At first, there was the iPhone – an iPod-esque smartphone that drew attention with its silvery metal-made outfit. Next was the iPhone 3G, the plastic housing of which came in either black or white. It was succeeded by the iPhone 3Gs, which could also be had in either black or…
It’s official! Next-generation Apple iPhones to be unveiled September 9th
Perhaps after weeks of hearing speculation that Apple will unveil its next-generation iPhones on September 9th, today’s news is anti-climatic. Still, Apple has just made the September 9th date official by sending out invitations to the event, which will be held in San Francisco. The new iPhone models, presumably named…
Alcatel OneTouch named the official phone, tablet partner of the LA Galaxy and the Stub Hub Center
While most sports fans in the U.S. are more excited about the pennant races brewing as we head into the home stretch of the 2015 regular season for Major League Baseball, there is an exciting match-up televised nationally today involving Major League Soccer. The NYCFC is taking on the LA…
Sony Xperia J1 Compact: The Phantom Pain Edition is official, pays homage to Metal Gear Solid
It’s pretty rare to see a nwly-announced smartphone pay homage to a highly-anticipated video game that is not even out yet, but it seems that Sony and game publisher Konami just pulled such a publicity stunt. The newest device of the Japan-based maker, the just-announced Sony Xperia J1 Compact: The…
Ashley Madison hack suggests British government workers used official email accounts to find sex
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans British government staff and council workers used their official email accounts to sign up to affairs website Ashley Madison, it has been claimed. Dozens of email addresses linked to top Westminster departments and some of the nation’s biggest local authorities have…
ISIS social media accounts are buzzing with a spreadsheet of personal data on employees of the American, British, and Australian governments, including military personnel. The Islamic State claims this list was compiled using data stolen from government systems by its “hacking division,” although some experts who have reviewed the list say most of it was more likely created using simple Google searches of publicly available data. There are about 1,400 individuals included on the list. The list was accompanied by a message from the “Islamic State Hacking Division,” transcribed by Sky News: O Crusaders, as you continue your aggression towards the Islamic State and your bombing campaign against the Muslims, know that we are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move. We have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands. So wait, we too are waiting. The Sydney Morning Herald criticizes Australian officials for being “caught on their heels” by the hit list, which includes Defense Force employees and a Victorian MP. Even though “Australia’s most senior Islamic State militant, former Melbourne man and terror recruiter Neil Prakash” was posting links to the hit list early Wednesday morning, at least half of the Australians targeted by ISIS said they were unaware of the threat until they were informed by the media… which contacted them using the phone numbers published by the Islamic State. “I’m completely at a loss,” said the aforementioned MP, who at least has access to a security detail assigned to protect elected officials. “What do I do? The police probably know less than you and I.” Defense Force employees on the list said they were in shock no one from the government had warned them. Various agencies of the Australian government declined to discuss the matter. In addition to Prakash – who crowed “Cyber war got em shook!” and “Kill them where you find them and enslave their women” on Twitter – the Herald reports “other prominent militants, including British man Junaid Hussain, who is third on a CIA kill list of Islamic State operatives, also used social media to promote the leak and encourage attacks.” Sky News reports the hit list includes British Foreign Office employees, plus a “local council employee.” Most of the names on the list are American, including personnel from the Air Force, Marines, NASA, FBI, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Russian state outlet RT.com says the list also includes “a worker in an Israeli magistrate’s court” and “someone in a college in Mississippi.” The RT.com article mentions some reasons for skepticism about the Islamic State’s claim that this list includes confidential information obtained by hackers: some of the phone numbers appear to be disconnected, while the purportedly stolen U.S. military passwords appearing on the list are “too weak to pass the guidelines of an official computer system operated by the Pentagon.” The Sydney Morning Herald also found some of the information published on the list to be outdated. “This is the second or third time they’ve claimed that and the first two times I’ll tell you, whatever lists they got were not taken by any cyber attack,” said Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, as quoted by the UK Guardian. The Guardian also cites the opinion of computer security expert Troy Hunt, who said the of the supposedly hacked data: “It’s pretty clear that it’s been aggregated from different sources. It’s been put together on the basis of a .gov or .mil address. Even the passwords, they’re not strong enough to have come from a corporate or government. They’re not even strong enough to have come from an online service – you can’t create a Gmail account, for example, with a password of less than eight characters, and here we’re seeing some passwords of three letters.” The UK Daily Mail notes that Twitter administrators appear to have shut down the Islamic State Hacking Division’s account three times on Wednesday while it attempted to spread its hit list around, leading to the creation of a fourth terrorist account with the message, “Kuffar seem to be raging.”
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ISIS social media accounts are buzzing with a spreadsheet of personal data on employees of the American, British, and Australian governments, including military personnel. The Islamic State claims this list was compiled using data stolen from government systems by its “hacking…
Here they are: Official Note5 wallpaper batch now available
If you, like us, have been keeping an eye out for the awesome wallpapers available with the Note5, today is your lucky day, for six high-res ones have been published online. Made available by xda-developers senior memeber Gabri™, the walls in the slideshow below range in size from half a meg…
Official tweet reveals that the Motorola Moto 360 successor might bring back the flat tire design
It looks like Motorola might have recently leaked a clear look at the successor to the original Motorola Moto 360, and if you aren’t to fond of the flat tire design of the original Moto 360, we’ve got some bad news. The information comes as the official Twitter account of…
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 is now official: powered by powerful Helio X10 chip, yet costs a shockingly low $125
Xiaomi just dropped a bomb that changes the landscape of affordable phones, at least in China: the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 is official and it comes with a shockingly low price of just $125 (799 yuan), yet is equipped with the most powerful MediaTek chip, the Helio X10, that you…
Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime is official with twice the memory, still hovering around $100
Precisely as speculated, Xiaomi just made the rumored Redmi 2 Prime, its first “made in India” phone, official on its dedicated website for the country. As expected, the phone is a memory upgrade over the ultrapopular Redmi 2 budget smartphone, offering the same 4.7″ IGZO screen from Sharp, Snapdragon 410…