Gamers Hijacked Your Server? Might Be An Inside Job
Remember that story we told you about last Friday where servers in a medical facility were being used to host CoD: Black Ops games? NetworkWorld asks a good question..."what if it was an inside job?" Is this kind of thing - gamers hijacking a server for a game session - common or not? I think such situations are probably fairly common, though perhaps not on such prominent servers. Games running on corporate servers are not always due to breaches, though, as system administrators can be fairly autonomous, and there are a number of games running on corporate networks operated by IT departments without the approval of higher-ups. Comments
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ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 Motherboard in [H]and
We shared a couple of spy pics with you on the new Sabertooth P67 motherboard from ASUS back in November. The months of waiting are finally over and we now have one of these motherboards in our own hands. When I was first shown this board last year, it was in a demo setup with the Sabertooth motherboard operating in a chassis, one without the Thermal Armor shroud and one with. The motherboard component temperature deltas were fairly large, so we are excited to finally get to test drive this Sabertooth P67 and see if the temperature demo works out in the real world with retail product. Ongoing Discussion
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Young Kids Learn Tech Skills Before Life Skills
A new study says your toddler is more likely to learn tech skills than important life skills. One statistic, I'm not kidding, said that more kids could open a web browser than swim unaided. Gee, ya think? Small children today are more likely to navigate with a mouse, play a computer game and increasingly – operate a smartphone – than swim, tie their shoelaces or make their own breakfast. This is according to a new 'Digital Diaries' study from Internet Security Company AVG (www.avg.com). AVG Digital Diaries is a series of studies looking at how children's interaction with technology has changed. Comments
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Fall In The Fountain While Texting "Girl" Has Lawyer
It turns out that the unidentified "girl" that was caught on tape falling into a fountain while texting...has a lawyer. Her attorney, James M. Polyak of Reading, said he plans to conduct an investigation into what happened. "We are troubled by the fact that anyone at the Berkshire Mall responsible for releasing this video would find humor in an employee injured on the premises," Polyak said. "We intend to hold the appropriate persons responsible. Comments
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Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Motherboard Review
Gigabyte is one of many manufacturers on the Sandy Bridge and P67 chipset bandwagon. We examine its latest offering, the P67A-UD7. A high end solution designed for the gamer and the hardware enthusiast. With so many P67 boards already out there to choose from, just how does the P67A-UD7 stack up?
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Microsoft VP Makes Money-Scented Perfume
At first I thought this was some kind of joke but, as odd as it may seem, it's not. Money scented perfume / cologne? I don't think you are going to like the kind of girl that stuff attracts. Patrick McCarthy, a vice president of sales at Microsoft, took a break from his day job to create His Money Cologne and Her Money Eau de Parfum, a line of his-and-hers fragrances that are designed to make the wearer smell like a million bucks -- or more, depending on how much you put on. Comments
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Intel AppUp Center Now Available Through Walmart
App lovers can now go to Walmart.com to download applications from the Intel AppUpSM center. Whether you're in the mood for some home cooking, social networking or new twists on classic games, the Intel AppUp center is home to tons of fun netbook and consumer laptop apps, including Angry Birds, Boxee, Mashable and Facebook for AppUp. Launched at IDF last year, the app store is also available through Best Buy, Best Buy Canada, Future Shop, Dixons, Asus, Croma, HSN, New Egg and TigerDirect. Comments
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BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol
The inventor of the BitTorrent protocol gave the crew at TorrentFreak an exclusive demonstration of his new P2P live streaming protocol. Follow the link to watch an embedded video of the demonstration. Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol that revolutionized file-sharing, is finalizing the code for his new P2P-live streaming protocol. With his efforts he aims to develop a piece of code superior to all other streaming solutions on the market today. The release of the application is still a few months away, but Cohen has shown a demo exclusively to TorrentFreak. Comments
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The "This Has To Be a Fake" Study of the Day
According to a new study, the first letter of our childhood surname determines a lot about our consumer behavior as grownups (PDF here). Supposedly, if your name starts with an Z, you are more likely to camp out overnight for an iDevice. If your last name starts with an A, you'll wait to buy. Seriously? If I funded this study, I'd ask for my money back. The authors studied how quickly adults responded to opportunities to acquire items of value to them. They found that the later in the alphabet people's childhood surnames were, the faster those consumers responded to purchase opportunities. The "last-name effect" occurred when the items were real (basketball tickets, cash, and wine) or hypothetical (sale on a backpack). Comments
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Researchers Turn USB Cable Into Attack Tool
For some reason, I was expecting a whip or nunchucks make from USB cables instead of this story. Damn, now I'm bummed. Angelos Stavrou, an assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University, and student Zhaohui Wang wrote software that changes the functionality of the USB driver so that they could launch a surreptitious attack while someone is charging a smartphone or syncing data between a smartphone and a computer. Comments
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67% of Facebook Users Were Spammed in 2010
According to the latest stats, sixty seven percent of Facebook users were spammed in 2010. The other 33% obviously had spam filters in place. In its annual Security Threat Report, the IT security firm found that 67 percent of those using social sites like Facebook and Twitter have been spammed at least once in 2010. Worse, 40 percent of social users were sent malware in 2010, nearly double what it was in the summer of 2009. Comments
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Weird Stuff From CES 2011
Hardware Secrets has an entire article dedicated to the "most unique" products they saw at CES this year. This steampunk keyboard is just one of the many items on display: Comments
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