Market Unlocker Makes Location Restricted Market and Amazon Apps Available to Users in Any Country: Android (Rooted) – If you live outside of the United States, you know how difficult it can be to get some of the hottest new apps that are inexplicably US-only, and you know the pain of not being able to use the Amazon App Store at all. Market Unlocker is an Android app for rooted devices that makes your phone look to the Android Market and to the Amazon App Store like a US-based Verizon Wireless phone, so you can browse, buy, and download apps to your heart’s content.
What Hardware Upgrade Will Best Speed Up My PC? – I only have $X to spend, so I can only make one upgrade to my PC. Should I upgrade my RAM/hard drive/processor/video card or my RAM/hard drive/processor/video card? Which one will give me the biggest performance boost?
Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC – Summary: The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is launching in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress on February 29.
Attackers Using Fake Google Analytics Code to Redirect Users to Black Hole Exploit Kit – Injecting malicious code into the HTML used on legitimate Web sites is a key part of the infection lifecycle for many attack crews, and they often disguise and obfuscate their code to make it more difficult to analyze or so it appears to be legitimate code. The latest instance of this technique has seen attackers employing code that is meant to look like Google Analytics snippets, but instead sends victims off to a remote site that’s hosting the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
Extortion failed – Anonymous posts Symantec source code – Anonymous activists have released source code for Symantec’s PCAnywhere onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website after an extortion attempt apparently failed.
Keylogging student caught hacking college grades – A student from Bucks College Edwin T.Kim, 31, turned to desperate measures in an attempt to improve his college grades. Kim used his keylogger software by installing it on a university computer in the administration office, removing it several days later after the information he required had been harvested.
Copyright Lawsuit Targets Owners of Non-secure Wireless Networks – A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.
Company News:
New Social Site Pinterest Attracts Enthusiasm, Scrutiny – Just as it enjoys an initial surge of popularity, a new social networking site called Pinterest is also experiencing its first bout of controversy. Observers are accusing the site of secretly embedding code in user content to generate revenue.
ManageEngine to Launch Mobile Device Management Services at Mobile World Congress – ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it will launch mobile device management (MDM) services for Mobile World Congress. The move empowers both established and emerging enterprises to take control of their exploding mobile device ecosystems and manage them from the same pane of glass they use to manage traditional infrastructure and applications.
Sprint Losses Hit $1.3B over iPhone Costs, Subscribers Fewer than Expected – Sprint Nextel losses rise over subsidies paid to Apple for iPhone sales, but fewer than expected subscribers offset hemorrhaging.
eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and User Experience Platform-as-a-Service (UXPaaS) – eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, announced general availability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new release of eXo Platform is designed for organizations that want a cloud-enabled solution for creating and managing next-generation portal-based sites that facilitate engagements between colleagues, customers or partners, and can easily integrate with existing enterprise applications, policies and procedures.
Google to Pay Users to Track Their Movements Online – Amid widespread concern about its new privacy policies, Google is now facing criticism over an offer to give users Amazon gift certificates if they open their Web movements to the company in a program called Screenwise.
Off Topic (Sort of):
The 25 Documents You Need Before You Die – It isn’t enough simply to sign a bunch of papers establishing an estate plan and other end-of-life instructions. You also have to make your heirs aware of them and leave the documents where they can find them. Consider: At least 10 states have been investigating whether some of the country’s largest insurers are failing to pay out unclaimed life policies to beneficiaries. California and Florida have held public hearings on the issue in recent weeks.
Researchers Crack Satellite Phone Ciphers – Researchers at a German university have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the ability to intercept conversations that are meant to be private. The attacks on the GMR-1 and GMR-2 standards are thought to be the first such work against the satellite phone ciphers.
Mandatory disclosure for companies selling IT security solutions – Truth, in the context of security software involves first informing consumers in plain English about the actual threats to security and privacy a given solution can actually thwart. Some of the biggest name security products don’t actually protect consumers from what they think they do. As a result, consumers end up purchasing products that they can only assume will protect them in a general sense because the specifics are not fully explained.
Why Windows 8 matters for real work, and so will Windows 9 – Listen, forget about smartphones and tablets for five minutes, will ya? I want to talk to you about real computers, computers that do actual work, not just play Angry Birds and help you check in when you’re at Starbucks again. In fact, I want to talk to you about Windows computers. The bottom line is this: to do real work with real computers you need a real operating system. You need Windows. Nothing else, really, will do.
Today’s Quote:
“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”
- Steve Jobs
Today’s Free Downloads:
TrueCrypt 7.1a – TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention.
360Amigo System Speedup Free 1.2.1 – Think your PC is slow? 360Amigo System Speedup can quickly identify and fix a wide range of errors and speeds up your slow PC. Both beginners and experienced users will enjoy the available features and options.
