Sony is fed up with Play Station hackers and is making a big move to thwart those hackers. From the PlayStation Blog Notice: Unauthorized circumvention devices for the PlayStation 3 system have been recently released by hackers. These devices permit the use of unauthorized or pirated software. Use of such devices or software violates the [...]

KaKaRoToKS a well known hacker has released the tools needed to unlocked the latest firmware for the PlayStation 3 game console, less than 24 hours after Sony released it in a desperate attempt to stuff the jail breaking genie back in the bottle. This was less then 24 hours after the release. What the tools [...]

Researchers used a program called TaintDroid to test some popular free Android applications selected at random from the Android market and found that half were sending private information to advertising servers, including the user’s location and phone number. In some cases, they found that applications were relaying GPS coordinates to remote advertising network servers as [...]

Is big brother coming or already here? Corner surveillance cameras are proliferating and red-light and speed cameras are increasingly replacing the old fashioned traffic cop. So what you say? In some Dutch cities, the surveillance systems also include powerful microphones that can listen in on conversations as far as 100 feet away. Don´t forget those [...]

Spam here spam there, spammers are everywhere. Facebook has closed a hole that let those dastardly Spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to friends, the company said on Tuesday. Clicking on the link to one of the applications that were taking advantage of the bug would allow the auto-posting to happen, Facebook [...]

Net Neutrality Equals Free Speech! Major corporations are about to launch an all-out attack on net neutrality. The lobbyists are circling Congress now. Giving Verizon, Time Warner or Google the right to slow the Internet traffic they choose, maybe deliver your e-mail tomorrow instead of today, is not a good idea. I have 150 channels [...]

Up until a few days ago, the 64-bit operating system was thought to be immune to rootkit infections… up until a few days ago. A famous rootkit, notorious for its advanced techniques and stealth features has been on the loose for some time now, infecting 32-bit operating systems right and left. Well, it was found [...]

ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access known nasty websites, sites that will download malicious files to your computer. Even better, ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access nasty websites that you may not even know your computer is trying to access—and it prevents those nasty little programs from phoning home. There is [...]

Flash cookies are way of tracing your movement and storing a lot more information about you than with normal cookies. One major disadvantage of flash cookies is that you can´t locate them in the normal places you usually look. They are not shown in the list of cookies that you can see when you take [...]

According to NASA Robonaut 2 (R2) will soon be headed to the space station. Robonaut 2 is a state of the art highly dexterous anthropomorphic robot. Like its predecessor Robonaut 1 (R1), R2 is capable of handling a wide range of EVA tools and interfaces, but R2 is a significant advancement over its predecessor. R2 [...]

In one case only 367 out of more than 2,000 victims disputed the charge with either their banks or scammers. Payments in this mid-April campaign were made to either Browsing Solutions, Moscow, or EBD-Software.com. A second campaign pulled in 1,600 marks, only one in 10 of whom challenged charges says security blogger Brian Kreb. Worthless [...]

According to a paper published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics last month most educational websites in the U.S. are using Flash applications that fail to adequately secure these pages from hacking. This leaves these websites ripe for malicious and criminal activity. A team used SwfScan to scan 250 educational websites. [...]

Thoughts on Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version 1.46 At around 5½ Megs it is definitely on the low end in size of all the malware programs except for cloud based Prevx. There are 2 versions of Malwarebytes Anti-malware or MBAM as fans like to refer to it. There is the free version that you have to run [...]

Sony is saying bye bye to the 3.5 inch floppy disk. The last manufacturer of the floppy disk is stopping production in Japan in 2011. Most other floppy disk manufacturers had long since pulled out of the market, and Sony itself has already ceased sales to most of its overseas markets. The writing has been [...]

If you use Google Chrome you are familiar with the new tab page which shows thumbs of your recent page visits. Then as extensions became available for the regular releases instead of just on the Dev. channel here comes Speed Dial which has been available for Firefox for quite sometime now. Speed Dial for Chrome [...]

McAfee servers today pushed out a regular update (DAT 5958) that falsely identified the Windows XP file svchost.exe as a being infected with the virus Wecorl.a. This huge pain in the butt effected Enterprise customers. The result was after the update was applied tens of thousands computers in effect crashed. To make matters worse trying [...]