Anonymous claims responsibility for Home Office website hack
Anonymous says it is behind an attack which brought down the government's official Home Office website this weekend.
The Hacktivist group is said to have used a simple denial of service attack, which it had first announced via Twitter on Wednesday, proclaiming it would be attacking UK Government websites every Saturday.
Following the successful take-down, a triumphant Anonymous wrote on Twitter: "TANGO DOWN - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk For your draconian surveillance proposals! Told you to #ExpectUs!"
The group also claimed to have flooded the Prime Minister's official number10.gov.uk website with requests, although no widespread outage has been confirmed.
Double trouble
The reasons for the attack are thought to be two-fold. Anonymous, like most of the civilised world, took exception to the well-reported government plans to monitor citizens' web, email and phone use.The DDoS attack has also been linked to extradition policy, especially concerning the long-running case of Gary McKinnon, the Asperger's sufferer who faces being handed over to the US on hacking charges.
No private data lost
A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed the attack, which restricted access to the Home Office site from 21:00 BST on Saturday night until 05:00 on Sunday morning.She said: "The Home Office website was the subject of on online protest last night. This is a public facing website and no sensitive information is held on it.
"There is no indication that the site was hacked and other Home Office systems were not affected."
She also claimed measures have been put in place to protect the website against future attacks.
However, with knowledge of the planned attack in the public domain since Wednesday, many will wonder why those precautions were not put in place prior to the event.
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Apple brings Universal Studios movies to iCloud
Apple has secured a deal with Universal Studios to allow users to access digital movie purchases via iTunes in the Cloud.
Titles like Knocked Up can now be easily re-downloaded across an individual's iOS and iTunes-enabled devices, if the same account is in use.
Apple had announced that movies would join music, books and apps as part of the iCloud service during the new iPad 3 launch last month.
Spanner in the works
However, the plans were undermined by a previous contractual arrangement with HBO, meaning Universal and Fox titles were excluded from Apple's new offeringApple insisted it would work out the details as soon as possible and iTunes users are now reporting the restrictions on Universal movies have been lifted.
It is also thought that the company is in negotiations with Fox to ensure titles from all of the major studios are on board.
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Nvidia Tegra 4 coming Q1 2013?
The next generation of Nvidia tablet and smartphone processors will arrive early next year, according to reports in China.
The successor to the current Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, naturally called the Nvidia Tegra 4, will launch on tablets in Q1 of 2013, says VR-ZONE's Chinese-language site.
The report claims the Tegra 4 will boast four new Cortex A15 chips from ARM, which will surpass the A9 Cortex chips currently fleshing out devices like the ASUS Transformer Prime.
Helping Android and Windows take on Apple
Clocking-up speeds of 1.8GHz per chip, the Tegra 4 is scheduled to make its first appearance on a 10-inch tablet.Other variations of the chip, reaching speeds of up to 2.0GHz, will follow in Q3, according to the leaked chart.
Tegra 4 is likely to give rise to a new breed of super-fast Android and Windows 8 tablets, which could battle the iPad's A5X processor.
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Tutorial: How to get more from Spotlight
How to get more from Spotlight
As OS X has matured and iOS has entered the equation, it's becoming increasingly clear that Apple's vision of the future of computing aims to ditch much of the baggage of the past.The mouse is on borrowed time, replaced by gestural interfaces that enable you to manipulate content more easily. Also up for the chop is the entire file system, which Apple is slowly edging towards the exit, to be replaced by app-specific file sandboxes and contextual system-wide searches.
If we look back at the history of Apple's operating systems, this process began in earnest with Spotlight. In 2005, Mac OS X 10.4 introduced Spotlight, providing a central location for searching your entire Mac and also providing results in an intuitive and grouped manner.
Over time, Spotlight has wormed its way through the system. It's now used to power searches in Finder windows, to unearth messages in Mail, and for searches in various other apps. Throughout, the aim is to enable you to find information merely by typing a couple of words into a search field, rather than laboriously picking your way through myriad nested folders.
But there are issues with Spotlight. It can be slow, the Finder window interface for setting up searches isn't particularly intuitive, and if you use a cloning app (such as SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner) to regularly make a copy of your data, all the files on your external drive will also show up in Spotlight. It's all too easy to pick the wrong one, launching something on your backup rather than your Mac.
We provide some tips for taming Spotlight. We'll look at the initial settings you can define in System Preferences as well as creating custom searches that can be stashed in Finder's sidebar for later use.
How to customise Spotlight's settings
01. Prune results lists
Launch System Preferences (from the Apple menu) and click Spotlight (under Personal) and then the Search Results tab. If you see document types you don't use or care to have in Spotlight results, uncheck the relevant boxes, in order to streamline the Spotlight menu.
02. Reorder categories
When using the menu bar, Spotlight search results show a 'top result' but other results are grouped by type. Drag categories to reorder them. If you often search for PDFs, drag 'PDF Documents' towards the top. If you launch apps via Spotlight, drag 'Applications' to the top.
03. Adjust key shortcuts
By default, Spotlight offers Command+[Space] for triggering the system-wide Spotlight search from the menu bar, and Option+Command+[Space] for a Finder-window search. Click the checkboxes to disable either shortcut, or use the menus to have the Spotlight shortcuts use function keys.
04. Create custom shortcuts
To use different custom shortcuts for Spotlight, click inside one of the two shortcut fields and press your shortcut. The field should change to reflect your new setting. If you stray from the defaults, ensure you don't use shortcuts that clash with any other application.
05. Block locations or drives
Spotlight indexes all it can. To block it from certain files, folders or drives, drag them into the Privacy tab within the Spotlight pane, or use the + button to add items. This is worth doing for backups; also, adding and removing a drive forces a re-index if Spotlight's gone screwy.
06. Test it out
Use your shortcut (Command+[Space] by default) to bring up Spotlight. Type a word to search for. The list will be filtered as you add more characters. You can use the cursor keys to navigate the list and [Space] to get a Quick Look preview of any selected item. Hit Return to launch.
07. Start a Finder search
Use Option+Command+[Space] (or your alternative shortcut) to bring up a Finder window with a blank Spotlight search. Type your search into the box at the top-right. To narrow further, click the + button and use the menus to choose a criteria, such as 'Last opened date is today'.
08. Save a Spotlight search
To store a search for later, click Save and give it a name. By default, saved searches are stored in /Library/Saved Searches, but you can save them anywhere. For very quick access, check Add To Sidebar and you can access your search from any Finder window sidebar.
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