Tag: website
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Anonymous & LulzSec appeal for PayPal account closures
Forsaking the usual route of intrusion and crippling of high profile targets it seems the mischief making hacktivist pair Anonymous and LulzSec – together forming AntiSec – are taking a backwards step in latest operation against the online payment transaction site PayPal. They posted an appeal on a hacker-safe forum asking us to close our…
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Google now alerts users of malware infections
“The Internet brings remarkable benefits to society. Unfortunately, some people use it for harm and their own gain at the expense of others” says Google, who have been busy again – this time routing out infectious malware which has been coming up ever more frequently in our day-to-day web browsing. Identifying unusual search data and…
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Lady Gaga website hacked – Names and e-mail addresses stolen
It would appear web-savvy songstress Lady Gaga is having a Bad Romance with her online presence lately, having already had her YouTube channel suspended (and thankfully restored) over a copyright row, now there are reports of her official website having been broken into with thousands of member details said to have been stolen. “Fortunately” no financial information…
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The Pope launches Vatican news website in first tweet (from an iPad)
Controversial religious figure Pope Benedict XVI this week posted his first tweet from online micro-blog site Twitter – even showing off a little tech savvy by making his post from an Apple iPad (with only a little help) and declaring “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers…
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Hacking group LulzSec calls it quits
The notorious hacking group who has been behind the attack of several high-profile websites over the last couple of months have decided to disband. A statement was published on a file sharing website saying that the groups “planned 50-day cruise has expired”. Part of the statement reads “Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and…
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HP TouchPad goes up for pre-order
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The iPad 2’s latest contender is coming in the form of the HP TouchPad, which has just gone up for pre-order through the Hewlett Packard website. Hewlett Packard’s tablet will go nose-to-nose with the iPad 2 in price – with a 16GB version priced at £399 and a full-fat 32GB model weighing in at £479.…
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Vodafone to supply thinner Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 in the UK
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The Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 is coming to Vodafone network in the UK. Having previously told us they’d be stocking stocky 10.1v model the Vodafone website is updated and is now showing new slimmed down 10.1 model will be up for sale “coming soon”. In February it was announced that Vodafone would be first to…
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Another bad day for Sony: Part 2 – Playstation Store customers suffer errors!
Today’s second dose of bad news for Team Sony – This one affects you gamers.. A number of Gadget Helpline blog readers have brought to our attention an error they’re experiencing when trying to get back onto the Playstation Store to grab the bountiful goodies on offer as part of Sony’s attempt to win back…
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Another bad day for Sony: Part 1 – Sony Pictures website hacked!
Just when you thought it was safe to be a Sony supporter a tag-team double-whammy of bad news comes up and ruins your day – again. Firstly.. A day after the restoration of the company’s online services seemed to be nearing its completion reports emerge that a different hacking group has managed to breach another…
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Latest Apple iPhone 5 Rumour – 8MP camera and “SIM-free” design
Big claims for the next incarnation of Apple’s iPhone (5 or 4s) circulating today from Japanese tech site Macotakara – the site who’s previous predictions for the iPhone range and the iPad 2 have been more hit than miss. We’ve seen that Apple look set to utilise a smaller SIM, allowing a thinner design but the…
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Skype pulled after outage – Gadget Helpline has the solution!
Skype servers are currently taking a “short break” according to claims on the official website for the worldwide video calling and chat service. We at the Gadget Helpline started suffering with our own person-to-person communications with the Skype tantrum booting us out of chat, with log-in attempts prompting error messages to appear – and it…
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Limewire trial ends with $105m payout to RIAA
No pun intended, but this is a bitter end to probably the second most famous, and certainly one of the longest running file sharing and hosting court proceedings ever, after The Pirate Bay trial. Limewire submitted to the cruelty and persecution of the court’s ruthless charter of no-mercy-for-hosting-sites in late 2010, a precedent that completely…