Remember WikiLeaks? It’s still around, it’s still somewhat leaky, and it’s still very much loved by the amorphous hacker entity known as “Anonymous.” Anons and WikiLeaks both generally enjoy breaking down barriers of secrecy and scattering what they find into the public view, though they may tend to work with different styles. Besides exposing secrets, [...]
Dell on Friday launched the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet in China. This is the company’s first 10-inch tablet. It runs Android Honeycomb 3.1. The device has work and personal modes, with a firewall of sorts between them so there’s no leakage of information between the two. “What’s interesting to me is that Dell set [...]
Dell on Friday launched the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet in China. This is the company’s first 10-inch tablet. It runs Android Honeycomb 3.1. The device has work and personal modes, with a firewall of sorts between them so there’s no leakage of information between the two. “What’s interesting to me is that Dell set [...]
It appears that scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology proved recently that you can’t travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. That discovery, howled many popular publications, means time travel is impossible. “Impossible,” however, is a very powerful word. Has this research truly proven that traveling in time [...]
Twenty-nine U.S. universities are hoping that Gig U, a project that brings ultra-high-speed Internet access to campuses and the surrounding areas, can spur economic growth and research development to their communities. The initiative will arm universities and neighboring hubs with Internet speeds up to 1 Gbps, enough to download a full-length HD movie in seconds. [...]
A widely held view in the security community is that currently available security technology just can’t cope with the new types of attacks being launched on IT infrastructures. Some security vendors, in fact, have acknowledged their inability to fight advanced persistent threats and are calling for new approaches to fighting hackers.
Already, a couple of new [...]
Google+ may still be in its invitation-only early days, but with all the wild excitement and skyrocketing numbers of users, it’s awfully hard to tell. Quibbles about real-name policies notwithstanding, eager users from virtually every walk of life seem to be flocking to the new social network — even those of us who are perhaps [...]
I’m not sure that we can say Apple is the barometer for the consumer tech industry, but it’s been either eerily prescient or a powerful catalyst in the demise of certain technological habits. Apple ditched the old 3.5-inch floppy drive back in the ’90s and followed up by creating the iPod, which brought attention [...]
Mango, the largest update yet to Microsoft’s still-young Windows Phone 7 mobile OS, was released to manufacturers Tuesday in what the software company called an “important milestone” in its fight to gain some ground in the competitive smartphone marketplace. The update was first shown off in May and is being viewed as a dramatic upgrade [...]
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The recent spearphishing attacks on security firm RSA and on the International Monetary Fund are both suspected of being attacks by foreign powers to steal data that could be used in a cyberoffensive against the United States. In fact, the CIA website and the U.S. Senate were also breached by the hacking group LulzSec, and [...]