Hackers can tap USB devices in new attacks, researcher warns USB devices such as keyboards, thumb-drives and mice can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher has revealed. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, noted that hackers could load… Read More »
Comcast Confessions: when every call is a sales call When AOL executive and Comcast customer Ryan Block recently tried to cancel his internet service, he ended up in a near-yelling match with a customer service representative who spent 18 minutes trying to talk him out of it. Rep: I’m just trying to figure out here what it is about Comcast… Read More »
Amazon Now Has a Create-Your-Own 3D-Printing Store Amazon has just opened a new 3D Printing Store, which allows customers to customize and then purchase “more than 200 unique print-on-demand products.” Customer can take their pick from a wide variety of products to tweak: from cufflinks to credit card holders, iPhone cases to… err, custom bobbleheads. The amount of customization available on each… Read More »
Plans leaked for Windows 9 Windows 8 wasn’t exactly a runaway success; however, Microsoft’s fortunes might be set to improve with the launch of Windows 9. Exact release details aren’t available just yet, but it is rumored that Windows 9 will be released sometime in 2015; probably April, while other sources state that it will be released in… Read More »
Shoes That Tell You Where to Go Many of us have become so dependent on digital map tools — relying on specific, real-time instructions from Google or Siri to direct us, step by step, from point A to point B — that there is nostalgia for physical maps floating around out there. But for those of you who believe there’s… Read More »
Snowden: The NSA Has Seen You Naked Over the course of a seven-hour interview conducted with The Guardian in Moscow, Edward Snowden offered a glimpse into his life in Russia and said he’s game for being chained up in military prison if that’s what the future holds for him. The most interesting revelation Snowden disclosed, however, was about… Read More »