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George Hotz, the man accused of illegally hacking the PlayStation 3, has reportedly fled the country to South America, according to a filing by Sony. In the filing, posted to the Justia Web site, Sony Computer Entertainment of America...
Matching post #78,211 · by err0r · Mar 24, 2011 12:15 AM
On Monday, Adobe patched a critical vulnerability in its Flash, Reader, and Acrobat products. It recommends that all users upgrade immediately to the latest version. The out-of-cycle patch -- Adobe normally releases patches quarterly -...
Matching post #78,204 · by err0r · Mar 22, 2011 6:38 PM
Google (GOOG) today fixed the recent Adobe (ADBE) Flash Zero-day exploit in which a devious hacker could embed a malicious Flash file in an Excel document and if opened can compromise Windows-based computers. Microsoft says that Office 2...
Matching post #78,202 · by err0r · Mar 21, 2011 5:28 PM
A Mozilla executive last week said he was surprised that rival Microsoft has abandoned support for the 10-year-old Windows XP operating system in its new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser. IE9, which Microsoft launched a week ago today...
Matching post #78,201 · by err0r · Mar 21, 2011 5:24 PM
Is the Chinese government blocking access to Gmail to stop anti-government protests? Reports emerged today that Gmail in the country has been intermittently blocked or crippled - users can't send e-mails or messages are marked as unrea...
Matching post #78,200 · by err0r · Mar 21, 2011 5:22 PM
ICANN has approved the formation of the .XXX domain, the board of the organization said Friday. The board said it will allow its general counsel to allow execute a registry agreement with ICM, who will oversee the new domain. According...
Matching post #78,194 · by err0r · Mar 19, 2011 1:51 PM
Last week, Sony introduced PlayStation 3 firmware 3.60, which added cloud saving for PlayStation Plus members. This week, a hacker uploaded a video alleging that he had jailbroken the firmware, showing off a retail console with 3.60 with...
Matching post #78,192 · by err0r · Mar 18, 2011 5:52 PM
Since then, Google has issued five new "stable" versions of the browser, most recently Chrome 10 last week. Mozilla's move would be a major departure for the open-source company. Firefox 4, for example, was in development for over a ye...
Matching post #78,191 · by err0r · Mar 18, 2011 5:50 PM
Microsoft Corp. and federal law enforcement agents seized computer equipment from Internet hosting facilities across the U.S. in a sweeping legal attack designed to cripple the leading source of junk email on the Internet. Microsoft la...
Matching post #78,190 · by err0r · Mar 18, 2011 5:46 PM
Google on Tuesday updated Chrome, patching a flaw in the browser's copy of Flash Player. The move let Chrome beat rival browsers to the punch: Users of Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Safari and Opera won't receive a Flash update from...
Matching post #78,188 · by err0r · Mar 16, 2011 11:49 PM
Way back when, Mozilla used slogan 'Take back the web!" to promote Firefox. Internet Explorer 9 aims to do just that. Today at Microdoft's Windows Team Blog, Ryan Gavin pronounced, not 1, not 2, but 2.35 million IE9 downloads in 24 hours...
Matching post #78,187 · by err0r · Mar 16, 2011 11:44 PM
After successful attacks on Safari and Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, the second day of Pwn2Own saw the iPhone 4 and then the BlackBerry Torch 9800 successfully exploited. The annual security competition allows researchers to win any...
Matching post #78,178 · by err0r · Mar 14, 2011 5:15 PM
A vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer parses MHTML content—a method for combining multiple file types and HTML content into a single file—is now targeting users as part of a "drive-by" browser attack. It's called that due to the...
Matching post #78,175 · by err0r · Mar 13, 2011 6:55 PM
The "japan thing" is not a new development. Southern Japan is located in the "Ring of Fire" About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. Ten percent of the world's active v...
Matching post #78,172 · by err0r · Mar 12, 2011 12:51 PM
Welcome to a new episode of browser bashing. This time, it's Mozilla's turn again and Robert O'Callahan is taking a swing at Microsoft. O'Callahan, one of Firefox' lead developers, is very clear that he isn't "here to bash IE9." Howeve...
Matching post #78,171 · by err0r · Mar 12, 2011 12:28 PM
Hackers at the Pwn2Own 2011 hacker conference at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver broke through defenses in Apple's Safari 5.0.3 on fully patched Mac OS X 10.6.6 and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 SP1. Pwn2Own has become one of...
Matching post #78,165 · by err0r · Mar 11, 2011 12:26 AM
Google will take a back seat and let users do some of the website blocking for themselves with customizable block lists. Everyone knows by now that Google’s algorithm update had its faults – many of which the search giant has been work...
Matching post #78,164 · by err0r · Mar 11, 2011 12:23 AM
The problem with Adobe's Flash for most consumers, as anyone with an Apple iPhone/iPad is acutely aware of, is that it is not universally supported by all mobile platforms. Google's Android OS didn't get Flash until version 2.2 and there...
Matching post #78,151 · by err0r · Mar 8, 2011 3:01 PM
mIRC 7.19 has been released! (March 7 2011) This is a small update that addresses a number of important issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes to a number of features,...
Matching post #78,148 · by err0r · Mar 7, 2011 10:45 PM
Blog publishing platform WordPress was running normally on Sunday after suffering cyber attacks suspected to have originated in China. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg told TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog powered b...
Matching post #78,134 · by err0r · Mar 7, 2011 5:11 AM
Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has awarded Sony a subpoena that allows the company to obtain the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com, the personal website of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, for...
Matching post #78,132 · by err0r · Mar 7, 2011 5:10 AM
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Matching post #78,131 · by err0r · Mar 7, 2011 5:06 AM
Companies don't typically cheer the demise of their products, but in an effort to get Internet Explorer users to upgrade to more current versions of the browser, Microsoft has launched a death watch of sorts for IE6. The software giant...
Matching post #78,120 · by err0r · Mar 4, 2011 9:42 PM
Popular blog publishing platform WordPress.com suffered the most serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in its history yesterday. While it is so far unknown who launched the DDoS, the company says they believe it to have bee...
Matching post #78,119 · by err0r · Mar 4, 2011 1:28 PM
Verizon Wireless has finally landed that iPhone that it has wanted for so many years. The sales of the iPhone 4 on the Verizon network are a mystery so far, and some suspect that the sales haven't been that strong based in part on the la...
Matching post #78,114 · by err0r · Mar 2, 2011 4:54 PM
