Comment Re:Oh for the love of... EDITORS, please EDIT! (Score -1) 266
As far as i can tell, the editor only adjusted the title from what i submitted.
Sorry if my failure to grammar correctly offended you.
Submission + - iCloud social engineering allowed resetting of gizmodo editors devices. (forbes.com)
Robadob writes: Yesterday a hacker gained access to Mat Honans (An editor at gizmodo) apple iCloud account allowing him to reset his iPhone, iPad and Macbook. He was also able to gain access to google and twitter accounts by sending password recovery emails.
At the time this was believed to be down to a brute force attack, however today it has come out that the hacker used social engineering to convince apple customer support to allow him to bypass the security questions on the account.
At the time this was believed to be down to a brute force attack, however today it has come out that the hacker used social engineering to convince apple customer support to allow him to bypass the security questions on the account.
Comment Re:Good Luck (Score 2) 123
Only way to play games without them needing to be updated is by running in offline mode, but the game must be 100% upto date when you log into offline mode the first time else it will refuse to run as far as i know.
Comment Re:TFA != TFS (Score 2) 880
BBC journalists managed to do the same thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18996377
Comment Windows 8 Metro (Score 1) 77
Is it me, or does the image from the article look alot like windows 8 metro (or maybe windows phone 7, but i haven't seen much of that)?
Comment Retail Scenario (Score 1) 380
Similarly to all the above ban account, remove keyboard stories.
From working weekends at a highstreet clothes store when employees were leaving it is company policy that the employees weren't allowed to use tills for their last day/week. Although given the recent recession and constant staff shortages this is now usually seen as impractical and ignored by the managers supposed to implement it (They also never seemed to actually remove the till accounts of ex-employees within due time).
Submission + - Dozens of U.S. Companies Face Bribery Probes (cnn.com)
bonch writes: Wal-mart, Deere, Hewlett-Packard, Las Vegas Sands, Qualcom and others are under investigation for violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Wal-mart is suspected of bribing Mexican officials to quickly obtain store permits, while former employees of HP are being investigated for alleged bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion to land a Russian IT contract for a former German subsidiary. Even U.S. movie studies are under investigation for using bribes to influence the Chinese entertainment industry. In total, at least 81 public companies are being probed by the SEC for FCPA violations.
Submission + - Looting Leads Archaeologists to Oldest Known Mayan Calendar (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: A team of American researchers has discovered a small trove of ancient Maya texts in a surprising place. In a paper published online today in Science, researchers report finding Maya astronomical tables and other texts painted and incised on the walls of a 1200-year-old residential building at the site of Xultún in Guatemala. The newly discovered astronomical tables are at least 500 years older than those preserved in the Maya codices, giving researchers a new glimpse of science at the height of the Maya civilization. "I think we are all astonished by this find," says Stephen Houston, an archaeologist at Brown University who was not part of the team.
Submission + - DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Warnings (arstechnica.com)
bonch writes: DVDs and Blu-Rays will begin displaying two unskippable anti-piracy screens, each 10 seconds long, shown back-to-back. Six studios have agreed to begin using the new notices. Of course, pirated versions won't contain these 20-second notices; however, an ICE spokesman says the intent isn't to deter piracy but to educate the public.
Submission + - Heat Trickery Paves Way for Thermal Computers (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Heat is the great enemy of modern electronics—it can spawn errors and fry components. But now scientists have turned heat to their advantage by creating devices that run on currents of heat instead of electricity. The advance could lead to thermal computers that run off of body heat or other waste heat from our surroundings.
Submission + - Dish Network Announces Prime Time TV with No Ads
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Forbes reports that Dish Network has announced a new feature called called Auto Hop for its satellite TV subscribers that will let you automatically skip all commercials for prime time television from the four major broadcast networks when you watch the day after the programs are first aired. “Viewers love to skip commercials,” says Vivek Khemka, vice president of DISH Product Management. “With the Auto Hop capability of the Hopper, watching your favorite shows commercial-free is easier than ever before." Craig Moffett says that its going to be hard for Dish to maintain good relationships with its programming affiliates when they start offering a feature intended to cut out the bulk of the affiliates’ revenues and adds that whether the auto-skip feature can withstand legal challenge remains to be seen. “Given the already long list of industry-unfriendly features promoted by Dish, one wonders if Auto Hop will be the final straw that provokes legal action from the broadcast networks,” says Moffett. "We suspect Auto Hop probably uses some sort of bookmarking insertion based on automated recognition of commercial inserts (called ‘fingerprinting’), which if true could certainly be argued to be a manipulation of the content stream by the distributor.”"
Submission + - File Sharing Coming To All Facebook Groups 1
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook is planning to bring file sharing to all Facebook Groups, allowing members to send files to each other. There are exceptions to what files you can upload: music files and executable files are not allowed. Facebook will be depending on its users to report illegally shared content on the site.
Comment Re:UK (Score 2, Informative) 440
From what i remember a small group of guys were doing urbex in the unused london undeground tunnels around the time of something big happening in London. They got caught and under the guise of terrorism or something (due to the event) they got banned from communicating with each other for a decade or something.
(I'm not the guy who you replied to)
Comment Re:for now.. (Score 1) 101
Or just a touch screen effect where the mouse instantly moves to the target rather than travelling between.
Comment Re:good defesne (Score 1) 197
Recently a friends web-dev company was hit with a ddos over the course of a weekend to multiple sites across their hosting. Turns out that the ddos attack was actually testing for a point of php injection (or so they think), by the 3rd day the ddos had stopped. However all index.php, footer.php, header.php and some other common named files across many directories contained malicious code which rewrote this malicious code every time one of them was ran.
Sure his above statement may not be totally correct, however ddos can equal a compromise (not that a 'secure connection' would stop php injection afaik).
