin as a credit card. Not just the usual smartcard, but a pretty impressive piece of technology that combines networking, ...
“Cascading Bug” Bites Twitter Drawing the Wrath of the Fail Whale
Today a lot of Twitter users found themselves unable to access their tweets and retweet their friends after Twitter suffered a bug that caused it to become intermittently inaccessible to their users. The fail whale once again reared its albino head with a huge splashdown starting at around 12pm ET and it affected almost all ...