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AM News: Nokia Lumia Pureview Coming Soon? Anonymous Wants to Down Great Firewall of China, Intel Outs Studybook Tablet
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Two slides showing a Nokia concept phone with the Lumia and the Pureview brandings have surfaced on a Chinese website, it168.com. The current Pureview 808 handset - which is based on Symbian - has yet to go on sale, having been...
Anonymous Wants To Bring Down The Great Firewall Of China
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It seems Anonymous plans to expand from bringing down just a couple of website, at least when it comes to the Chinese government. One member of the hacking group claims the organisation is to launch further attacks in the future,...
Hundreds Of Chinese Websites Hacked By Anonymous
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Anonymous, the online hactivist group, has hacked and defaced hundreds of websites of the Chinese government and commercial sector. However, it seems that no central government websites were hacked. The group claimed to have...
AM News: Anonymous Leaks Tunisian Government Emails, Pinterest Third Most Popular Social Site in US, Galaxy S3 Release Poster
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Anonymous, the group of online activists and hackers, has struck once more against a government regime. This morning we heard news that the collective had hit the UK's home office website with a distributed denial-of-service...
Anonymous Leaks 2,700 Hacked Tunisian Government Emails
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Anonymous, the group of online activists and hackers, has struck once more against a government regime. This morning we heard news that the collective had hit the UK's home office website with a distributed denial-of-service...
Noon News: Anonymous Downs Home Office Website, Raspberry Pi Clears CE Quality Tests, HP Elitebook 8560W Mobile Workstation
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The rather oddly spelled Eadweard J Muybridge might not be a name you're familiar with. Born Edward James Muggeridge, he changed his first and last name several times, and he was famous in the field of photography and early...
Home Office Hit By Anonymous DDoS Attack
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Hackivist group Anonymous has struck again at another high profile government target, this time in the UK. At the weekend, the UK's Home Office website was downed by a distributed denial-of-service attack, apparently for several...
AM News: Google Project Glass Rivals, Facebook Security Loophole in Android & iOS App, Samsung Galaxy S3 Being Tested
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It emerged this week that Google is working on a pair of augmented reality glasses, which flash up messages, video and the like directly into the wearer's field of vision. The images of the futuristic specs Google released were...
Apple Releases Second Java Update To Fight Flashback Trojan
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Apple rolled out a new update in order to stop the versions of Flashback Trojan that reportedly plagued 600,000 Macs. Java for OS X 2012-002 is designed to patch the vulnerability exploited by the malware but according to...
Facebook Security Loophole Found On Android And iOS
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According to Gareth Wright, an app developer for iOS and Android, there is a security vulnerability that lurks on Facebook apps for both platforms. Users who prefer logging into Facebook on Android tablets or on iPhones or iPads...
LeNa Malware Can Take Over Your Android Device
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According to the mobile security company Lookout, an updated version of Android malware LeNa (Legacy Native) can control Android phones. LeNa has affected many Android devices in the past. Under the appearance of a legitimate...
AM News: iPhone 4S on Smaller US Carriers, Canonical Outs Metal-as-a-Service Provisioning Tool, 600K Macs Infected with Trojan
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Cisco has made a major new introduction on the router front, with three new Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers. The EA4500, EA3500 and EA2700 are all "app enabled", meaning they can run apps designed to swiftly add features or change...
600,000 Macs Are Infected With Trojans
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Dr. Web, a Russian company developing anti-virus software, announced on Wednesday that more than a half of million Macs from all over the world have been infected with a Trojan named Flashback. Later, on his Twitter account, Dr....
UK Hacker Jailed For Stealing Eight Million Personal Details
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Edward Pearson, a hacker from York, has been jailed for the theft of personal details of some 8 million UK citizens, including in some cases credit card numbers. Along with 2,700 bank cards, the 23-year-old hacker also bagged a...
Apple Releases Java For OS X Security Patch
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Apple has pushed out a security update for Java on OS X 10.6 and 10.7 (with support for previous versions being discontinued). The patch is aimed at defeating Flashback, a trojan horse which was first spotted in September of last...
