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Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility
With the climb of mobile banking, and now the event horizon for the use of mobile phones as wallets, we’re going to start seeing a great deal more security issues also appear in this financial forest. Recently, a security research team discovered that the PIN number used by Google Wallet to secure payments on-the-go could ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games as a Model for Business Collaboration
Video games aren’t just a wave of the future; they’re the current reality for millions of players who take to their consoles and PCs every day. The video game industry is the fastest growing entertainment market on Earth right now and we’re constantly seeing new innovations extend from it that effect as-yet-unknown markets. One of those regions ...
Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt
The source code stolen from Symantec in 2006 has been waiting in limbo for the past month as part of a hostage negotiation between the hacker Yama Tough and a persona invented by law enforcement officials to attempt to get the hacker to reveal themselves. This story first began to unfold back in January when ...
Mobile Malware Hosted on German Server Shows Diversity of Fraud
The ecology of mobile malware is beginning to take root and grow into a real wilderness as malicious software authors continue to penetrate the market. Fortunately, we have numerous vendors working to protect people’s phones. Recently, many antivirus and mobile security vendors discovered an interesting mix of malware being hosted on an undisclosed server in ...
Physibles Come to Town with First Downloaded, 3D Printed Pirate Bay Ship
The introduction of the Internet, vast amounts of storage, and the ability to copy what we see in high fidelity into an electronic form has exploded the copyright issue wide open on a multitude of fronts. However, the concept of being able to turn something inherently electronic into a tangible product has been out of ...
Nintendo Network Shows Console Giant is Finally Serious About Going Online
While Microsoft and Sony have taken expertly to the realm of Internet connectivity, networks, and DLC content with their consoles, Nintendo still seems to be lagging far behind in getting wired. It looks like with their slumping sales, the console behemoth is finally coming around to hook up into this vast economic springboard and that ...
EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic Stats Made Public: 239 Million In-Game Hours Played
Since its release in late December, Star Wars: the Old Republic has sold over 2 million copies and boasts 1.7 million active users. This is being touted as the fastest growing massively-multiplayer online game of all time, dwarfing any other launch in sheer adoption by the player community. The game is a brilliant and astounding ...
Dwolla Brings Mobile Money to iOS and Android with Big Update
Des Moines-based Dwolla has expanded it’s capabilities for mobile users seeking to exchange money on-the-go with updates to their iOS and Android apps. Be sure to check out the images of the apps embedded below. Last December, the financial-network service released “Instant,” a payment mechanism as an opt-in feature that allows Dowalla customers install access ...
Bitcoins for World of Warcraft Virtual Gold? Just Look to Bitmit.net
The ever-popular World of Warcraft published by Blizzard is one of the most-played massively-multiplayer video games of all time (it’s certainly the most-subscribed) and there’s been a thriving economy in the game for some time. We’ve described this economy on SiliconANGLE before when we looked at statistics about where the gold in the game was ...
The Ukraine’s Largest File-Sharing Site Ex.ua Goes Dark After Raid
In what’s becoming the dark-age for cyberlockers, Ukraine-based Ex.ua just went dark after country authorities raided the site and seized equipment. According to an article on TorrentFreak, since being founded in 2009 it has been one of the most visited sites in the Ukraine and used to house 200 servers and over 6,000 terabytes of ...