PUBLIC servants sending private emails are exposing government agencies to hackers and WikiLeaks-style security threats and could be targeted by spies, the Auditor-General warned yesterday.
The Australian National Audit Office wants government agencie…
iOS 4.3.1 is expected to roll out in the coming weeks but that hasn’t stopped the update from leaking prematurely to a handful of developers and media outlets. BGR for one has just reported that one of their Apple connects have installed iOS 4.3.1 to t…
Most people following video game console manufacturer Sony’s ongoing cross-continental legal struggle with hackers have become familiar with a few names: George Hotz, graf_chokolo and the hacker collective fail0verflow. All three are currently b…
iPad 2 owners waiting for an official jailbreak can breathe easy knowing that a solution may be in the works thanks to the Chronic Dev-Team It’s hard to say right now, but the most outspoken member of the team, p0sixninja (aka Joshua Hill) recently pos…
Despite all of Nintendo’s attempts to block R4 flash carts from working on their DS handhelds, the hackers and pirates always seemed to prevail. For every firmware update and hardware revision Nintendo pushed out to squash game pirating, the hac…
George Hotz, the man accused of illegally hacking the PlayStation 3, has reportedly fled the country to South America, according to a filing by Sony.
In the filing, posted to the Justia Web site, Sony Computer Entertainment of America claims Hotz, als…
In its 2010 annual report, recorded music’s global trade body said that the industry would “struggle to survive unless we address the fundamental problem of piracy.” Just how “fundamental” a problem is that piracy? Not very, as new research suggests th…
Rackspace’s chief OpenStacker has quit the company, saying the ‘Linux-of-the-cloud’ initiative is not functioning properly as a community project and that it deserves full independence from Rackspace.
After just 18 months with Rackspace, OpenStack chi…
