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Xbox 720 Leak Confuses Press While Microsoft Uses Copyright to Suppress Document
Over the weekend a strange document leaked from Microsoft that quickly spread into numerous cloud storage venues outlining a long-term plan for the Xbox 720. The video game console giant was extremely slow to move to do anything about the leak and also languorously began to send out copyright notices to various settings to have ...
Security Expert Bruce Schneier Admonishes Antivirus Industry Over Flame, DuQu, and Stuxnet
The subject of state-sponsored malware has become a major topic across the cybersecurity media lines, and for good reason: not only has it been caught in the nets of antivirus firms, but we’ve decompiled it and received confirmation from the states who released it. However, it turns out that the antivirus industry is poorly suited ...
How Microsoft Surface Could Take Advantage of SmartGlass and Kinect Technology
The mystery Microsoft tablet Surface is out and it has nothing to do with the Xbox—not a disappointment to anyone, although the mystery still continues across some elements of the tablet’s technology. Looking at other developments across Microsoft’s technology line, it’s about time we start speculating about how the software giant intends to differentiate themselves ...
Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick Joins Forces with KnowBe4
Clearwater, FL-based cybersecurity outfit KnowBe4 provides training for business and enterprise groups on what to expect when an attacker (be it malware or a person) attempts to gain access to their systems. They have joined forces with previously famous hacker Kevin Mitnick—well known for penetrating the Army and the Pentagon in 1983 when he was ...
Learning the Lesson of the Kobayashi Maru: Cybersecurity, Thinking Like the Enemy, and Big Data
Any time there is something valuable it means that multiple parties want it, be it the Maltese Falcon, state nuclear secrets, proprietary business information, or a database full of usernames and passwords for a popular forum. James Caroland, U.S. Cyber Command, and Greg Conti, Director of the Cyber Security Research Center at West Point, put ...
Gmail Accounts Hijacked by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ via IE Zero-Day
Both Microsoft and Google have been at the press to warn users that attackers are using a new zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer being used to hijack Gmail accounts. The flaw is currently unpatched (fitting any zero-day exploit) and enables an attacker to create a drive-by attack that could hook most users with little or ...
Zynga on the Rocks as Population Falls, Stock Price Takes a Dive
The Internet social gaming community has a love-hate relationship with Zynga in that they produced one of the most popular social gaming series ever to hit the web—that in the Farmville franchise. In fact, they were so instrumental in bringing critical mass to casual gaming on platforms such as Facebook. Yesterday, Zynga’s shares fell with ...
TheCube at Dell Storage Forum Examines VMware-Dell Partnership for Virtualization and the Cloud
Stu Miniman brought Felipe Payet and Tracy Waller from VMware into theCube at Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston, MA to talk about the VMWare-Dell partnership and how that affects the virtualization ecology in the technology sphere. They sat down and spoke about mission-critical virtualization, development, and their role in the partnership and how they’ve ...
Blizzard Threatens Diablo III Cheaters With Permanent Ban for Mods, Bots, or Hacks
Cheating is a prevalent problem across a multitude of online video games—and it’s well known in Blizzard’s previous titles in the Diablo series especially Diablo II. In an attempt to head off potential cheaters in their new Diablo III product, Blizzard is seeking the essential “death penalty” to players caught cheating with a permanent ban ...
10,000 Twitter Accounts Leaked by LulzSec Reborn via TweetGif
The reincarnation of LulzSec—a now disbanded hacker Internet-mayhem group who ruled the cyberseas and media for a portion of last year—has surfaced with a notable leak of Twitter authentication belonging to users who signed up for TweetGif, an animated GIF-sharing application. The group “LulzSec Reborn” published a .SQL file on Pastebin.org containing a staggering amount ...