Oct
1
2008
Aug
25
2008
New iPod Nano
Diggs Kevin Rose’s new rumor about the iPod Nano:
- Revamp of entire iPod line.
- Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see pic below).
- iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone.
- iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
- iTunes 8.0 (“it’s a big update w/new features”).
- All of this coming in the next 2-3 weeks.
Jul
16
2008
OH! *#% flash drive
Have you ever noticed that most all of the USB drives around look the same? Flash drives tend to be about the same size and being the same as others is a big problem with many computer users. Just look at all the Mac heads if you need proof of the need to be different. If you want to mess with a few people and get a flash drive that looks different at the same time Fred & Friends has the storage device.
The little gizmo is called Hacked! The OH!*#% Flash Drive. It looks like a normal USB cable that has been cut and frayed, but has 2GB of storage inside. To those around you they will either think you had something stolen from your computer or walked off while your printer was plugged in and ripped the cable in half, sort of like grandma did with the gas pump that time. Put one of these drives and the DIY keyboard key flash drives in your machine and you will get some weird looks.
Jul
15
2008
UPS – VIRUS WARNING!!
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| Attention Virus Warning We have become aware there is a fraudulent e-mail being sent that says it is coming from UPS and leads the reader to believe that a UPS shipment could not be delivered. The reader is advised to open an attachment reportedly containing a waybill for the shipment to be picked up. This e-mail attachment contains a virus. We recommend that you do not open the attachment, but delete the e-mail immediately. UPS may send official notification messages on occasion, but they rarely include attachments. If you receive a notification message that includes an attachment and are in doubt about its authenticity, please contact customerservice@ups.com. Please note that UPS takes its customer relationships very seriously, but cannot take responsibility for the unauthorized actions of third parties. Thank you for your attention. © 2008 United Parcel Service of America, Inc. UPS, the UPS brandmark, and the color brown are
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Jun
17
2008
Firefox 3
May
30
2008
Comcast gets hacked!!
Computer hackers took over Comcast’s Web site around 11:30 last night an example of the kind of good old-fashioned cyber vandalism that seems to be becoming a rarity. In the Web’s earlier years, most hackers sought mainly notoriety, which they usually attained by publicly defacing popular Web sites. But these days, hackers are increasingly motivated by financial gain. They’ll launch attacks to steal information like customer-account records that they can sell on the black market, and they take care to cover their tracks.
So it was a bit of a throwback when people who typed in Comcast.net were directed to a site reading: KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven. (A rough tech-jive-to-English translation: These two hackers can’t be stopped by Comcast, and that they want to acknowledge the friendship and inspiration they received from several other hackers.)
Naturally, the old-school attack has stirred up modern-day worry: People who access Comcast email accounts over the Internet weren’t able to access their accounts for several hours some still aren’t able to giving rise to fears that the hacker may have made off with their personal information as well.
That doesn’t appear to be the case here. The hacker didn’t access Comcast’s internal systems but rather a record maintained by Network Solutions, the company that registered Comcast’s Web site. By changing the record, the hackers were able to redirect people who typed in Comcast.net to a different address. A Network Solutions spokeswoman tells us that whoever changed the record probably obtained Comcast’s login credentials Network Solutions is still investigating and that her company was working with Comcast to resolve the situation. (Here’s a copy of the edited record. Incidentally, why is it that no one has invented an online registration form that can spot obviously made up addresses like 123 Fake St.? The hackers used a much dirtier fake address.)
It’s unclear how the hackers obtained the information needed to access Comcast’s record. But it looks like that’s the extent of what they stole. We have no evidence that any customer account information or data has been lost or compromised, a Comcast spokeswoman tells the Business Technology Blog. The company is working with law enforcement to find the culprits. And they may be on the right track: The Website for Kryogenics, the group of hackers that claimed responsibility, is currently unavailable.
-Ben Worthen
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