Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing

Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing


Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT

Developers could be seriously out of pocket

A Russian hacker claims to have found a way to crack the in-app purchasing mechanism used in iOS so that users can get free content in a variety of applications.…

Apple rejoins EPEAT green tech cert program

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT

Says the standards weren't strict enough for it

Mere days after the City of San Francisco announced that it would ban departmental purchases of Apple products over environmental concerns, Cupertino has reversed its decision to withdraw from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) green standards program.…

Microsoft to announce new Office version on Monday

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Promises 'most transformational' release ever

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is widely expected to announce details of the next version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite on Monday USA Today reports, giving the public its first glimpse of a product that has so far remained shrouded in secrecy.…

Nasuni takes aim to kill off your ROBOadmin

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:13 AM PDT

Dead or alive, you're coming into the cloud with me

Nasuni has fulfilled its promise to add unified storage to its existing NAS cloud storage product. The tech is managed from a central site and branch offices no longer need an admin.…

US county named 'area of outstanding natural stupidity'

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:08 AM PDT

Vulture Central honours trigger-happy Kitsap

We recently promised to name Washington's Kitsap County 'an area of outstanding natural stupidity' (AOONS) if it could reach a critical mass of firearms-related idiocy.…

<i>Reg</i> hack bumps into <i>Cockfighter</i>

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:32 AM PDT

Surprise encounter in Spanish petrol station

It's Friday, so we need no excuse to bring you the slightly strange tale of how this hack unexpectedly bumped into Cockfighter in a Spanish petrol station.…

Lenovo: Hey just relax, Gartner – we can flog this stuff

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:01 AM PDT

'We won't repeat Acer's 2011 mistakes'

Lenovo needs to keep a close eye on inventory levels in the channel or risk heading down the same road to ruin that destroyed Acer's 2011, temporarily derailing its plans to become top dog in the PC arena.…

NVIDIA Developer Zone, user forums plundered in hack attack

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:36 AM PDT

Yarr! These passwords be salty but the rest be plain

Graphics processor biz NVIDIA has contacted users of its discussion forums and Developer Zone to warn that its servers have been hacked.…

Computer-hack probe cops cuff suspect in Cardiff

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:03 AM PDT

Sixth arrest under Operation Tuleta

Scotland Yard officers investigating the hacking of computers have arrested a 55-year-old man in Cardiff.…

Metro, that ribbon, shared mailboxes: Has Microsoft lost the plot?

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:28 AM PDT

More money for the same functionality

Sysadmin blog  In a previous piece on Office 365, I discussed how difficult it was to enable public folders. The reality is that Office 365 doesn't support public folders in the traditional sense. Instead, to achieve a similar functionality to the most common use for public folders – a storage point for group emails – Microsoft have offered "shared mailboxes".…

Small ISPs to Steelie Neelie: 'You've turned your back on us'

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:03 AM PDT

Euro commish changes tune over telco copper price spanking

Brussels' vice-president Neelie 'Steelie' Kroes has confirmed that telco incumbents in Europe will not be reprimanded for using copper pricing as a barrier to rolling out fibre networks.…

Fake sarnie shop's big fake Likes leave Facebook looking flaky

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Lies, damn Likes and statistics

A fake business set up on Facebook by the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones received thousands of fake endorsements – and Facebook doesn't seem to care.…

Oracle UK boss ousted to channel after 'sales slump'

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:23 AM PDT

Callaghan job swap amid claims of missed targets

Oracle UK and Ireland boss Dave Callaghan has been switched out of his role amid claims that the Blighty wing missed its sales target by about ten per cent.…

Ex-EMC admin bod 'embezzled $220k on limos, hols, surgery'

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:11 AM PDT

HQ worker charged over expenses claims

An EMC Hopkinton HQ admin assistant has been charged with stealing $220,000 from the storage and virtualisation vendor, the District Attorney for the Middlesex District of Massachusetts has confirmed. She denies any wrongdoing.…

Oiling the big wheels that keep the Paralympics moving

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:42 AM PDT

Bladerunner techs and wheelchair wizards gear up

The Olympic Games: just saying it conjures up images of top athletes straining for the finishing line, the crowd roaring during the 100 metres final, the heartbreak of a relay team dropping their baton, the sudden spurt in public expertise on sports such as shooting or three-day eventing as the medal tally highlights their national importance.…

Native Americans arrived to find natives already there, fossil poo shows

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:23 AM PDT

Ancient darts also found in possible prehistoric pub

The ancient people who have long been thought to be the first humans to colonise North America were actually johnny-come-latelies, according to scientists who have comprehesively analysed the ancient fossilised poo of their predecessor Americans.…

Tablets, copycats and Weird Al Yankovic

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:10 AM PDT

Samsung does a Ratner by proxy

Something for the weekend, Sir?  "They are not as cool." With these five words, Judge Colin Birss became Samsung's friend and tormentor in one. He had just found in the company's favour in its defence against Apple but ruined the moment for Samsung by hinting that the Galaxy Tab was, well, a bit crap compared to an iPad.…

O2 outage outrage blamed on new Ericsson database

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT

Single point of access became single point of failure

O2 has fixed its poorly mobile network, so now everyone can start asking what went wrong and what the company is going to do about it.…

Google boss Larry Page debugged, voice still not fixed

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:43 AM PDT

Softly spoken super-nerd now EVEN QUIETER

Google's CEO Larry Page is back at work after being laid low for a few weeks by an undisclosed illness or bug that caused him to lose his voice.…

Google makes money on Nexus 7... just

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:34 AM PDT

Cash for Flash

Google will not, it seems, be selling its low-cost Nexus 7 Android tablet at a loss, but it's making less money out of the hardware than Amazon is with the Kindle Fire.…

Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is RUBBISH for enterprise

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:22 AM PDT

Redmond's shortcomings could become assets in the post-PC era

Open ... and Shut  Apple has given us much with its pleasing-on-the-eye iPad. But what it hasn't given us is a serious replacement for the lowly laptop or desktop. As much as magazines like MacWorld may hype it as "The New Business Machine", the reality is that the iPad is only enterprise-ready in iFantasyLand.…

How to fix the broken internet economy: START HERE

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:06 AM PDT

Tech and copyright – it's time to work together

Special report  How can we begin to unpick the tangled mess that the technology and creative industries have created?…

'O2 customers could try switching their phones off and on again'

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:42 AM PDT

Plus: MacBook Pros leak hazardous goo all over the place

Quotw  This was the week when O2's network went titsup, leaving thousands of its users and GiffGaff mobile customers without the ability to make calls, write emoticon-laden texts or use 3G. Yes, that's right, they were CUT OFF FROM THE INTERNET. So, they were understandably peeved.…

Another Microsoft Windows Phone exec legs it to Amazon

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:21 AM PDT

Is a Kindle-like phone in the works?

Another Microsoft Windows Phone executive has jumped ship for Amazon.…

UK's web super-snoop powers could be extended to councils

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT

'We don't know what we don't know yet'

The UK Border Agency (UKBA), local councils and other bodies have until the end of next week to justify their right to access citizens' communications records.…

Hams: We're good in a disaster – UK Radio Society boss

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:37 AM PDT

Bearded radio fans also NASA's go-to guys for controlling Mars rovers

They look unassuming, but these quiet types murmuring strings of numbers and letters into their transceivers are manning back-up comms for the world, the communication system most likely to survive an apocalyptic event.…

Phishers use less strident subject lines to deliver new cunning attacks

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:22 AM PDT

'SECURITY ALERT' wasn't: 'Statement available' is

The use of exploit kits is allowing phishing fraudsters to develop scams that only rely on tricking prospective marks into clicking a link, rather than submitting all their details to a bogus website.…

London's Lambeth council vows: We'll share ALL the data we have

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Not yours of course...

Lambeth council has announced plans to publish all the information it holds online for residents to use.…

RIM boss accuses China of IP theft risk

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:31 AM PDT

We're steering clear of PRC, says Heins

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has reignited the debate over whether China is a safe place to do business, after claiming this week that the BlackBerry-maker does not have any manufacturing bases in the country due to security concerns.…

Apple, Google and Amazon sneakier than BANKERS and OIL FIRMS

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:28 AM PDT

Transparency survey fail for web stars

Internet superstars score far lower than banks or oil companies on a measure of corporate governance released this week by an NGO funded by the UK.…

Gambling site's 'no strings attached' offer had strings attached

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:03 AM PDT

888.com's 'free bet' ad was misleading – ASA

The UK's advertising watchdog has banned an online betting advert for free bets because the company behind it did not make clear that users needed to accumulate certain winnings before the money could be withdrawn.…

Sigma SD1 Merill 46Mp DSLR

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Cut-price, hi-res hot shot

Review  The Sigma SD1 might not be a household name but some of you will certainly be familiar with it. Launched at Photokina in 2010, the SD1 was the first and only DSLR to show off a sensor based on an entirely new technology. Albeit akin to an APS-C format, the SD1's Foveon sensor was capable of capturing three times as much colour information than its rivals and consequently clocked up a 46Mp count.…

Apple pulls China Japan war game amid diplomatic tensions

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT

Chinese censors let Apple do the hard work

Apple has done its bit to defuse rapidly escalating tensions between China and Japan, by pulling an inflammatory iOS game in which the player is tasked with defending a disputed set of islands in the East China Sea from the invading Japanese.…

FBI investigates ZTE cover-up allegations

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:15 PM PDT

Report claims ZTE sold illegal tech to Iran

The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE flouted United States laws by selling technology from US firms to Iran and then deliberately covering its tracks once the media caught wind.…

WikiWin: Icelandic court orders Visa to process WikiLeaks $$$

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:45 PM PDT

Financial ban lifted in Assange victory

WikiLeaks could be seeing an influx of funds after an Icelandic court ruled that Valitor, the local agent for Visa, broke the law when it stopped taking donations for the website.…

'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:25 PM PDT

Things could get interesting on Saturday

On Thursday at 5:53pm in London – 12:53pm in New York – the sun let loose with a hefty solar flare, resulting in a coronal mass ejection (CME) headed straight towards Earth that will likely arrive on Saturday at 10:20 UT, give or take about seven hours.…

Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:20 PM PDT

Holiest tablet since Moses was gifted by a burning bush

The tablet market is getting increasingly competitive these days, but an American company believes its offering may have a unique selling point: it's a fondleslab for the faithful.…

Digg, deep in the hole, sells self for $500K

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:19 PM PDT

All that's left is to shovel in the dirt and plant the daisy

Social news- and link-sharing site Digg has sold itself to New York technology incubator Betaworks for the paltry sum of $500,000.…

Kiwi pooches turn into ROACH MUNCHING DOPE FIENDS

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Red-eye, munchies, freezing to death

New Zealanders are being warned against letting the family dog at leftover whacky-baccy, with vets reporting a rash of hash-whacked pooches copping hypothermia and needing drip-treatment to survive.…

Online retail drives card fraud in Oz

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Reach for the cheque-book

OK, so nobody uses cheques any more: as a result, fraud based on the venerable paper slip with a signature is now well-and-truly eclipsed by online credit card fraud, according to the Australian Payments Clearing Association.…

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