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First Android phone already vulnerable to attacks

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

Less than a week after the release of Google’s T-Mobile G1 smart phone, security experts detected a serious security flaw in its Android operating system that leaves it wide open for hackers to launch drive-by attacks on users’ devices.The security vulnerability, detected by researchers at Baltimore, Maryland-based Independent Security Evaluators, follows last week’s release of [...]

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Twitter - new terrorists’ favourite tool?

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

The U.S. intelligence community is concerned that terrorists might use micro-blogging tool Twitter to coordinate attacks, according to a purported draft Army intelligence report posted on the Web. The report–present by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and posted to the Federation of American Scientists Web site–examines the possible ways terrorists could use mobile and [...]

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Dell launched new subnotebook: Inspiron Mini 12

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

On Sunday, the Dell Inspiron Mini 12, a larger version of the Mini 9, makes its debut—in Japan. Dell had reached an exclusive agreement with VIC Camera, Kojima, and SofMap—all Japanese retailers—to make the early announcement overseas. According to Dell, the Inspiron 12 will ship in the United States by mid-November. The Mini 12 is [...]

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Worm Gimmiv quickly spreading after MS patches

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

One day after Microsoft issued a rare emergency Windows security patch, the bad guys have a few new ways to take advantage of the bug. By Friday, security researchers had identified a new worm, called Gimmiv, which exploited the vulnerability, and a hacker had posted an early sample of code that could be used to [...]

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Comcast offers high speed internet: 50 Mbps

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

Comcast is offering new, higher internet access speeds to its customers in some of Comcast’s biggest markets. This is the first step in Comcast’s plan to offer the higher speeds to all of its customers over the next two years. The new Internet connection speeds have been designed to access large amounts of information more [...]

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eBay offers custom made Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

Konami and Sony’s limited edition  Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 may have been enough to satisfy a few fans of the game willing to pay a premium for their console of choice but, for sheer excess, it has nothing on this custom-made system built by the folks at Morpheon Mods, which is now up for [...]

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T-Mobile sold first cells with Google Android

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

Christopher Laddise of San Francisco on Tuesday became the very first private owner of a T-Mobile G1, unwrapping the first smartphone running Google’s open-source Android software platform to wild applause at a special pre-launch event in the City by the Bay.T-Mobile, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., will officially launch the G1 at its retail stores in [...]

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Hacker faces 10 years for taking down Scientology

Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by Indus

An 18-year-old New Jersey man will plead guilty to the January online attacks that took down the Church of Scientology’s Web site, federal prosecutors said Friday. Dmitriy Guzner of Verona, New Jersey, was part of an underground hacking group called Anonymous that has made the church a target of several attacks. He was charged Friday [...]

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