Topic: COMPUTER - on August 26, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
Teenage hacker unlocks the iPhone
A New Jersey teenager has unlocked the iPhone, opening the way to Apple's iconic mobile telephone being used by non-US networks.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 25, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
Chinesische Trojaner auf PCs im Kanzleramt
Zahlreiche Computer in Bundesministerien und im Bundeskanzleramt waren in den letzten Monaten mit Spionageprogrammen aus China infiziert. Nach Informationen des SPIEGEL versuchen Hacker aus Fernost weiterhin, Schadprogramme in Regierungs-PCs einzuschleusen.
Zahlreiche Computer in Bundesministerien sind mit Spionageprogrammen aus China infiziert. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Überprüfung durch den Verfassungsschutz und des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik. Neben dem Kanzleramt von Kanzlerin Angela Merkel, die sich von Sonntag an zum Staatsbesuch in China aufhält, sind das Wirtschaftsministerium, das Forschungsministerium und das Auswärtige Amt betroffen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 25, 2007 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Chinese Company Wants Seagate, U.S. Freaks
Seagate CEO William Watkins says an unnamed Chinese company wants to buy the storage giant and that as a result "The U.S. government is FREAKING OUT," according to a John Markoff piece in The New York Times. Chinese security agencies could use their access to disk drive controller chips to spy or to give themselves an advantage in a future cyber war.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 24, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
A $13 billion fantasy: latest music piracy study overstates effect of P2P
A new study from the Institute for Policy Innovation takes a different approach to quantifying the cost of music piracy. Instead of just focusing on what the lost sales cost the record labels, the new study measures the impact of piracy on the US economy. The total price tag? A cool $12.5 billion in lost output, if you trust the study's numbers.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 24, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
Underground Apps: Live TV Via P2P
Today, I wanted to see the financial news on CNN. But, instead of switching on my television, I fired up a tiny software application, chose the channel, and after a short buffering period, poof - there it was, live CNN broadcast in a window on my computer. Then I checked out the latest Hollywood blockbusters, decided I’m not in the mood for that sort of fun, so I’ve finished up my TV session with the second half of a soccer game on an European TV channel. And none of it cost me a dime.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 24, 2007 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
North American Leaders to Crack Down on Piracy
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) is a meeting held between the leaders of Canada, United States and Mexico. Generally speaking, it brings delegates from North America to discuss issues related to North America. The meeting concluded yesterday with new agreements and strategies. One of these strategies are related to counterfeiting and piracy.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 24, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 23, 2007 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
Content-Aware Image Sizing
This video by Dr. Ariel Shamir shows off presentation on content-aware image sizing. It demonstrates a software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 23, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
Man arrested for stealing broadband
A man who was spotted in the street using his laptop to access an unsecured wireless connection has been arrested.
The 39-year-old man was seen sitting on a wall outside a home in Chiswick, west London, by two community support officers.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 23, 2007 at 1:32:00 PM CEST
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
The minister of defense checked the Web page again — still nothing. He stared at the error message: For some reason, the site for Estonia's leading newspaper, the Postimees, wasn't responding. Jaak Aaviksoo attempted to pull up the sites of a couple of other papers. They were all down. The former director of the University of Tartu Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology d been the Estonian defense minister for only four weeks. He hadn't even changed the art on the walls.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 22, 2007 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
SuprNova: The Legend Returns Today
Suprnova has been down for some years due to some heavy pressure from the copyright lobby. The former owner sloncek donated suprnova to The Pirate Bay - and as you know, we like to kick ass and bow for noone!
We were going to keep this site a secret until we had finished it, but of course it leaked, that's how internet works. So now that the word is out, we're releasing it!
Please consider these first weeks/months as a beta test. Since we love all you guys and gals so much we decided to keep it an open beta test. That means, please behave, don't complaint to much and if you discover any weird bugs or problems, let us know.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 22, 2007 at 2:29:00 PM CEST
Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies
Joybubbles (the legal name of the former Joe Engressia since 1991), a blind genius with perfect pitch who accidentally found he could make free phone calls by whistling tones and went on to play a pivotal role in the 1970s subculture of “phone phreaks,” died on Aug. 8 in Minneapolis.
He was 58, though he had chosen in 1988 to remain 5 forever, and had the toys and teddy bears to prove it. The cause of death has not been determined, said Steven Gibb, a friend and the executor of the Joybubbles estate.
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