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Anonymous Hacks U.S. Security Think Tank Stratfor’s Christmas Stockings
Members of the Anonymous hactivist collective have come forward to claim that they raided U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor and stole the presents from beneath their Christmas tree—in the form of a database containing thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients. One hacker claimed that they intent was a sort ...
Rift Developer Trion Worlds Account Database Compromised
Last night, a carefully-worded e-mail went out to subscribers of Trion World’s massively multiplayer online role playing game, Rift announcing that the game developer’s user accounts had been compromised by hackers. The breadth and width of the breach is not currently known but it looks like the attackers stole a database containing pretty much basic ...
Microsoft Brings “Edutainment” to the Next Level with Sesame Street, Kinect Partnership
No doubt, Xbox has been changing the way that we view television by bringing Internet TV into the living room; but there’s still more avenues for Microsoft to tap with the universally plastic interactivity of the Kinect. The television show, Sesame Street has been an educator and entertainment option directed at children for decades now ...
Bitcoin vs. Western Union: It’s About Strength in Numbers
We’ve been following the ups and downs of Bitcoin now for quite some time. As a cryptocurrency it made its first steps into the light but timidly; for years the currency nestled down in the single-digit cents USD but with some media attention and careful cultivation it reached the bloggers. It’s seen at least one ...
Chinese Hackers Commando Exfiltrate U.S. Chamber of Commerce Data
Lots of attention has been directed at hackers possibly working out of China and the report of a year-old breach of the U.S. government connected to the country is only fanning the flames of that attention. The Wall Street Journal is reporting about an event that took place back in May 2010 when hackers breached ...
Kim Jong-il Malware Discovered Roaming the Wild
From the that-didn’t-take-long department, the recent death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has taken its predicted path through social media and spawned malicious spam that takes advantage of exploits in PDF to infect computers with a Trojan. Researchers at TrendLabs discovered the spammed messages in their inboxes with subjects mentioning the death of Kim ...
Education by Osmosis, through fMRI Could You Know Kung-Fu?
As with the testimonial line from The Matrix, “I know Kung-Fu.” We have a notion from modern popular science fiction that some day humanity might be able to overcome the cumbersome notion of learning from books and experience and directly implant education into the brain via some as-to-be-known sort of technological osmosis. According to an ...
Angry Birds Maker Rovio Seeks Hong Kong 2013 IPO; Zynga Stock Continues to Drop
It’s been a year of social IPOs and it looks like 2013 will continue that trend with Rovio, the developer of the altogether famous Angry Birds. During an interview held with Reuters last week Peter Vesterbacka, marketing chief of Finnish company Rovio, explained that the company might seek their initial public offering in Asia, citing ...
Global Gaming Fueled by Cloud Distribution Grows 450% in 3 Years
The cloud-based global game-delivery company Pando Networks recently distributed a press-release containing a telling infographic about the growth of global gaming as seen through the eyes of their network. Some countries have seen faster growth into using their network to acquire games than others—for example over the past three years European downloads have risen by ...
Nielson Report Shows that Console Usage is Up 7% Over 2010, Streaming Video a Big Factor
A recently released Nielsen report shows that the viewership of streaming video on game consoles is on the rise. Not an unexpected outcome with how much Microsoft and Sony have been pushing themselves into the online streaming video market; but it’s still a bit early to tell who’s succeeding. “Streaming now represents a reported 14 ...