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Xbox Maintains Stealth Living-Room Cloud Entertainment Crown
As expected, the position of a gaming console attached to millions of household TVs is proving to be an excellent strategy for Microsoft in their stealth attack into the set-top-box market. All Things D has run a blog post about a report from Freewheel—an online video advertisement company—that shows the inkling that this marketing tactic ...
Leaked FBI Report Shows Concern Over Bitcoin’s Attractiveness to Criminals
The FBI is apparently wary of the virtual cryptocurrency Bitcoin due to its applicability for criminals to use it to hide transactions from law enforcement—or, as they see it, use the currency for money laundering and scams. All of this was revealed in a leaked internal document outlining the Bureau’s concern about the virtual currency ...
The Pirate Bay Delivers Tongue-lashing to Anonymous over Virgin Media DDoS
The Pirate Bay is unhappy with hackers from Anonymous who have taken it upon themselves to punish Virgin Media for following the edicts of the UK High Court. Cells of the hacktivist collective have recently placed the ISP in their sights for a massive DDoS after the decision requested that ISPs censor TPB. Virgin Media ...
Symantec Mobile Leads the Pack in the Bring-Your-Own-Device Trend Security
As the enterprise sector begins to look deeper into the trend of allowing their workers to bring their own device to the workplace—as opposed to a proprietary model designed for the enterprise itself—a number of security risks begin to crop up. Uncontrolled hardware and software means that a bad guy or malware could gain access ...
55,000 Twitter Accounts and Passwords Leaked Partially Spambots, Duplicates, Old LulzSec Leak
Yesterday, a gigantic leak of over 55,000 account credentials (usernames and passwords) from Twitter were leaked to Pastebin by an unknown benefactor. According to a CNET article on the event, Twitter is looking into the problem right now—and, after some investigation, found some oddities in the list. The first to break the story was the ...
NASA, Air Force, Harvard Compromised by Hacker Crew ‘The Unknowns’
Last month saw a rash of hacks hit a variety of high profile targets including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense, the European Space Agency, the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, the Thai Royal Navy, and Harvard University’s School of Public Health—the attackers, acknowledged now as a hacker crew going by the ...
Scalify Raises $2 Million for Peer-to-Peer Cloud-Gaming Networking
Melbourne-based gaming start-up Scalify is looking to amplify their efforts to bring peer-to-peer networking to the gaming community after an infusion of $2 million in investment from Starfish Ventures. According to an article in VentureBeat, the start-up intends to use this investment to increase their stake in a networking technology that they’re selling to networked-gaming ...
Video Game Uses the Crowd-Sourced Gaming to Help Doctors Diagnose Malaria
Researchers at the University of California are seeking to make gamers the next line of defense in the fight against malaria via a free Internet-based pattern recognition game that has players play “pick the infected blood cell.” Standard identification of an infection involves a trained researcher staring down the barrel of a microscope and counting ...
The Pirate Bay Experiences Traffic Boost After Block; Youth Look into Privacy via VPN
In what can only be expected to be a reflection of the Streisand Effect phenomena—the more you try to hide something on the Internet, the more people will spread it around—the UK High Court’s move to force ISPs to block The Pirate Bay has been met with a traffic boost of 12 million. Also in ...
Google: Don’t Force a Merge Between G+ and YouTube for Upvotes
It may be a matter of a development mistake or it could be that Google is on the verge of a drop over a very serious precipice: merging G+ and YouTube and forcing users to have G+ accounts in order to upvote videos. Last night, well-known science fiction actor Wil Wheaton—who played Westly Crusher on ...