§ February 22nd, 2012 § Filed under Tech News Comments Off
Weekly Focal Tech News: August 7
A 10-year-old girl hacker CyFi finding zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android, announcement of BlackBerry Bold 9900, super smartphone Samsung Hercules 4.5 Inch or rumors of one unified platform for applications and cloud services are weekly focal tech news of the week August 7.
A 10-year-old girl hacker CyFi, also known as pseudonym CyFi, wows the technology industry as well as attendants at the DefCon 19 convention (event for hackers from around the world) by the finding of zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android devices. Reportedly, the Californian girl discovered the flaw around January 2011 because she felt boring with the pace of farm-style games. The ten-year-old hacker, artist and athlete is also co-founder of DEFCON Kids.
10-year-old girl hacker CyFi
In the celebration of BlackBerry World 2011 in Orlando, USA, RIM (Research in Motion) has confirmed the BlackBerry Bold 9900 as the thinnest touchscreen BlackBerry in the world. The smartphone?s thickness is only 10.5mm and all other features remain the same as previous Blackberry Bold version. The phone has dimension length 115mm and wide 66mm.
Bold 9900: The thinnest TouchScreen BlackBerry in the world
§ February 20th, 2012 § Filed under Tech News Comments Off
Weekly Focal Tech Events: July 11 ? 17, 2011
The international hacker collective ?Anonymous? threatened to cause the biggest attack, Google plus lost their appearance, ultraportable 1.4 GHz dual-core speed of Sony Ericsson, and so on are included in the top focal tech events this week, from July 11 to 17, 2011.
Last week, 15 suspected hackers of the international hacker collective ?Anonymous? were arrested because of related in service attack incident on Italian websites. The world?s most notorious hacker group announced a threat of attacking the computer systems, so Tuesday 12 July is considered ?the biggest day in Anonymous?s history?. The objective of Anonymous in this attack is the Metropolitan Police after news that they received money from News International?s journalists.
Members of the hackers group Anonymous, with their trademark masks, expressed anger over News International?s phone hacking and at the threatened extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
NextWeb, the first tech page posting the article about the new social network of Google attacked users by letter bomb. It is said that this situation still occurred even when users turn off email notification settings in the settings of Google+.
Spam bomb incident makes Google+ lose their points although later, a spokesman of Google, on behalf of the company apologized for bombing spam that they do not expect
