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Anaheim Police caught using DRT Cell Simulators to listen in on calls
Posted on Friday, 29 January 2016
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Law Enforcement surveillance is a necessary thing. It really is, but what is not necessary is when the agencies in question decide to get lazy or feel their powers extend to a larger group of people than their intended targets.…
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HSBC's DDoS raises questions on how companies treat these events.
Posted on Friday, 29 January 2016
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One cool thing about working in IT is that things are very predictable. You generally know how a system or application will react if you do this or that to it. This is how people find and use exploits in…
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TOR releases version 5.5 of the TOR Browser Bundle; bug fixes galore
Posted on Friday, 29 January 2016
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Tor has pushed out a new version of its privacy enhancing Tor Browser Bundle. We are up to 5.5 now and, according to the Tor Project it is a full stable release. The update fixes a laundry list of bugs…
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Oracle says they will kill off the Java Browser Plug-In... sometime in the future
Posted on Thursday, 28 January 2016
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It seems that the stars might finally align to remove one of the largest security holes in the history of… well history itself. Oracle is announcing that it is finally getting rid of the Java Browser Plug-in… sometime. According to…
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AMD earnings call indicates a rough 2016 ahead
Posted on Wednesday, 27 January 2016
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AMD as a corporate entity is facing some rough times. As of their last earnings call we saw that they are still losing money and really do not have a product ready to combat this. The Rage Fury line of…
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AMD talks up VR and the R9 Fury X dual-GPU card at VRLA
Posted on Monday, 25 January 2016
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AMD says it’s a VR thing now. Well ok, not really, but AMD is leveraging the increased memory bandwidth in their high-end R9 Fury cards to push both 4k and VR. They showed off the R9 Fury X dual-GPU reference…
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The Brewie auotmated brewing machine is a standout connected device for 2016
Posted on Saturday, 23 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
2016 is going to be a year where the connected device really explodes. We thought that IoT (Internet of Things) was bad in 2015, well that is just peanuts compared to what we are going to see in 2016. Everything…
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California Lawmakers push to ban the sale of encrypted smartphones
Posted on Friday, 22 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
You would think that in 2016 the people in power would either understand technology, or would have been replaced by someone that does. Sadly, this is not the case in… well just about every place there is an elected official.…
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AMD is delaying the launch of Zen until the end of 2016
Posted on Friday, 22 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
AMD is delaying the launch of their new Zen based CPUs until the end of 2016. The news comes on the heels of a rather subdued, if optimistic, earnings report in which Lisa Su, AMD CEO, focused on AMD’s commitment…
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CES 2016 sees connected Sex Toys on display in Sin City
Posted on Tuesday, 05 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
CES 2016 has not really started yet, but there are already multiple member of the press on the ground and the vendors are arriving in droves. Along with these arrivals are the oppress releases and news updates. Our in boxes…
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Hive-CM8 Screener Dump goes offline...
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Remember the Hive-CM8 group we told you about the other day? Well it seems that they have pulled their dump servers down. The reason is not clear, but it could be related to information that has gotten out to the…
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Firefall Developer Red5 Misses Holiday Payroll
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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You know things are bad when you cannot afford to pay employees, but to miss payroll over the holidays seems just that much worse. However, that is what has happened to Red5 the developers behind Firefall. As is usually the…
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191 Million US Voter Records out on the open web
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Sean Kalinich
You have to love how easy it is to find information out in the wilds of the internet. In the last couple of weeks a number of cloud-databases have been found to be leaking data to the interment due to…
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Is seven seconds worth having your data stolen, some retailers think it is
Posted on Monday, 28 December 2015
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Sean Kalinich
There is a report that over the holidays several retailers disabled the EMV (Chip and Pin) functionality of their card readers. The reason for this? They did not want to deal with the extra time it takes for a transaction.…
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Screener Season Kicks off with a Bang thanks to the Hive-CM8
Posted on Monday, 28 December 2015
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As 2015 comes to a close the advanced copies of movies are in transit to different groups and agencies. Many of these are for awards or accolades of some sort and almost without exception, copies of these (called screeners) end…
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Things just got interesting in the NVIDIA V Samsung Patent Battle
Posted on Monday, 28 December 2015
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Sean Kalinich
Remember that little patent squabble that NVIDIA and Samsung got into last year? Well some things have happened and they are not all that good for NVIDIA. If you have already forgotten about this incident (we do not blame you)…
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