Android devs go face-to-face with Android overlords on new Google+ page

by ITN News - on Jan 31st 2012 - No Comments
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Google has just opened up a new channel for Android developers to learn about the platform, ask questions, and get updates. The +Android Developers page launched today to help devs stay abreast of changes in the rapidly iterating mobile operating system. “One of my favourite things about Google+ is the quality of conversation around...

Megaupload: User Data Has Two Weeks to Live

by ITN News - on Jan 31st 2012 - No Comments
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Former users of Megaupload have at least two more weeks to worry about what will happen to their data. Despite the government’s indications that the Megaupload user data could be deleted by Thursday, Megaupload’s data hosting services, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, have agreed to preserve users’ files for a minimum...

Anonymous: Ethical Hackers Or Cyber Criminals

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Once a threat confined to the margins of society, computer hackers have become a scourge of the modern age. Leading the charge is one group, Anonymous, launching online attacks on everything from scientology to credit card companies. As its fame has grown, Anonymous members have increasingly felt the real-world consequences of their...

S3rver.exe, Possibly the World’s Youngest Hacker

by ITN News - on Jan 31st 2012 - 3 Comments
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For those who don’t know, s3rver.exe is the hacker that not long ago breached Sony Pictures, a couple of UFC sites, and countless government websites worldwide. “I started hacking when I was 11. I heard about Anonymous and then I started DDOS’ing sites,” S3rver said. In the course of the two years during which he learned...

Cybersecurity arms race already on

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The digital arms race is already underway, according to many global experts and their opinions included in McAfee’s global cyberdefence report. At least 57 per cent of the study participants concurred with this point, while another 36 per cent went so far as to argue that cybersecurity is more important than missile defence. For reference,...

Contractors Could Wipe Megaupload User Data Thursday [Updated]

by ITN News - on Jan 30th 2012 - No Comments
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  Who knew the ‘D’ in D-Day stood for delete? Make that this Thursday then, when there’s a chance your Megaupload data — legal or no — could be obliterated, according to a letter filed last Friday by the feds. The conundrum’s simple enough: You’re one of the world’s largest file sharing sites, you’ve paid for...

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2012 Is A Great Time To Start PC Gaming And This Is Why

by ITN News - on Jan 30th 2012 - No Comments
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You’ve probably been hearing for a few years now that PC gaming is floating dead in the water, but I’ll be the first to tell you that it isn’t. As a matter of fact, it’s on the rise, and if trends continue, we’ll be seeing it as a dominant platform like it was earlier in the century. That’s a pretty...

“Malicious” Android apps are just aggresive advertising, says Lookout Mobile

by ITN News - on Jan 30th 2012 - No Comments
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Last week Symantec reported 13 potentially malware-carrying Android applications, that it said may make up a family of botnets. Mobile security firm Lookout Mobile, however, is now saying the apps are just an advertising network. “We disagree with the assessment that this is malware, although we do believe that the Apperhand SDK...

HP’s Jon Rubinstein Leaves The Company, webOS Dies A Little More

by ITN News - on Jan 30th 2012 - No Comments
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And just like that, he’s out. The former head of Palm is leaving HP, and with webOS all but buried, it’s no real surprise. HP’s acquisition of Palm proved disastrous, and after Jon Rubinstein was shifted into a product innovation role after the first major blow to webOS, we sort of figured he wouldn’t hang...

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