There have been a couple of theories as to why Siri hasn’t made an appearance on devices other than the iPhone 4S. Is it simply to shift more units of the flagship iPhone, or is it because the 4S packs a custom noise reduction chip? In any event, it hasn’t stopped enterprising hackers from porting the personal assistant to other iOS devices, and now there’s a relatively simple way of doing it yourself.
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i4Siri brings Siri to jailbroken iOS 5 devices
Parrot AR.Drone controlled via wearable Android headset
Ever since first coming to the market, Parrot's AR.Drone has found a wide variety of uses thanks to its agile nature combined with a camera able to pipe video directly to your smartphone. Controlling the drone and seeing video on such small screens hasn’t always been ideal, though. Thomas Sohmers, tech geek and inventor, has come up with an alternate method of controlling the drone while keeping an eye on the feed.
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Google patches critical Chrome flaw 24 hours after first exploit
Google's Chrome web browser has been one of the only browsers to make it out of the annual Pwn2Own contest without being cracked. That record changed this year after Google offered up a total prize package of $1 million to be given out to the developers who could exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome. A Russian student was able to exploit a vulnerability in Chrome, which won the hacker $60,000 courtesy of Google.
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Anonymous retaliates, hacks Panda Security’s website
Yesterday we learned of the arrests of five members of hacker group LulzSec, seemingly brought down by their own leader working in tandem with the FBI. Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka “Sabu”, was arrested back in June 2011 and is thought to have been working with the FBI ever since. In response, members claiming to be part of Anonymous have hacked and defaced Panda Security’s PandaLabs website.
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Hackers stole 50K track Michael Jackson back catalog from Sony
Back in Michael Jackson's heyday in the 80s, I was a fan of the Thriller album that you couldn't seem to get away from. Jackson's later albums didn't really interest me, so I never followed much of his later works. I certainly didn't know the Jackson had a 50,000 track back catalog that Sony had purchased from the late performers' estate for $250 million last year.
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Trustwave finds most common business-compliant password is Password1
It appears that even requiring users to implement hard-to-hack password requirements doesn't prevent them from being as generic as possible. In a study of more than 2 million systems, Trustwave found that, not surprisingly, the most common password was "password," or some variation thereof. And among systems that required an upper-case letter and a number, Password1 was the top choice.
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WikiLeaks steals, publishes e-mails from US think tank
The latest notch in WikiLeaks's bedpost appears to the Stratfor, an intelligence analysis firm that has provided reports on everything from politics and economics to military issues. The company offers a subscription-based service to offer this information to risk managers, and in its line of work has gotten its hands on a lot of information that should be confidential.
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Best Buy faces criminal investigation for pornography on display TV
Best Buy has apologized for the fact that pornography managed to show up on a 55-inch TV in its store two days in a row. The retailer said it did not know who was responsible for the salacious content, but said it was due to someone hacking into the store's Wi-Fi network. One shopper was quoted as describing the images that appeared on the screen as "extremely, extremely pornographic." A police report was even filed by an offended customer.
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Symantec pcAnywhere hack exposes 200,000 PCs: analyst
Even though software company Symantec released a patch for its pcAnywhere program after it was infiltrated by hackers, as many as 200,000 computers are still running the infected version, including thousands that may have access to credit card and other sensitive data. These numbers are according to Rapid7, which surveyed the Net for computers that were running unpatched versions of the software.
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Barnes & Noble Nook Touch gets ‘fast refresh’ hack
Hackers come in all shapes and sizes, and so do the devices they toil away on to try to gain some sort of Internet fame or just personal satisfaction. In that context, the Nook Touch isn't exactly the place for a hotbed of hacking activity but someone has still managed to pull off an exploit that's pretty interesting. The hack involves exponentially increasing the e-reader's refresh rate.
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Anonymous reveals Cybersecurity Act of 2012
This week it appears that the NSA has brought forth warnings of the hacker group Anonymous' ability to take down the power grid at a most opportune time, according to none other than Anonymous. While earlier this week it was warned by the NSA that Anonymous might be targeting the US power grid, the hacker group has noted that they'd do no such thing, as "there are ppl on life support/other vital services that rely on it." In addition, the group has brought attention today to a new bill that's looking to get passed in the first part of the year: the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
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Transformer Prime bootloader unlock now available!
This week the folks at ASUS have granted the world with a simple unlock tool for their most excellent tablet yet, the Transformer Prime. Since this first in its class for many reasons device was released, developers and so-called hackers have ben working on plans for what they're going to do with the Transformer Prime once its bootloader was unlocked, and now the fun can commence. As is true with any bootloader unlock on an Android device specifically, going forward with the process will void your contract and will make your device no longer the device it once was.
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