E.T. phone home? A British hacker who has an obsession with unidentified flying objects seemed to think sci-fi movies aren’t enough so what did he do? He decided to break into 97 military and NASA computer systems to look for evidence about UFOs. Gary McKinnon will be tried in America and if convicted, he may [...]
Get ready to laugh your socks off! A mobile app for comedic video site Funny or Die will soon be available for your iPhones. To those who are unaware of this site, Funny or Die is website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions that features original and user generated comedy [...]
In the Black Hat security show, researches demonstrated on Thursday how a smartphone can be “forced” to visit a malicious URL or install an app without the owner’s knowledge. John Hering, chief executive of Flexilis which provides software that protect mobile phones from attact, said that the vulnerability affects phones that were misconfigured by the [...]
“The Clampi virus is pretty scary” Tim Wilson, editor of Dark Reading, a technology security news site, said of the fast-spreading computer virus. Clampi, targets on financial accounts that are universally used by businesses. It can download and execute additional malware on to the already infected computer. While other “banking Trojans” prey on consumers’ online [...]
After five launch attempts, NASA’s Endeavor finally blasted off into space (literally J) and is now coming home. The first attempt to touch down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is scheduled today at 1547 BST (1047 EDT) with the weather forecasted to be favorable for landing in Florida. The Endeavor crew of seven astronauts took [...]
Adobe just released a patch for a Flash Player problem that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Updates are available for most Flash installations on Windows, Mac and Linux computers. The critical vulnerabilities were identified to have affected a file that shipped with Flash Player 9.x and 10.x [...]
How do you get your app approved in the App Store? Or a better question would be, what do you do to make your app stay in the App Store? The answer would be uhm – who knows? Probably the Apple guys, that’s for sure. But for the app developer whose application was pulled out [...]
Who wouldn’t want to have more apps, even the “unauthorized” ones, on their iPhones? More options, more usability, more fun! And so far, doing this is still legal and Apple can’t do anything to stop you from doing it. The company however, is not taking this sitting down. They have been pressing federal agencies to [...]
Sci-fi movies have been featuring futuristic gadgets and innovations for as long as I can remember. Some have been far-fetched like showing robots housekeepers roaming around by the year 2005 (which by the way have already gone by four years ago) in Bicentennial Man or high-tech gadgets in numerous spy movies. There are however, already [...]
Not even available in the market, and its already hacked. Well, it comes not as a surprise when hackers have become more and more intelligent in breaking protections and deciphering codes. The final code for Windows 7 which was just released to manufacturers is now reportedly facing a security risk, according to variety of forums [...]
