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Wednesday, 20-February-2013 14:05:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Mpot sent in this article about a shadowy Chinese hacker group. The group, known as Advanced Persistent Threat” (APT1) was outed today in a 60-page report by security firm Mandiant, which has been tracking the army unit for six years. The company also released a technical, step-by-step video (below) of how one of the hackers steals information. “The sheer scale and duration of sustained attacks against such a wide set of industries from a singularly identified group based in China leaves little doubt about the organization behind APT1,” concludes the report.
He also spotted a story about someone tracking down their camera as having been used in a review before being sold as new. Both cameras were sold as new, but the second one I received came in the wrong box. I bought a “body only” (just the camera, no lens), while the box was for the camera + lens package. This wasn’t too surprising, as retailers often split up the camera + lens packages to meet demand and/or make a slightly bigger profit. No big deal. I remember when I first turned the camera on, the shutter count was already around 60, which was a little odd, but again no big deal. I figured maybe Canon took some test shots or something, who knows.
Here's a transparent smartphone concept from Jason. As he notes, it looks nightmarishly easy to lose. The glass is opaque when powered off, but it appearance transforms when electricity is applied. According to Polytron's website, "the liquid crystal molecules line up, the incident light passes through, and Polyvision looks clear." Technically, the glass design isn't completely see-through — the batteries and SIM card remain visible, as does the power switch up top.
MaximumPC list some old bits of PC hardware which were good bang for buck back in the day. I think I've owned about half of them over the years. :) Dual-proc men (and women) have always gotten gouged on price—you literally had to pay for the privilege of running two processors. Abit’s BP6 shattered that price lock by giving you a dual-proc board that let you run and overclock two Socket 370 Celerons—a config the Celery was never supposed to support!
If you've had trouble with McAfee products on OS X recently, you're not alone. A certificate revocation list [CRL] hosted by Apple Worldwide developer servers lists the reason for the cancellation as a "key compromise," but McAfee officials said they never lost control of the sensitive certificate which is used to prove applications are legitimate releases. The revocation date shows as February 6, meaning that for seven days now, customers have had no means to validate McAfee applications they want to install on Macs.
Techgage upgraded to an SSD, and had some dramas. In advance of the busiest season at the office I work at, I wondered if adding an SSD to the slightly-aging Dell I use would offer a considerable gain in performance, and thus make the onslaught of work easier to deal with. Little did I realize, upgrading a Dell business PC requires a lot of patience, planning and snacks. I realised last night that I haven't reinstalled this PC since about 2009.. which is probably why it's so flippin' slow lately.
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