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Will Cable and Satellite Mean the Death of Free Hulu Internet TV?
Dark rumors and accusations seem to be telling a compelling narrative about Hulu—the broadly popular venue for free Internet TV (supported by advertisements)—potentially backing away from offering their media without strings to the pubic and instead requiring cable or satellite authentication. The New York Post reports that sources told them that this might be the ...
Flashback Trojan Sought $10,000 Per Day in Google Ad Revenue Fraud
According to the security outfit Symantec, the Flashback Trojan discovered to be infecting over 600,000 Mac OSX machines has a variant that may have net the botnet owners potentially up to $10,0000 a day. The malware targets Google advertisements in a click-fraud scheme that redirects users clicks from the targeted at to the botnet’s accounts. ...
UK High Court Rules That ISPs Must Block The Pirate Bay
In what would probably be the grand slam of censorship in the UK, the BBC is reporting that the High Court has ordered ISPs to block customer access to The Pirate Bay. Amid the ISPs caught up in this order are Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media and this is the culmination of ...
PC Gaming Rejoice: Valve Confirms Linux Version of Steam and the Source Engine
The bloggers over at the Linux blog Phoronix caught up with Valve’s CEO Gabe Newell to ask about his video game distribution service and their intent to port it to the open source Linux operating system. The rumors of this particular port have been floating around since 2010 and it’s taken a few years, but ...
Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010
In a statement released just yesterday Cryptic Game Studios—developer of City of Heroes, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and a few other online game titles—revealed that they discovered that their systems have been hacked…in December 2010. The delay? The statement enlightens readers that they discovered the hack from almost a year and a half ago ...
CISPA Passed by U.S. House of Representatives in Last Minute Vote
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or H.R. 3523, just passed the U.S. House of Representatives after the day-long hearing. Originally expected to be debated on the floor of the House today for a vote tomorrow, the bill’s supporters decided to push the vote today and it went through with 248 to 168. The ...
Google Drive Sparks Security Concerns but It’s Not that Different From Other Personal Cloud Offerings
The much-anticipated, somewhat anticlimactic launch of Google Drive has finally landed on the digital shores amid the personal cloud market. Like every other cloud-storage service available to individuals such as Dropbox, Box.net, Skydrive, and similar it comes with a privacy policy and a terms of service that has raised some eyebrows about how their data ...
Vibanko.com Closure Imminent: Move Those Bitcoins Before May 1st
It looks like the Bitcoin e-wallet service Vibanko.com by Bitcoin Consultancy—who also run the Bitcoin exchange Intersango —will be shutting down by May 1st 2012. An e-mail from Vibanko CTO Patrick Strateman has been sent out to warn about the imminent closure. A short warning appears on the Vibanko.com website as an announcement: Vibanko is no longer ...
Dropbox and Google Drive Inching into Megaupload “Criminal Conspiracy” Territory
The scars left in the cloud-storage industry are still red and angry after the FBI raided and shut down the popular, worldwide cyberlocker service Megaupload in January, so when people started to notice other cyberlockers fall afoul of the same issues, concern rises. Recently, Dropbox started to offer a service that allows users to directly ...
Video Chat While You Dominate on the PS Vita with Skype April 25th
Tomorrow, Skype will appear in the app store for Sony’s magnificent handheld PlayStation Vita—and the device is perfect for it. The Vita has two high quality cameras (forward and rear) and there are both Wi-Fi and 3G models capable of connecting to the Internet. Perfect for the gamer on-the-go who also wants to stay in ...