HP wanted to sell its mobile operating system WebOS for $ 1.2 billion. The reports of the online service now to Venture Beat, citing a source familiar with the sale negotiations. This is the same amount, the HP 2010 had paid for the takeover of the ailing manufacturer Palm. Apparently the company was not willing [...]

A hacker group that agrees Anonymous belong, has released data from the site SpecialForces.com. These sold military equipment. Despite the encryption could hacktivists allegedly 14 000 passwords and transmit data on the credit cards of customers from 8000. In an announcement on pastebin it says: “As a continuation of the weeklong festivities, the global financial [...]

Shortly before the new year, Microsoft has released a rare unscheduled security update. MS11-100 is also the 100th and also the last security update that comes out of Redmond this year. Its publication made weeks before the regular monthly “Patch Tuesday”. Microsoft found itself in a rapid reaction induced between the holidays, because already several [...]

The Chinese Alibaba Group has secured the support of a lobbying group in the United States. This is considered a step toward a takeover of Yahoo. Recorded as an input of this week, a contract was signed with the Duberstein Group in Washington. It is headed by Ronald Reagan’s former chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. [...]

Kaspersky reports that it has completed an analysis of computer viruses and Duque Stuxnet. As suspected from the start, both from the same team. Kaspersky but could also identify the used programming environment, the “Tilded” means. The security researchers found seven drivers that they deem in any other platform used. .. “This platform could be [...]

Tactical Network Solutions has released a tool on Google Code called Reaver, which exploits discovered by Stefan Viehboeck gap and shows Wi-Fi passwords of Access Points and wireless NAT routers in plain text, even if WPA or WPA2 encryption used. Technical details of the vulnerability of the ZDNet article called “WPA2 cracked: How does the [...]

Apple has with the U.S. Patent Office an application made on a technique to standby mode of a mobile device to identify people using the front camera. If the owner of the equipment including, it turns on automatically upon request. Apple calls its system “low-threshold facial recognition”. It is not as computationally expensive as the [...]

iPhone and Chronic Dev Team have updated versions of the tools presented yesterday for an Untethered Jailbreak. To measure an error in the program code is responsible for causing the problems with the built-in IOS Startup Service “launchctl”. The new version of redsn0w, and the program offered in the Cydia Store Corona iOS 5.0.1 Untether [...]

In December, Amazon bought more than one million customers a week for a total of over four million units of the Kindle-growing range. The online merchant, as always, betrayed no exact figures for individual products. However, he also introduced the new Kindle Tablet of Fire as his best-selling product, followed by the e-reader Kindle and [...]

Facebook for Windows Messenger (screenshot: ZDNet) Facebook has provided its Messenger application for Windows officially available for download. So the social network reacted to the fact that they had already been leaked. The program has the version number 2.0.4373.0 and is dated 22 December 2011. A version of this is npFbDesktopPlugin.dll belonging to the application [...]

default in many wireless routers enabled Wi-Fi Protected Set-up (WPS) has a security vulnerability. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned earlier that it facilitates brute force attacks dramatically. This vulnerability could potentially affect millions of consumers since almost all are now Wi-Fi router with WPS protocol in the sale. The Federal Office for Information [...]

Samsung leads, according to recent figures from comScore in the U.S. market for mobile phones to grow, but Apple is catching up. 25.6 percent of U.S. mobile customers used in the period September to November, a Samsung model – 0.3 percentage points higher than the prior quarter. Apple is at 11.2 percent but only in [...]

Google’s main product is the search engine and its main competitor, Microsoft, even if Facebook is gnawing on some levels to its market share. The Chairman Eric Schmidt said in an interview recorded a few weeks ago, but now published only on C-SPAN was. . Schmidt said: ‘Today we have a clear competitor, Microsoft with [...]

Karsten Nohl of the Security Research Labs at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress introduced a method (PDF), as hackers can impersonate a foreign mobile phone. This can cause some calls to premium numbers (0900) or fee-based SMS services (send to the A3 XXXXX), without being the victim in possession of mobile phone or SIM card. [...]

Android and iOS have experienced during the Christmas holidays both a rush of registrations. Fortune writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been calculated on the basis of figures supplied by Flurry that Apple was ahead by about 1.6 million. According to market researchers, Android and iOS came on 25 Together in December to 6.8 million activations. Andy [...]