May 3, 2011
Last November when the Kinect first launched, gamers were curious, yet a bit skeptical about it. Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and arguably the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator.
Since then the Kinect has become a bona fide hit…
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February 8, 2011
Sony is turning up the heat on the hacking community as they seek to eradicate the PS3 jailbreak from the Internet, reports Wired. Sony is now promising to sue anyone that posts or links to the code in question. To those ends, Sony is seeking to force …
Tags: dmca, geohot, hacking, law, legal, modding, News Worthy, ps3, Sony
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January 26, 2011
An odd message on Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page racked up over 1,800 likes and over 400 comments before the hacked post was removed, TechCrunch reports. Here’s what it said:
“Let the hacking begin: i facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, wh…
Tags: facebook, hacker, hacking, Internet, mark zuckerberg, News Worthy, online, Privacy, Security, Social Networking, Software
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January 18, 2011
You may remember early last summer when the brand new iPad 3G ended up being a bit of an embarrassment for AT&T thanks to a security exploit. Some industrious hackers managed to use a brute force attack to extract user email addresses and names. No…
Tags: 3G, Apple, fbi, hacking, iPad, law, News Worthy, Privacy, Security
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January 18, 2011
There’s no such reality show called “When Gamers Attack,” but if there was to be one, Frogster’s Runes of Magic game would take center stage.
Here’s the deal. A user who goes by the nick “augustus87″ is pretty pissed off with how the German outfit is r…
Tags: frogster, games, hacker, hacking, Home, News Worthy, runes of magic, Security, Software, Videogames
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December 20, 2010
Awake to the fact that malware authors are adept at gaining high search rankings for their malware-fraught sites, Google has been providing malware notifications in its search results for three years now. But what about legitimate sites compromised …
Tags: Google, hacking, Internet, malware, News Worthy, search, spam
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