After suffering a massive network failure for more than a week, Sony’s PlayStation division had the distinct pleasure of revealing to users it had been hacked — deep and hard — by cybercriminals who may have been able to pilfer some very valuable information. Before this happened, PlayStation’s PR condition was already pretty frail on [...]
29Apr
Hackers are reportedly attempting to sell 2.2 million credit card numbers stolen from the PlayStation Network database. Sony earlier said customers’ personal data was encrypted; however, the company could not rule out the possibility that hackers might have accessed it. By Thursday, security researchers had seen talk on underground forums of hackers hoping to sell [...]
29Apr
Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of her own TV show, “Issues,” on HLN and author of a newly released book, Addict-Nation, An Intervention for America, well remembers the genesis of one of the topics in her book. She and her partner were about to become intimate, she cheerfully relates — until she got an overwhelming urge to [...]
Well, well, well, so Linux has turned 20 at last. While we were reading about the inroads Android is making into the mobile market and weeping over the news that Groklaw is about to pack its bags and move on, we began wondering: Just what would the world have been like if Linus Torvalds hadn’t [...]
One of the biggest news stories around the iPhone in a long time is the recent — for lack of a better term — LocationGate fiasco. As with most stories like this, fear and link bait rule the day. You also have, in this case, U.S. Senators smelling blood in the water and [...]
Nokia chief Stephen Elop said Wednesday that his company is in no hurry to get into the tablet market. In an interview on YLE TV in Nokia’s homeland, Finland, Elop observed that there were already more than 200 tablets on the market and only one was really doing well, the iPad, and he didn’t want [...]
The future of mobile healthcare apps is already here, and it readily conjures images of “Star Trek” and Dr. “Bones” McCoy’s medical tricorder. Take for example, a new app system developed by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital that detects cancer. The palm-size nuclear magnetic resonance device, which mimics the gigantic MRI machine, sits on a [...]
As the Apple iPhone personal tracking database brouhaha rolls on, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Apple isn’t exactly tracking iPhones — though there are many shades of gray — and that reactions to the idea or practice of tracking has a surprisingly wide range of feeling. Some seem to think that having their iPhones track [...]
The FBI has requested and received a preliminary injunction from a U.S. district judge to continuing issuing “stop” commands to the zombie machines infected with the Coreflood botnet. It is an essential step that is part of the agency’s dramatic takedown of the botnet’s command-and-control system earlier this month, an agent said in written testimony. [...]
It’s not easy going green. There are, however, software programs and online assessment tools that can measure a business’s carbon footprint and help make it smaller. Every technology in business uses energy and has a carbon footprint — from the lights in the ceiling to the data center they illuminate. “Green IT can mean anything [...]