Breaking : Credit Card Magnetic Strips Hacked!
If the security risks faced by credit card users weren’t already enough, now the security information that is stored in a magnetic strip behind the card can be hacked and be used for malicious purposes. Hacking the data on the magnetic strip so far has been unsuccessful but RFID security guru Adam Laurie has come up with a test program named CHaP.py, specifically designed to read the chip and PIN credit cards that comply with the EMV standard. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the EMV Standard : The... Read The Rest →
Blu-ray Trumps HD-DVD, A HD Download Battle Lies Ahead
The Format wars for the next generation DVD’s are over. Blu-ray backed by Sony Corp. has finally managed to trump Toshiba backed HD-DVD. Toshiba finally gave up yesterday, and the decision that Toshiba took was an “agonizing decision” that Toshiba had to take, says Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida. But then this decision had to be taken in the best interests of the company. The tipping point came when Warner Bros. decided to join Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema and Lionsgate to support Blu-ray... Read The Rest →
Feedburner Quietly Kills All Time Feed Stats
Feeburner, the leading Syndication Engine for just about most of the blogs on this planet, has pulled out one small but very useful feature from its statistics. Feedburner which was acquired by Google late last year has not yet come up with an explanation as to why the All Time Stats option was removed. But as of now, the data of the past is still preserved and there are workarounds for you to get it. But Still it isn’t nice on the part of Feedburner to remove this useful option... Read The Rest →
Harvard Site Hacked And Leaked Onto BitTorrent
The Website of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences seems to have had what you call major security breach. The whole of the website complete with Server backups, Databases of Students, Site Databases, and the Complete directory structure have been leaked onto BitTorrent. At the time of writing this, a 125MB Zip File is being tracked by Pirate Bay. According to Torrentfreak, the Harvard University website has become a victim of a major security breach. A Torrent that is currently available on Piratebay claims to be a... Read The Rest →
Dubai Building World's Most Futuristic Arch Bridge
Dubai may well be the City of dreams in the future. It continues to grow at a pace that surpasses the whole taken as a whole, and Dubai is building up onto its own mini universe. And combine that with an architecture, that is more like its from the next century only adds to the sheer beauty of Dubai. The bridge that you are seeing in the picture above is going to be the world’s largest and tallest Arch bridge. Envisioned by the New York Architect Firm Fxfowle , it... Read The Rest →
iPhones Infected With 'Chickenpox'
Several iPhone who snapped onto iPhones early when they were released are now reporting that their iPhones are having tiny bubbles under the glass layer. I’m not sure when this started, but a few users noticed this earlier, but didn’t bother much. But to make things worse, these bubbles apparently have multiplying nature. The Good thing is that Apple is replacing every single iPhone thats caught up with ‘Chickenpox’ with a brand new iPhone free of cost. Here are few selected quotes on what the users have to say on... Read The Rest →
Get Ready For Another iPhone Price Cut
9to5Mac is reporting that, Apple will soon be dropping the prices of the iPhone and the iPod Touch. It is believed that this will be a 100$ drop on all the existing models, and it could also possibly eliminate the lower end models like Apple did the last time with 4GB iPhone. I’m sure Apple is making this move, to increase the sales of the iPhone, like it last did. Also this makes perfect sense, since they have just launched the 16GB model, and they have apparently been making even... Read The Rest →
Yahoo! Might Reject Microsoft's Bid Tomorrow
The Wall Street Journal believes that Yahoo! will decline the $44.6 Billion Offer made by Microsoft to acquire it tomorrow. Should this happen tomorrow, it might set some wildfires tomorrow, as this would probably be considered as a bold move by Yahoo. Yahoo has said that it will not consider any offer made by Microsoft under 40$ a share. Over a series of meetings, the Yahoo board believes that this offer seriously undermines the true value of Yahoo. If at all Yahoo pushes for atleast 40$ a share, this would... Read The Rest →
A Step by Step Guide to Unlock Your 1.1.3 OTB iPhone
Mr. GEOrge HOTz did it again. He’s discovered an exploit that will allow you to unlock your brand new iPhone, thats factory fresh with the latest 1.1.3 firmware and the 4.6 bootloader. Unlocking your iPhone isn’t all that difficult, but I’d suggest you wait for more refined releases in the future. But if you are one of those who’ve been waiting forever for this unlock to come out. If you can’t wait any longer, then read on and follow the instructions below to unlock your iPhone in just about 15... Read The Rest →
[Stealth Mode] Yahoo Working on Flickr Video
Amidst all the media frenzy on the Yahoo acquisition, and the protesting Flickr Users opposing the Micr0s0ft takeover, we have yet another rumor from Dan Faber at ZDNet who believes that Flickr would be debuting its video service in the coming months. This isn’t all that surprising, its been there forever in the rumor mills but its timing has something interesting, considering the impending hostile bid from Microsoft. As I’ve already mentioned before this deal isn’t a good idea for the Web2.0 culture, that Yahoo has given us for... Read The Rest →
