Android app brings cookie stealing to unwashed masses |
- Android app brings cookie stealing to unwashed masses
- Caswell crams MIPS chips into cloud crates
- Lenovo to swallow German PC giant
- How to get cloud skills
- Microsoft's patents shakedown betrays spirit of Gates
- Judge blasts Cisco's 'unmitigated gall' in ex-exec's arrest
- Microsoft's anti–Google Docs weapon locked and loaded
- Hackers say Acer breach leaked data for 40,000 users
- Lara Croft returns in next-gen Tomb Raider title
- Syria shuts off interwebs
- Google network chief jumps to ... Microsoft
- Union warns of strike action against HP
- Hot bodies get super-slippery when wet
- Webmail buggers attack Yahoo!, Hotmail users
- Egyptian ad gives Vodafone credit for revolution
- Beeb's iPlayer dismisses radio show as 'b011ckxs'
- Resellers and customers frustrated by botched Oracle deliveries
- Slowing economy trims jobs growth in US
- Cellphones as carcinogenic as coffee
- UK gov to create central procurement team
- Sony presents PSP2 performance prior to E3
- Fort Worth joins crusade against sagging pants
- Entire London 2012 Olympics' cultural events database held on Excel
- Apple ignores dozens of iCloud domains
- Souped-up Coraid aims to change its spots
- Name that donkey: Barbarella battles Bathsheba
- Virgin Media frustrates customers with 'intermittent' routing blues
- Echostar HDS-600RS Freesat HD recorder
- OnLive cloud-gaming on UK horizon in Q3
- IAEA: Handling of Fukushima has been exemplary
- Facebook under fire over Israel, transgender bullying
- HTC exposes customers' privates
- Apple to open iCloud for 'free' before slapping $25 subs on service
- Toshiba reveals iPad 2 rival
- Belkin eBook Light
- PCM prototype beats PCIe flash
- HPC: Ready for the masses at last?
- Survey scammers target <i>Doctor Who</i> fans
- Chinese army: We really need to get into cyber warfare
- Kingston readies wireless portable storage
- German cops unleash corpse-hunting vultures
- Dell rumoured to be looking at Brocade
- Gordon Ramsay menaced by enormous TURKEY
- FCO to cut one-third from IT and telecoms spending
- Panasonic SC-BTT775 Blu-ray 5.1 home theatre
- HDS drops the Ball at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium
- Skype reverse-engineered and open sourced
- Google hands millions to 'independent' watchdogs
- New Sony hack exposes <i>more</i> consumer passwords
- RedBubble’s Nazi trouble
| Android app brings cookie stealing to unwashed masses Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:49 PM PDT Hello. It's time for always-on SSLA developer has released an app for Android handsets that brings website credential stealing over smartphones into the script kiddie realm.… |
| Caswell crams MIPS chips into cloud crates Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:55 PM PDT Micro servers aren't just for Xeons, AtomsTaiwanese network and communications equipment manufacturer Caswell has thrown its hat into the micro-server ring – but instead of starting out with a box based on x64 processors from Intel or AMD, the box maker is adopting a variant of the MIPS RISC processor.… |
| Lenovo to swallow German PC giant Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:49 PM PDT Largest deal since IBM PC biz borgingChinese PC maker Lenovo has agreed to acquire German consumer electronics and PC manufacturer Medion in a move that it says will double its market share in Germany, making it the third-largest PC company in that country.… |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:49 PM PDT Microsoft flexes training musclesDisclosure first - El Reg is a media partner of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA). And that means it's time for some, umm, media-ing.… |
| Microsoft's patents shakedown betrays spirit of Gates Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:45 PM PDT Innovative products, not intellectual property, ruleOpen...and Shut Microsoft, once the ruler of the software universe, doesn't even make Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt's Gang of Four influential tech companies. It's not that Microsoft has lost its ambition. But it may be that Microsoft's ambition has changed, and for the worse.… |
| Judge blasts Cisco's 'unmitigated gall' in ex-exec's arrest Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:16 PM PDT Canadian jurist denies extradition of alleged 'hacker'A Canadian judge has lambasted Cisco for its "unmitigated gall" and "duplicity" in goading US prosecutors to push for the public arrest of a former executive who was suing the US networking giant.… |
| Microsoft's anti–Google Docs weapon locked and loaded Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT Launch date named, reliability claimedThe rebranded edition of Microsoft's answer to Google Docs is officially launching on June 28, a top company executive has revealed.… |
| Hackers say Acer breach leaked data for 40,000 users Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:17 AM PDT Welcome to the club, AcerHackers say they breached the website security of computer-maker Acer and made off with data for 40,000 of its customers.… |
| Lara Croft returns in next-gen Tomb Raider title Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:56 AM PDT Blood bath on the beachLara Croft has returned in (almost) all her glory today, appearing in a promo trailer for the new Tomb Raider game, out next year.… |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:31 AM PDT Wait for the blackoutSyria appears to have begun shutting off internet links to the rest of the world.… |
| Google network chief jumps to ... Microsoft Posted: 03 Jun 2011 09:06 AM PDT Network boffins predict end of GoogleUpdate Vijay Gill – the man who oversaw The Google Network – is now at Microsoft, according to sources familiar with his move.… |
| Union warns of strike action against HP Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:30 AM PDT Plans to offshore 200 jobs meet stiff oppositionAround 200 Hewlett-Packard workers who provide IT services support to the Department for Work and Pensions in the North of England could see their jobs move overseas before the year is out.… |
| Hot bodies get super-slippery when wet Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:25 AM PDT Steamy balls could lead to sizzling speedy torpedoesAn Australian boffin says he has come up with a novel method for making things such as ship's hulls or torpedoes slip through water more easily.… |
| Webmail buggers attack Yahoo!, Hotmail users Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:20 AM PDT Gmail phishing assaults spread to MS and Yahoo! usersThe high-profile phishing campaign targeting the private Gmail accounts of government officials and political activists is part of a wider pattern of attacks also targeting Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, according to net security firm Trend Micro.… |
| Egyptian ad gives Vodafone credit for revolution Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:06 AM PDT It was Voda wot won itA three-minute video put out by its advertising agency claims that Vodafone Egypt was the driving force behind the revolution, much to the annoyance of the revolutionaries – and Vodafone.… |
| Beeb's iPlayer dismisses radio show as 'b011ckxs' Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:34 AM PDT Friday comedy url lol(lock)sFans of comedy urls are invited to raise a pint this afternoon to the Beeb's iPlayer, which is currently providing added value to Episode 7 of the 74th series of Radio 4's The News Quiz:… |
| Resellers and customers frustrated by botched Oracle deliveries Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:32 AM PDT Channel loses rag with Larry's logisticsOracle resellers are counting the cost of frequent instances of botched logistics.… |
| Slowing economy trims jobs growth in US Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:19 AM PDT Computer systems designers doing wellAccording to a report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job creation in the US economy has slowed and in May, the economy added only 54,000 net new jobs compared to the 160,000 anticipated by economists. The official unemployment rate inched up a tenth of a point to 9.1 per cent, and the actual unemployment rate is very likely at least twice that level.… |
| Cellphones as carcinogenic as coffee Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:10 AM PDT Gentlemen... start your panicComment Tuesday's classification of mobiles as potentially carcinogenic produced some great headlines, despite being based on no additional research or statistical findings and putting phones into the same danger category as coffee.… |
| UK gov to create central procurement team Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:09 AM PDT New body will contract for widely used goods and services at single priceThe Cabinet Office is to create a central team for the procurement of widely used goods and services for the whole of government. Named Government Procurement, it will set up contracts that use a single price for a specific good or service, and is aimed at removing disparities in price between departments.… |
| Sony presents PSP2 performance prior to E3 Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:07 AM PDT View of the VitaFootage of Sony's forthcoming handheld - the NGP - has surfaced online, showing the device in action ahead of its appearance at next week's E3 Expo.… |
| Fort Worth joins crusade against sagging pants Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:56 AM PDT 'Pull 'em up or find another ride', bus passengers toldFort Worth has struck a blow for fashion decency by banning anyone wearing their trousers at half-mast from boarding its buses.… |
| Entire London 2012 Olympics' cultural events database held on Excel Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:47 AM PDT We're all doomed!Updated The London 2012 Olympics is set be a humanoid spectacle of the like never witnessed by the world's population before. Or something. But disturbing information has reached us at Vulture Central that reveals the organisation's entire cultural events database is stored in *gasp* Excel.… |
| Apple ignores dozens of iCloud domains Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:30 AM PDT Mr Bojangles takes $4.5m, keeps namesApple may have paid millions for the domain name iCloud.com, but it seems to have left dozens of related domains in the hands of former iCloud owner Xcerion.… |
| Souped-up Coraid aims to change its spots Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:26 AM PDT From pussycat to panther?Comment Coraid used to be a downmarket beast, selling its Ethernet storage wares off a barrow on the street - now it's got shiny new management and has new aspirations. Can it make the transition and become a creature to be reckoned with?… |
| Name that donkey: Barbarella battles Bathsheba Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:14 AM PDT Judge mulls reader names for Baby 'B'We at the El Reg Iberian bureau's Donkey Affairs Department are very much obliged for all your suggestions as to how we might name the latest member of our asinine fold – the splendid jenny seen here* yesterday challenging kittens in baskets for a slice of the 2012 cute creature calendar market:… |
| Virgin Media frustrates customers with 'intermittent' routing blues Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:11 AM PDT Ongoing problem yet to be nailedVirgin Media is asking its broadband customers to be patient while the company attempts to fix what it has described as an "intermittent routing issue" on its network.… |
| Echostar HDS-600RS Freesat HD recorder Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT DVR with Sling slung inReview Freesat, launched three years ago, hasn't quite caught the imagination in the same way as Freeview HD, but if you don't have terrestrial coverage, or you want more channels than Freeview provides, without having to go for pay TV, it's a good option.… |
| OnLive cloud-gaming on UK horizon in Q3 Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:48 AM PDT Follow the streamAfter a successful first year in the US, cloud-based game service OnLive is finally heading to the UK this autumn.… |
| IAEA: Handling of Fukushima has been exemplary Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:43 AM PDT No one harmed, nothing suppressed, normal life to resumeA preliminary report by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has stated that the response to the Fukushima nuclear incident was "exemplary" and that nobody has been harmed by radiation exposure resulting from it.… |
| Facebook under fire over Israel, transgender bullying Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:40 AM PDT Mod squad overlooks teen bullies' page, took peace activists' downFacebook was under fire again yesterday from various groups for alleged inconsistency in its moderation – too quick, it was claimed, to take down material supporting non-mainstream causes, too slow to react in other cases.… |
| HTC exposes customers' privates Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:23 AM PDT Maybe someone else will ship them a phone?HTC might be very slowly improving the quality of its repair service, but for the last week it has also been revealing customer details with a flick of a URL.… |
| Apple to open iCloud for 'free' before slapping $25 subs on service Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:21 AM PDT Wrapped in ads, tooApple is reportedly planning to shepherd its existing iTunes subscribers into the company's upcoming iCloud service, by initially offering them to make the online pilgrimage at nada cost.… |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:05 AM PDT Thrive in businessToshiba has unveiled details of its forthcoming Android slate, previously known as the Toshiba Tablet. Officially dubbed the Thrive, the Tosh fondleslab is set to undercut the fruity market leader according to the US pricing it has announced.… |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Illumination for illuminationsTxt Take Daily Product reviews in 140 characters...… |
| PCM prototype beats PCIe flash Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:58 AM PDT Student boffins' box slower at large writes thoughA first-generation Phase Change Memory device has been built, faster than OCZ's VeloDrive PCIe flash card with random blockI/O but slower with sequential writes.… |
| HPC: Ready for the masses at last? Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:13 AM PDT Complexity commoditisedBroadcast It's time to start thinking creatively about HPC: can it be standardised and commoditised? Can it be applied to more of your compute-intensive problems? Can virtualisation and the cloud create a flexible, scalable HPC environment that we can all use?… |
| Survey scammers target <i>Doctor Who</i> fans Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:08 AM PDT Fake video clip shenanigansSurfers following up supposed online excerpts from the eagerly-awaited mid-season finale of Doctor Who will only find themselves stuck in the middle of survey scams, security researchers warn.… |
| Chinese army: We really need to get into cyber warfare Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:44 AM PDT Completely straight faceSenior Chinese officers think that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) needs to make more of an effort on cyber warfare.… |
| Kingston readies wireless portable storage Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:32 AM PDT Wi-Drive takes the airKingston has launched a storage expansion option for iOS, giving customers the chance to extend their HDD limits and share files with other Apple users.… |
| German cops unleash corpse-hunting vultures Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:05 AM PDT Crime-busting flying SherlocksGerman cops have recruited three vultures which they reckon could prove handy in locating corpses, the BBC reports.… |
| Dell rumoured to be looking at Brocade Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:04 AM PDT Is a buy on the books?Could Dell be readying a bid for Brocade and its networking business?… |
| Gordon Ramsay menaced by enormous TURKEY Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:33 AM PDT 'Oh my word what an absolute stinker'Gobby food-botherer Gordon Ramsay is facing what the Sun describes as his "biggest ever TURKEY", as he makes his movie debut in forthcoming "romcom" Love's Kitchen.… |
| FCO to cut one-third from IT and telecoms spending Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 4-year plan for ICT cash-slashThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) plans to cut its IT and telecommunications running costs by 30 per cent to 40 per cent – all the while reducing their environmental impact and providing "better services" to staff, according to a new strategy.… |
| Panasonic SC-BTT775 Blu-ray 5.1 home theatre Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT Let me entertain youReview A Blu-ray-in-a-box surround sound system is always going to be a bit of a compromise – you shouldn't expect the ultimate in audio quality, but you do get the convenience of having the whole kit and caboodle configuration. In the case of Panasonic's SC-BTT775, you get a good range of features too, with 5.1 sound backed by a built-in 1,000W amplifier, 1080p upscaling, 3D Blu-ray disc compatibility and a slide-out iPod dock.… |
| HDS drops the Ball at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Unveils UK head honcho at partner eventHitachi Data Systems' CEO Jack Domme kicked off yesterday's Information Forum for partners by inviting on stage UK managing director Stephen Ball just 24 hours after his appointment.… |
| Skype reverse-engineered and open sourced Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT How soon will Microsoft blow?There have been many analyses of Skype's behaviour over the years (the most famous perhaps is from Baset and Schultzrinne), but as far as Vulture Central is aware, nobody has yet gone so far as to reverse-engineer the whole kit-and-caboodle.… |
| Google hands millions to 'independent' watchdogs Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:37 PM PDT Licking the hand that feeds itWhat do you do when a global corporation pays out millions to the watchdogs that we expect to protect us against it? It's a fair question to ask in light of the Chocolate Factory's legal settlement this week, over Google Buzz. The privacy class action suit has landed a windfall of millions of dollars to "privacy" groups - but not a cent to ordinary citizens, users of Google Gmail's service whose privacy was compromised.… |
| New Sony hack exposes <i>more</i> consumer passwords Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:15 PM PDT The 'sownage' continuesHackers who last week broke into the website of television network PBS have turned their attention to Sony's movie division, publishing what appeared to be the email addresses and passwords belonging to at least 50,000 consumers who registered for online promotions.… |
| Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:14 PM PDT Arty Hitler humour draws fireOnline arts community and digital darling, RedBubble, has attracted the ire of the Australian Jewish community and is suffering a membership backlash over its affiliation with New York based T-shirt and merchandiser designers Hipster Hitler.… |
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