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University of Nebraska Student Records Breach Exposes 650,000 Individuals
The University of Nebraska is investigating a breach of their student information database discovered late Wednesday night last week. The security intrusion affected the Nebraska Student Information System, the University said in a statement late last week, it was caught by an IT administrator at the facility and the attempt was quashed by immediate and ...
Mind-Controlled Video Game Technology Not Yet Awesome but Still Cool
Every now and then a gimmick mind-control gesture is made from a technology company that tells people we’re a step closer to controlling computers with our minds. The Wall Street Journal has published an article on several such companies who are using a chip developed by San Jose-based NeuroSky Inc. that enables the manufacture of ...
Diablo III Hacked Account Rumors Abound After Launch
Activision-Blizzard has a penchant and reputation for making excellent, blockbuster games and Diablo 3 has been no exception. As of it’s launch, it came with some expected caveats including an always-connected element that forces players to connect to an Internet account in order to play the game on Blizzard’s servers. This has been explained by ...
NASA Denies Breach Claim by “The Cyber Warriors Team” Iranian Hacker Group
As a high profile agency within the US government, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a likely target for hackers looking to make their bones in the hacker scene. As a result, when last week it was announced that a new Iranian crew claimed they’d breached NASA’s servers by exploiting SSL certificates and ...
Sony Patent Reveals Weird Gameplay Rewind Advertisement Scheme
The folks over at ComputerAndVideoGames.com discovered an odd Sony patent filed last July that would enable an advertiser to display an advertisement while a video game is playing (allowing it to continue running in the background) and then rewind the game afterwards so the player could get back to business. It’s thought that this sort of ...
EMC President Pat Gelsinger Materializes Data Infrastructure in theCube at EMC World 2012
Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer of EMC, dropped into theCube at EMC World 2012 to speak with John Furrier and Dave Vellante—he visits every year at EMC World and always brings a lot of interesting insights into the moving-and-shaking projects at EMC. This time he sat down with the intrepid pair to talk ...
FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger in July; Google Sets Out to Warn the Infected
It’s the year 2012 and Mayan doomsday movies will abound—even though we unearthed another Mayan calendar that doesn’t end this year—for the Internet, we have a different blackout on the way and one that will affect more than 500,000 people. These people are infected with some pernicious malware called the DNSChanger Trojan used to hijack ...
VCE Chairman Michael Capellas Cheers On Convergence in theCube at EMC World 2012
Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon brought Michael Capellas, chairman of technology company VCE, into theCube at EMC World 2012 and spoke about the market for infrastructure solutions. As an infrastructure provider using a channeled distribution model and partnering with the best-in-breed in the market such as EMC, Intel, and Cisco, Capellas sees that ...
Anonymous Allegedly Leaks 1.7 GB U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Data
In what seems to be the most recent attention-grabbing stunt by the hactivist collective Anonymous is the announcement of the leak of 1.7 GB of data from a U.S. government entity whose job it is to inform the public of crime statistics. The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a lesser-known department of ...
Peter Chang CEO of Oxygen Cloud Talks Infrastructure at EMC World 2012
EMC has always been about storage and, as a result, how storage effects the use of data in computing architectures. Products such as Oxygen Cloud seeks to be part of this decoupling of data from computation, enabling data to float free from applications and allow it to be available anywhere. Peter Chang, CEO of Oxygen ...