Foxconn, which is under the news due to allegations of poor working conditions in its factories, is reportedly now the victim of a hacking attack. 9to5mac is reporting that Hacker group name as SwaggSec just released a dump of Faxconn internal information which even includes a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. The group made a file of 6.04MB available earlier this evening, first on Demonoid followed by on The Pirate Bay, which contains longin and password details of Foxconn’s...
Conglomerate Honeywell, the company which develops thermostats, had recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, the developer of the innovative smart thermostat alleging the infringement of seven Honeywell patents related to its thermostat technology. In response to this, Nest released a statement stating, “vigorously defend itself against Honeywell’s...
Hacker group, Anonymous strikes again, this time it make a big bang by hacking the email accounts of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s aides. The hacker group hacked some 78 username and password combinations for the accounts and 56 of those accounts used the password “12345”, while five others added just a “6” to that string. According to Foreign Policy, few of the emails contained incriminating info, though the media has latched onto a message sent between two press aides suggesting some advice on manipulating American audiences...
Apple which recently accounted its highest quarterly earnings of record $46.3 billion in revenue, the company is still finding itself somewhere in reports of labor abuses among its suppliers – first NY Times reported Apple’s harsh working conditions at company’s component suppliers in China – and then followed by CNN published a video of journalist Stan Grant...
According to TechNet, the “App Economy” has created an estimated 466,000 jobs in the United States, since from the time when Apple’s iPhone was introduced. The results was revealed after the study and research conducting during the period of 90-day ending December 31, 2011, where the group identified roughly 44,000 non-duplicated ads for computer and mathematical...
The software giant Microsoft’s next big thing – Windows 8 “Consumer Preview” is all on the way is setting near release and the company is working towards giving the final touch to the preinstalled application list. According to The Verge, Microsoft is in plan to bundle-up the things in a number of Metro style applications. List includes: Camera Messaging Mail Calendar SkyDrive People Photos Video Music We...
Virgin Media announced its 2011 quarter results with £4 billion ($6.3 billion) in revenue for the year and made its first ever profit with a tidy £76 million ($120 million). Total revenue in the fourth quarter was up 2.0% to £1.0 billion (about $1.59 billion), as growth in consumer segment cable revenue and business segment revenue were partially offset by reductions...
If you still able to put a bit pressure on your mind and able to memorize about Android 2.3 update for the Infuse 4G recently – there is an add-on – Samsung has now revealed that it is on hold due to some unspecified issues. “We currently have put a hold on the update while we are developing a fix,” reads a note on the company’s support page for the Infuse 4G, indicating that updates might take some time to resume. AT&T has confirmed to Android Central that indeed the update’s on hold and that “we...
South Korean Electronics Giant Samsung which earlier reported record earnings for the fourth quarter last year results with a 17% rise in profits in the final three months of 2011 has seen stronger TV sales so far this year and even plan to introduce cheaper TVs, as lower-end models results in higher demand. “As long as there’s demand, we’re open...
As we reported earlier about the failed email negotiations over a $50,000 payout to the YamaTough hacker to destroy the code, hacker released the source code on Tuesday for antivirus firm Symantec’s pcAnywhere utility; raising fears that other could probably find out the security pitch in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers. “Symantec was prepared for the code to be posted at some point and has developed and distributed a series of patches since January 23rd to protect our users against known vulnerabilities,”...
