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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Apple has confirmed that it was not a breach of its iCloud system which led to iPhone and iPad users predominantly in Australia reporting that their devices had been remotely locked by a hacker demanding a ransom to release the devices again. If Apple is to be believed, it is likely the attacker is using credentials exposed in another breach (such as high profile ones like eBay and Target) but which use the same username/password combination as the victims' Apple ID.
60533803
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Multiple iPhone/iPad/Mac users in Australia are reporting their devices being remotely locked and a ransom demand being made to get them unlocked again. However unlike PC ransomware, the vector of attack here seems to be Apple's iCloud service with the attacker getting to a database of username/password credentials associated with the accounts. It is unclear if the database was one of Apple's or the hacker is simply using the fact that people reuse the same password for multiple accounts and is using data stolen from another source. Apple is yet to respond, but there has already been one report of the issue affecting a user in the UK.
60360417
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory will next month detail how, for the first time, they have created a data communication technology which can provide space dwellers with the connectivity we all enjoy here on Earth, enabling large data transfers and even high-definition video streaming.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Choosing between iOS and Android is a tough choice for many people as many want access to the bigger Apple app library but also want the bigger choice offered by Android hardware. Researchers at Columbia University have shown that the best of both worlds could soon be on offer, with their Cider system running native iOS apps on a Nexus 7 tablet. While the system is incomplete it does show it is possible.
59957307
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
According to the customer contract those signing up for a $240,000 flight on Virgin Galactic's spaceship the company will bring you "at least 50 miles" above sea level. The problem is that the internationally accepted boundary for outer space is 62 miles above sea level — known as the Karman Line. Virgin is trying to get around the issue by claiming it is using a definition of space used by Nasa — in the 1960s.
59854233
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Scientists in two Shanghai universities have created a unique method of integrating solar cells into fabric that could be used to develop lighter, more power-efficient wearable electronics.
59849499
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
The Heartbleed Bug cause widespread panic from internet users around the world worried their sensitive information was being targeted. While system administrators were warned to patch their systems, one month on and a security researcher has discovered that 300,000 servers remain vulnerable to the heartbleed flaw.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Apple is reportedly close to paying a record $3.2bn for Beats Electronics, the headphones company founded by Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine. But the deal is less to do with the oversized cans which dominate the headphone market and much more to do with Apple looking to jump on the music streaming bandwagon, with Beats Music having a ready-made deals with the industries biggest record labels.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Cryptolocker ransomware hit the headlines in 2013 as it spread around the world infecting hundreds of thousands of PCs. Not it appears as if it has been adapted for mobile, with one criminal gang advertising a version which will target Android smartphones and tablets.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Orbiting solar power stations beaming clean energy back to earth; orbiting space hotels; fleets of spacecraft mining near-earth asteroids. It may sound like science fiction but one Nasa scientist believe this is the only way we will save planet earth and eventually travel to the stars. "Before we go to the stars, we've got to be masters of our own solar system," Les Johnson who works at the Advanced Concepts Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center told IBTimes.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
According to the lead economist of CCP Games, developer of Eve Online, the total amount of ISK in the system at the moment is 600 trillion, which equates to about $18 million in real world money — and the economist believes we could learn a lot from how the economy works in the game.
59490355
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
The numbers don't lie. F-Secure has discovered 277 new families of mobile malware in the first quarter of 2013. 275 of them targeted Android with just one targeting iPhone and one targeting Symbian. Not alone that, the one iPhone malware only affects jailbroken devices. It seems cybercriminals are going after the money once again...
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
According to newly published research, more than 50% of people in the UK are willing to pay to secure their online privacy however the amount they are willing to pay is a paltry £2.50 per month, Rik Ferguson, from security firm Trend Micro who carried out the research, told IBTimes UK: "It's a sad state of affairs that we now think of online privacy as a luxury good. Users are clearly telling providers they will vote with their feet rather than pay excessively for privacy and there's the real possibility of an exodus from certain services if users feel their data is being unethically handled."
58959253
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
A Toshiba laptop from 1998 is not going to run Crysis very well, and you can forget about it mining bitcoin for you. But just because this was the laptop used by President Bill Clinton to send an email to Nasa astronaut John Glenn while in outer space, it seem some people think it's worth over $45,000...
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
James Dyson, the UK investor behind the bagless vacuum cleaner, has revealed his concept of a barge — called MV Recyclone — which would use cyclone technology to clean up the huge amount of plastic blighting the world's rivers and oceans.