Anonymous reveals 90k military email and password combos in the name of #Antisec
Black hat security group Anonymous has exposed 90,000 military email addresses stored on servers from consulting firm and U.S. government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The hacker group said the breach was done to expose the corruption of government and related corporate entities.
Booz Allen Hamilton deals with all branches of the armed services as well as the defense and intelligence communities of the U.S. Government. It claims to provide, among other things, "strategy and technology solutions that help deter 21st century threats and meet complex mission requirements."
Cyberduck 4.1: Tweaked for Windows, ready for Lion
There are so many ways of storing your data online these days that accessing it all can become rather a chore. FTP soon gave way to accessing storage via your web browser which, while convenient in terms of not needing another program, is quite restrictive.
Such problems fuelled the development of Cyberduck. Yes, it's an FTP client, but it's also capable of giving you quickly and easy access to a wide range of other online storage providers too via a single client, including Amazon S3, Google Docs and WebDAV. Version 4.1 has just been released, promising a raft of the under-the-hood improvements, new WebDAV implementation and a tweaked user interface in Windows.
Could Google+ reach 10M users today, 20M by the weekend?
Now Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg should worry. Google+ is scarcely two weeks old and invite-only but growing like a weed. Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen (not to be confused with Microsoft's cofounder of the same name) estimates the 10 million-user number based on a cunning surname analysis.
I wouldn't be surprised at the 10 million number. Over the weekend, I saw a sudden and stunning surge in people following me who aren't early-adopter techies. Many are friends who didn't receive invitations from me, by the way. Sorry guys.
Airfoil: When Apple AirTunes or AirPlay isn't enough
Rogue Amoeba Software LLC has announced updates to its Airfoil application for Windows and Mac. Airfoil allows users on Windows and Macs to wirelessly stream music to compatible devices on an Apple Airport Express network, including AirTunes-connected speakers and hi-fi systems, as well as iPhones, iPod touches, iPads and other computers running the complementary AirFoil Speakers software.
The updates, which are platform specific, include a redesigned user interface in Windows for greater ease of use, plus full support for third-party Airplay devices on Mac, and greater controls for those running the free AirFoil Speakers add-on to control playback of streaming media.
'Mobile malware is the new frontier of cybercrime'
That's the stunning statement made by Robert Siciliano, a security and identity theft consultant, blogging for McAfee today. The post's title is nearly as provocative: "McAfee Reports Most Malware Ever in Early 2011".
Siciliano writes based on the McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2011, which released on June 1 and has gotten modest coverage among bloggers and journalists.
Apple tops US smartphone rankings
There is nothing that riles my ire like data taken or given without context (or out of it). That's the case with new smartphone data released today by ComScore. The chart above is more or less self-explanatory. Well, at first glance it is.
"During the three months ending in May 2011, 76.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones", according to a ComScore Data Mine blog post. "Among smartphone owners, Apple accounted for 26.6 percent of devices". Research in Motion ranks second.
RIP: Palm 1992-2011
It's been a little more than a year since HP acquired struggling smartphone pioneer Palm, and now the Palm name is history.
HP on Monday announced it is reorganizing its HP Palm brand into a new group called the webOS global business unit, led by Stephen DeWitt, who replaces former Palm CEO and webOS leader Jon Rubenstein.
Twitter passes one million registered apps
Microblogging service Twitter said Monday that more than one million applications have now been registered, representing the work of over 750,000 developers. This is a marked increase from last year, when just 150,000 registered apps existed.
With such an explosive growth rate, this means a new app is registered with Twitter every 1.5 seconds.
Smartphones and tablets are only good for unimportant tasks, says survey
The graph I've embedded above comes from a survey conducted on behalf of virtualization software company Parallels, and it succinctly illustrates one of the main questions related to the value of mobile and embedded technology: When one machine duplicates the functionality of another, do you consolidate?
The survey, which polled a modest group of 210 individuals, shows a nearly perfect split between those who would consider consolidation and those who wouldn't (50.5% said they would, 49.5% said they would not.) It is a question of special value to a virtualization company like Parallels, and proof that device convergence is still a tough nut to crack. When one device gains the ability to do the job of another, users still aren't convinced they should drop the device that's been "replaced."
Microsoft sells 400 million licenses for Windows 7
Windows 7 continues to charge ahead as a successful operating system release for Microsoft. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed in a Monday keynote at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles that the number of licenses sold worldwide has now surpassed 400 million.
Microsoft's latest version of Windows already runs on a little over 27 percent of all worldwide computers, according to data from Net Applications. Even though Windows 7's share has nearly doubled in the past year, it still has not been able to unseat the market leading Windows XP, still running on over half (51 percent) of all PCs.
Google posts the best doodle in the world
Early this afternoon, I trucked over to the Google search page, saw the doodle above and wondered: "Who's birthday is it? Who is Google celebrating today?" Doodles are fairly common commemorating special days. It's my birthday. What a funny coincidence it seemed, but wasn't. The Google doodle is for me.
Have you seen a personalized doodle like this before for you? It's new to me, and I'm thinking it all has to do with Google+ and new user profiles associated with it. I've been logged into Google on other birthdays but never noticed the doodle in the past.
You can remove TDL4/ Popureb malware from Windows PCs
"Indestructible" rootkits, "fatal" trojans, "hellish" viruses -- malware has always been a great topic for generating scary headlines. There's generally no need to worry, though. Almost whatever the threat, if you can just wait for a while then a free (and often simpler) solution will turn up.
The latest variant of the Popureb Trojan, for instance, hides itself away in your Master Boot Record, and hooks a hard drive port driver in an attempt to protect itself from being overwritten. It's so deeply buried that Microsoft initially recommended reinstalling Windows if you were infected, but a few days later they changed its advice to point out that a little work with the Recovery console could get your PC back to normal. Or alternatively, a free Webroot tool can detect and remove the threat for you in just a couple of clicks.
Starting over with the Internet is cybersecurity Shangri-la
Many of the worst problems on the Internet are probably unsolvable, at least as a practical matter. One of the favorite models to imagine our way out of this ordeal is to start over with a new and more "secure" Internet. Sadly, this is an even less practical idea than fixing the one we have.
The latest to dare to imagine this dream is U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander who wants a ".secure" network for critical infrastructure: ".secure would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and would do away with users' Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Network operators in the financial sector, for example, would be authorized to scan account holders' traffic content for signs of trouble. The current Internet setup would remain intact for people who prefer to stay anonymous on the Web".
Still think iPad is the future of publishing? Philly papers offer cheap Android tablets to subscribers
The withering newspaper and magazine industries began to gravitate toward Apple's iPad as a possible anchor publishing outlet last year, but a pair of Philadelphia newspapers are taking a different approach and bundling cheap Android tablets with a subscription.
Last year, Conde Nast's Wired showed off an impressive iPad-optimized version of its magazine, and News Corp released The Daily, a subscription magazine designed from scratch for consumption on the iPad. These major ventures didn't simply re-format existent content for the iPad, but rather designed their content around the tablet itself.
Uh-oh, Kindle, Nook, the first Google e-reader is here
The first e-reader to be integrated with the Google eBooks platform will be the iriver Story HD, and it will be available across the United States on July 17, Google announced Monday.
Google eBooks launched last December and included a browser-based e-bookstore, and reader apps for Android and iOS as well as JavaScript-supportive Web browsers. Because Google utilized Adobe's e-book publishing platform, books purchased through Google's bookstore could be read on the long list of devices that support it.
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