According to a new survey by Symantec, most people that fall victim to hackers blame themselves. Researchers found that 65 percent of Internet users worldwide have already been victims. In the U.S., it's 73 percent, but things are worse in China (83 percent), Brazil (76 percent) and India (also 76 percent). Those results stood out to Norton Internet Safety Advocate Marian Merritt, who tracks this type of data for a living. "What we were really surprised by was, first of all, how common it was that people are being victimized by cybercrime," she said. Comments
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Creditors Turn to Facebook for Payments
You know that super hot chick that just sent you a friend request? She's actually a debt collector keeping tabs on you. Attorney Regina McConnell represents collection agencies in court. She tells 8 News Now, finding people on Facebook is the latest trend. It begins by companies posing as an attractive person. Comments
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ACLU Sues Over Laptop Searches At The Border
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking on the Department of Homeland Security's policy of allowing guards to search your laptop at the border for no reason. The American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) today filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) policy permitting border agents to search, copy and detain travelers' electronic devices at the border without reasonable suspicion. DHS asserts the right to look though the contents of a traveler's electronic devices – including laptops, cameras and cell phones – and to keep the devices or copy the contents in order to continue searching them once the traveler has been allowed to enter the U.S., regardless of whether the traveler is suspected of any wrongdoing. Comments
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Two Asteroids to Pass near Earth Wednesday
With all our high-tech gadgetry, computers and space agencies with high powered telescopes on this planet, how the hell did we not see this coming? Is it too late to give Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck a call? Two asteroids are expected to pass within 154,000 miles of Earth on Wednesday _ closer than the distance between the Earth and the moon, NASA announced. Neither will hit the planet, NASA was quick to add. Comments
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GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX Overclocking Contest Winners Announced
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced Taiwanese overclocker, Nick Shih as the winner of the GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX contest hosted by HWBOT. Nick scored a total of 13 points using a GIGABYTE GA-H55N-USB3 motherboard. The GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX contest set a new milestone in the overclocking community as the first Mini-ITX motherboard only online overclocking contest. In addition, this ground-breaking competition was held for the love of overclocking and not for the love of prizes, so there is no prize for the winner. Instead, the winner will have the honor of being the world's first Mini-ITX overclocking champion. The contest was split into 2 categories running the Super Pi 32m benchmark: Stage 1 had a CPU speed limit of 4,000 MHz, and Stage 2 had no CPU speed limit. At the end of August, Nick Shih led the competition with a blazing CPU speed of 6.4GHz reaching 6min 18sec 469ms in the Stage 2 category. A fantastic achievement! Comments
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Intel Wants Your Future Home Phone Ideas
Today, phones are getting smarter and apps are exploding in growth. There are even plans for 3-D holographic screen interfaces. But what might the future home phone look like do for us? What kind of software or apps do you think it should have? Submit ideas here: facebook.com/IntelIdeas. The winner will be invited to Intel's AZ campus to serve as an honorary VP of R&D, receive a new notebook and development software, and have the opportunity to develop their idea with Intel engineers. Comments
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Enermax Revolution85+ 1020W Power Supply Review
Efficiency as a goal. Future CPU proof and future GPU proof as a goal. Enermax has set the bar high and that is what we like to see out of one of our favorite PSU companies. Does the new Revolution85+ bound over that bar or just limbo under it?
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NSA: U.S. Has a Duty to Secure the Internet
The NSA says the U.S. has a responsibility to secure the internet from internal and external attackers. The NSA? Seriously? Aren't they the agency that makes people go "poof." In a speech at the Gov 2.0 Summit here, Alexander said that it is incumbent upon the U.S. government to play a major role in making both the public Internet and private, classified networks more secure and resilient to attack. "We made the Internet and it seems to me that we ought to be the first folks to get out there and protect it," Alexander said. "The challenge before us is large and daunting. But we have an obligation to meet it head-on." Comments
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Pirate Bay Sunk At Last After Europe-Wide Raids?
According to these reports, authorities in fourteen countries have conducted raids on an untold number of file sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay. The news reports go on to say that the site hosting Wikileaks has also been taken down although the authorities claim they were not the target of the raids. Odd, I didn't we said this would happen over a week or so ago. Police in up to 14 countries around Europe have coordinated to carry out raids against suspected file-sharing servers this morning. Locations in The Netherlands, Czech Republic and Hungary were targeted but Sweden appears to have borne the brunt of the action. Seven locations including PRQ, which hosts WikiLeaks, have been raided. Comments
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Facebook Usage Causes 20% Drop In Exam Results
According to a new study, people that use Facebook and all their Facebook friends are 20% dumber than people that didn't accept your invitation to Facebook. I guess I am on that 20% list too. Hit me up and we can be stupid friends together. The study, which will be published in the Journal Computers in Human Behaviour, looked at the a sample of 219 students aged between 19 and 54, and how they performed in tests while using Facebook. The research found out that on average, switching between Facebook and learning decreased grades by 20 per cent, from a GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.82 to 3.06, on a scale of 0 to 4. Comments
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HP Suing Former CEO Mark Hurd
Now that was fast! Wow, I guess HP don't mess around when it comes to lawsuits. "Despite being paid millions of dollars in cash, stock and stock options in exchange for Hurd's agreements to protect HP's trade secrets and confidential information during his employment and following his departure from his positions at HP as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President, HP is informed and believes and thereon alleges that Hurd has put HP's most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril. Hurd accepted positions with Oracle Corporation ("Oracle"), a competitor of HP, yesterday as its President and as a member of its Board of Directors. In his new positions, Hurd will be in a situation in which he cannot perform his duties for Oracle without necessarily using and disclosing HP's trade secrets and confidential information to others." Comments
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AMD Demonstrating Fusion APU at IFA 2010
John Taylor AMD's director of Fusion Marketing, attending the 2010 IFA Consumer Electronics show in Berlin, says the company is demonstrating the low power AMD Fusion APU in systems that are expected to ship in Q1 2011. Here is the gist of the blog post: Before we talk power, let's remember the basics of what AMD is packing into this mighty little package: Dual low-power CPU cores codenamed "Bobcat", providing mainstream CPU performance in less than one-half the die area and a fraction of the power. DirectX11-capable GPU cores derived from the award-winning AMD Radeon™ discrete GPU. This is the GPU technology on which AMD built its position as the world leader and #1 market share for discrete GPUs. A new Unified Video Decoder (UVD) on-die in the APU. AMD plans to ramp production here in 2010, with systems available in early 2011. So here at IFA 2010, we're both demonstrating the capabilities of low-power AMD Fusion APUs, and providing a little more information on the individual products. "Brazos" is the codename for the notebook, netbook and desktop platforms that will be built from the APU. But the APU itself comes in two flavors based on performance and (low) power draw: An 18-watt TDP APU codenamed "Zacate" for ultrathin, mainstream, and value notebooks as well as desktops and all-in-ones. And a 9-watt APU codenamed "Ontario" for netbooks and small form factor desktops and devices. Both low-power APU versions feature two "Bobcat" x86 cores and fully support DirectX11, DirectCompute (Microsoft programming interface for GPU computing) and OpenCL (cross-platform programming interface standard for multi-core x86 and accelerated GPU computing). Both also include UVD dedicated hardware acceleration for HD video including 1080p resolutions. Comments
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Nano Tech Could Cool Server Farms
Researchers from Sweden's Institute of Technology have developed a nanofluid that they claim will improve water's ability to conduct heat by 60%. Thanks to Philip B. for the linkage. "Companies will be saving the cost of cooling; secondly, their electronics will function better at lower temperatures, and thirdly, it is greener technology, we are using less energy," said Muhammed. Comments
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[H] iPhone App - Random [H] Sighting
While we don't have an official [H] iPhone app yet, there is an extremely easy way to put an app-ish looking [H] button on your iPhone's home screen so that you can get your mobile [H] fix with a single press of a button: Obviously a lot of you know how to do this but, for those of you that don't, open Safari and go to www.hardocp.com (duh). Hit the + button at the bottom of the screen. Click the "add to home screen" button and presto! You have a shortcut on your iPhone that looks like a regular app. Comments
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