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Posted by American Zombie
on the 10th January 2012 at 4:21am
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If you have a router and use WPS you may want to go into your routers GUI to disable WPS for now until your router manufacturer (if on the list) provides a firmware update.
A design flaw that exists in the WPS specification for the PIN authentication significantly reduces the time required to brute force the entire PIN because it allows an attacker to know when the first half of the 8 digit PIN is correct.
The lack of a proper lock out policy after a certain number of failed attempts to guess the PIN on some wireless routers makes this brute force attack that much more feasible.
More info and router manufactures affected are at the source.
Posted by fitz
on the 9th December 2011 at 7:47pm
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In a widely suspected announcement, HP officially announced they are going to set webOS free into the Open Source world.
HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.
HP plans to continue to be active in the development and support of webOS. By combining the innovative webOS platform with the development power of the open source community, there is the opportunity to significantly improve applications and web services for the next generation of devices.
Soon after this, in an interview, CEO Meg Whitman breathed new life into webOS devices by stating that HP is planning on developing new tablets based off the webOS platform.
Will HP be creating any new webOS hardware?
Meg: The answer to that is yes but what I can't tell you is whether that will be in 2012 or not. But we will use webOS in new hardware, but it's just going to take us a little longer to reorganize the team in a quite different direction than we've been taking it in the past.
Are we talking printers? Or tablets and phones?
Meg: In the near term what I would imagine — and this could change, in full disclosure — is I would think tablets, I do not believe we will be in the smartphone business again.
Posted by American Zombie
on the 27th November 2011 at 1:35am
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About the only spell checker worth using in the past for Internet Explorer was IESpell but now there is another much better solution.
With IESpell you could check spelling after you had finished your typing but Speckie will check spelling in real time as you are typing.
Posted by Electronic Punk
on the 30th August 2011 at 11:59pm
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Facebook have started paying out to hackers that find loopholes or exploits in, er, Facebook.
One security researcher has been rewarded with more than $7,000 for finding six serious bugs in the social networking site.
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The minimum amount paid for a bug is $500, said Mr Sullivan, up to a maximum of $5000 for the most serious loopholes. The maximum bounty has already been paid once, he said.
Many cyber criminals and vandals have targeted Facebook in many different ways to extract useful information from people, promote spam or fake goods.
More and more companies are offering cash incentives to third parties (ie the public) for finding exploits in their products. I guess it certainly beats waiting around for other people to do it for "the lulz" to huge embarrisment later on.
Posted by Electronic Punk
on the 30th August 2011 at 11:55pm
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Even though the product is abandoned and has been sold for a price so low that it has gone out of stock everywhere (or indeed perhaps because of it), HP have announced that they will be releasing an update for the HP Touchpad. A HP spokesperson confirmed the following to CNET:
HP TouchPad owners can look forward to an over-the-air update that will enhance the platform and add functionality and a growing applications catalog.
There are so many rumours floating around at the moment, that HP are going to do a one-eighty and keep on going with their WebOS tablet, can you imagine the pressure that would put on Apple if they didn't put the price back up? It is amazing that HP are continuing to manufacture these just to fufil the backorders. I am also curious to see how far along Android development goes on this thing, with builds of Cyanogenmod already working.
Posted by Electronic Punk
on the 30th August 2011 at 11:51pm
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Not strictly gaming related, but the Purchase Brothers have finally released the second episode of Escape From City 17 after the first part back in October of 2009.
Based in the Half-life universe, if fans couldn't immediately recognise the City 17 reference, the short features both live action as well as ingame characters and creatures.
A story about the connection that grows between two people during the battle for city 17. Made in the same gritty guerrilla style as the original, it was made on a $250 budget, previously owned/donated software, time, and an HVX200 camera.
Posted by Electronic Punk
on the 30th August 2011 at 11:13pm
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It is once again time for OSNN to provide one of its lucky members the opportunity to recieve a gift card good for one 32GB Ipad 2, which I hear are rather popular. Clearly you want to know why we should do this and are not currently skipping down to the indented text below, so I shall spare your nerves and tell you straight away.
Vonage have teamed up with 75 sites, including OSNN, to promote their new Apple Appstore Time to Call that will allow you to easily and cheaply make international calls directly from your device over 3G (where supported by the application) or over Wifi. The Time to Call application will be making its way to other platforms soon enough, but for now Apple users can find it here - they will even give you 15 minutes worth of international calls for downloading the free application so be sure to give it a look. You can see it in action below.
I will be posting the thoughts of a work colleague later who was able to go over the features of the application, as I don't have any Apple products and I am anxiously awaiting the Android version, which I am told in the works so look out for that later. Be sure to keep an eye on this post for that. Here are some some social links if you want to help Vonage shape this application as they have been and will be very open to feedback:
The competition is simple and open to the entire world, with the exception of myself, as far as I know (the winner will recieve the prize in the form of a gift card for their local/national Apple store), so here is what you need to do.
The competition has a slight social network feel to it this time around:
The Competition is now closed.
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The winner will need to give me details such as email address, real name and address and these will be treated with the utmost respect and only given to Ivy Worldwide so your prize can be forwarded to you.
The rules of the competition may change for clarification as it continues and I will do my best to make that clear should any changes affect the running or format of the promotion.
The competition will run for the next four days ending on the 3rd September (in some time zone or other) and is limited to one entry per IP address/household and I will select the winner that meets all of the above criteria.
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