MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA – On the day President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III delivered his first State of the Nation Address, a new and seemingly improved Gov.PH website also went up. This time, the website is more like a professional blog than the standard HTML website that had been in use during the entirety...
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Anti-carbon trading activists shut down the website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), over the weekend, replacing the site with a spoof page lampooning the industry. The website of the London-based carbon credit trading platform was hacked at close to midnight on Friday and showed the spoof homepage for around 22 hours. It then...
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There’s new concern for iPad users after hackers got into the AT&T website and exposed thousands of user email addresses last month. The breach also exposed a little known number that could lead a hacker to a user’s front door: the ICC-ID number. Experts warn if a hacker has your ICC-ID number and they...
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Moscow communicated with a ring of alleged spies in America by encoding instructions in otherwise innocent-looking images on public websites. It’s a process called steganography. And it’s one of a slew of high-tech and time-tested methods that the deep-cover agents and their Russian handlers used to pass information — from private Wi-Fi networks to...
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Hackers compromised the website of the Jerusalem Post on Monday so that it served up malware. The attack relied on planting scripts on the site itself, rather than the more common tactic of compromising its ad-serving system to serve tainted ads. The attack ultimately attempted to dump Windows-based malware on the Windows PCs of...
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Apple has updated its MobileMe Web service with several improvements to the Gallery, iDisk, Sync, and Find My iPhone features. Apple has also released the MobileMe Mail beta program as described in this article earlier this week. These improvements to MobileMe are definitely welcomed as many users would like to see Apple step up...
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BumpTop, an application that turns your desktop from a 2D environment into a 3D workspace has been bought by Google starting rumours that the company’s Chrome OS operating system due out later in the year will be getting a shiny new interface. BumpTop, currently available to download for Mac and Windows users until the...
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For almost a week now, the super awesome torrent site Demonoid has been down. While others can still connect, they are still complaining because it’s terribly slow and the site is almost not loading at all. It is not the first time for the site to went down. Last year, around September 19, the...
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced Monday that one of its websites was hacked on Friday and Saturday and the police were investigating. Servers of Alibaba’s foreign wholesale marketplace, Aliexpress, in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, and in the United States were hacked constantly on April 16 and 17, said Wu Hao, head of...
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Do you want to know which Websites are going to look good on an iPad that’s running the built-in Safari browser? Apple’s got a list up on its Website, showing off some “iPad ready” sites. The common denominator is use of the latest Web standards, defined by Apple as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (you’ll...
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