Archive for February 2012
February 1, 2012
· British children feel 'sad' and 'lonely' without the net?
· Facebook post has over a million comments, earns world record
· Redbox breaks ties with Warner Bros. over 56-day window
· Best Buy Offering $50 Gift Card To Anyone Who Upgrades To A New Phone Before December 31, 2012
· Today is Change Your Password Day
· Evernote 3.0.6 released on the Mac App Store
· Western Digital shows off a Thunderbolt hard drive at Macworld | iWorld 2012
· ARM's first 64-bit processors target servers, smartphones
· Symantec recants Android malware claims
February 2, 2012
· How to stream Super Bowl XLVI
· South Korean man faces jail for retweeting North Korean Twitter messages
· Google must pay $660,000 for offering Google Maps for free
· Lingon 3.0.2 released on the Mac App Store
· DownloadManager 2.1.7 released on the Mac App Store
· OS X 10.7.3 causing CUI errors for some, Combo Update recommended
· VeriSign admits it was hacked repeatedly in 2010, staff didn't tell senior management
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· Sprint offers up to $100 off phones to catch leaving users
· FileVault 2 easily decrypted, warns Passware
· Half of Fortune 500 firms infected with DNS Changer
· 10 Key Statistics about Facebook
· iTunes Match Is Ruining The Lives Of Customers And Rappers By Censoring Explicit Tracks
· Senate passes insider-trading bill
February 3, 2012
· Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download
· Hacked companies still not telling investors
· Have a Thin Mints craving? Find your local Girl Scouts cookie booth and pay with your mobile
· Dropbox offers up to 5GB of free space to anyone willing to go beta
February 4, 2012
· AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage
February 5, 2012
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February 6, 2012
· Google to start hanging Internet cables today in Kansas City, KS
February 7, 2012
· BTJunkie shuts down as Megaupload arrests put pressure on filesharing
· Symantec pcAnywhere Code Leaked After $50,000 Payoff Deal Collapses
· Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on Android
February 8, 2012
· Trendnet security cam flaw exposes video feeds on net
· Government rejects a pardon for computer genius Alan Turing
· Study: 'App Economy' has created 500,000 jobs since 2007
· Apple to Stream Live Paul McCartney Concert to iTunes and Apple TV
· Yahoo ousts half its board
· Path discovered phoning home with your address book
· Canon introduces two new AirPrint inkjet printers
· Anonymity bites Anonymous in attempt to extort Symantec
· Extortion failed - Anonymous posts Symantec source code
· Windows 8 Consumer Preview due February 29
· Path closes contact sharing hole on iPhone, apologizes (Update)
February 9, 2012
· WiFi Scanner 1.5 released on the Mac App Store
· Website operator pleads guilty to terrorist threats
· Kodak to stop making cameras, end era
February 10, 2012
· Another survey that shows vendors think you're stupid
· New York Attorney General Agrees to Terminate Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel
· RSS Menu 2.1 released on the Mac App Store
February 11, 2012
· Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site
· Users of Citibank Bill-Pay App Charged Twice
February 13, 2012
· UK's Metropolitan Police warn Windows users of a malware attack that poses as a message from the cops themselves
· Anonymous take down Greece government and police websites
· Ticketmaster warns of hacked mailing list, Adobe Reader spams sent out
· Hacker says he nabbed data about porn site's users
· Hackers probably stole Steam transaction data, Valve says
· WiFi Scanner 1.5.1 released on the Mac App Store
· 3 Grand Theft Auto games now available for Macs
· Hard drive prices to remain high through 2014
· Microsoft's store site in India defaced; hackers find plain text passwords
February 14, 2012
· Google Wallet hacked again, no root access required this time
· DDoS Tools Flourish, Give Attackers Many Options
· 1Password 3.9.4 released on the Mac App Store
· FBI seeks social media monitoring tool
· UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims
February 15, 2012
· iKeeper 4.0 released on the Mac App Store
· iPhone 5 tester SMS text scam hits cellphone users
· LaCie 2big Thunderbolt series available now in 4TB and 6TB sizes
· VeriSign, Pillar of Internet Security, Hacked
February 16, 2012
· Adobe confirms new zero-day Flash bug
· Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data
· Code from slain spam botnet recycled to steal passwords
· Symantec releases Norton 360 6.0
February 17, 2012
· Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Consumer and Trade Commission Web Sites, Posts Anti-ACTA Video
· iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they're getting it
February 20, 2012
· Ex-girlfriend sex videos, browser plugins and Facebook survey scams
· Tech 'firsts' that made a President's day
February 21, 2012
· Pixelmator 2.0.2 released on the Mac App Store
· Ulysses 2.1.2 released on the Mac App Store
· Future Chrome version may choose your passwords, and change them when you've been hacked
· Updated: FTC dropped security requirements from contract for sites hit by Anonymous
· Microsoft says nope to Office for iPad, for now
· Google sued by Safari user over cookie debate
February 22, 2012
· Verizon 4G LTE outage hitting parts of the US (Updated)
· Wi-Fi Passpoint standard could end hotspot sign-on hassles
· YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed
· Last chance to tell Google to forget you
· Mac OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Performance
February 23, 2012
· Apple, Google, And Others Now Required To Give App Privacy Details Before You Download
· Flashback Mac trojan is back with new and improved exploit strategy
February 24, 2012
· Comparing today's computers to 1995's
· A judge in California has awarded $850 to an iPhone user who sued AT&T for throttling
February 25, 2012
· WiFi Scanner 1.5.2 released on the Mac App Store
· Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion #2
· Dish Network to close 500 Blockbuster stores
· Microsoft's branding crisis comes to a head with Windows 8
· Free Video Game Rentals This Week at Redbox
February 26, 2012
· Google search now shows upcoming concerts, helps you find the next gig
· Adobe briefly posts Photoshop Touch for iPad
· FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling
· Court upholds Fifth Amendment, prevents forced decryption of data
· Apple Prepares To Pull Evi From App Store
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February 27, 2012
· WikiLeaks: Stratfor Confidential Emails To Be Published By The Millions
· Pogue on Foxconn: hey, at least it's not rice farming or prostitution!
· Adobe releases Photoshop Touch for iPad on App Store
· Dell CEO: we're 'not really a PC company'
· Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: a Preview of how Apple is enhancing the file system with iCloud
February 28, 2012
· Google offers $1 million reward to hackers who exploit Chrome
· NASCAR driver tweets from car, gains 100,000 followers
· Pakistan's plan for the "coldblooded murder of the Internet"
February 29, 2012
· Interpol coordinates arrests of Anonymous hackers
· Dropzone 2.1 released on the Mac App Store
· Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview
· Kim Dotcom Remains Free on Bail, As U.S. Appeal Fails
· Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Safari 5.2 gets a simplified user interface with new sharing features






