Australian Federal Police have announced the arrest of an Australian man who is alleged to have been behind a website selling stolen usernames and passwords for streaming services. The website, called WikedGen.com, is alleged to have had 120,000 users and contained over 1 million stolen Hulu, Netflix and Spotify passwords. The arrest was said to … Read more
30 years ago today, March 12, an engineer at The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) had an idea that would change the world. In a document entitled “Information Management: A Proposal”, CERN engineer Sir Tim Barnes-Lee laid out his vision for a system of managing and linking information. The system he envisioned would utilize … Read more
Popular cryptocurrency mining operation CoinHive, has officially closed. CoinHive’s product was a web browser-based cryptocurrency miner. The miner, a Javascript application, could be loaded into any website. It was very popular with cryptocurrency faucet websites. Most used it as an additional source of income while sharing part of the profits with users. Mainstream sites such … Read more
During a press conference leading Democrats announced a bill to fix Net Neutrality rules. The bill titled the “Save the Internet Act”, states that the rules pertaining to Net Neutrality that the FCC ordered repealed in late 2017 must be restored. The bill was championed by several prominent Democrats including Speaker of the House Nancey … Read more
The Energizer brand is known for a lot of things. Most obviously batteries, and that drumming bunny in their commercials. In recent years, however, it has been associated with cellphones. French phone manufacturer Avenir Telecom has licensed the brand and is selling phones through its Energizer Mobile division. Their latest phone, the P18K Pop, is … Read more
We have all experienced those annoying telemarketing robocalls, selling us various things we don’t need and didn’t ask for. In my case, it’s at least every other phone call. Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai is also getting annoyed by this trend. As a result, he is pushing his agency to get more involved. Last … Read more
In an unsurprising move Google has decide to pull plug on it’s social networking service, Google+. The service, started in June of 2011, was Google’s fourth foray into the social networking arena, and by most accounts can be considered a failure. Forbes magazine put it best when they stated that: “Google+ has been an unmitigated … Read more
Greetings! So this project hasn’t had updates in a some time, I know, and I am still figuring out where to go next. The original point of this project was to learn how to build a blog on a self hosted server and learn as much as possible. I have accomplished that goal. The problem … Read more
I just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a Happy New Year. May your 2018 be blessed prosperous, and happy! We have been a bit quiet around here but we have some big changes coming for 2018, stay tuned!
It was revealed earlier this week that many HP laptops have code within the keyboard driver that acts as a key logger. Computer researcher Michael Myng discovered the code whilst poking around in the Keyboard driver code. His intent was not to look for security issues, but to control the keyboard backlight, but in his … Read more
