January 27, 2012
Sometimes the past can come back to bite you. That?s exactly what is happening to Symantec right now. The company is dealing with a security issue related to a source code leak that took place in 2006. The breach, which was not fully disclosed until January of this year, included the source code of Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security and Norton SystemWorks.
January 13, 2012
Today I’ll attempt to teach you a little bit about Shift Registers. These are a fairly important part of Arduino programming, basically because they expand the number of outputs you can use, in exchange for only 3 control pins. You can also daisy-chain shift registers together in order to get even more outputs. This is a significant jump in difficulty from previous tutorials.
January 6, 2012
When the Kindle Fire was introduced by Amazon one of the main features highlighted was its browser, called Silk. Unlike most browsers, Silk uses remote servers to handle portions of page rendering, which is supposed to improve browsing speeds. Benchmarks so far have indicated that the feature is hit-or-miss, but should it be improved, the benefits could become significant.
December 26, 2011
Hacking the servers of a major online video game seems to have become a popular pastime for online scoundrels, perhaps because they’re guaranteed to find a great deal of information about users on file. Trion, developer of the popular MMO Rift, has now joined the ranks of companies forced to send an apologetic email out to subscribers.
July 6, 2011
It’s not been a good time for Sony’s Public Relations in the past few months with not only one but two breaches of their Playstation Network, and they didn’t exactly help their cause when they decided to delay telling their subscribers about the intrusions. They eventually admitted that customer information was out there in the wild.
May 27, 2011
Last time, I introduced you to Kinect hacking on the PC and the drivers involved, as well as a basic zombie survival game demo. While killing zombies is awesome, it’s time we moved onto doing something actually useful. So I’d like to show you the Kinemote application, as well as how to use it to control both your mouse for general Windows tasks, and Xbox Media Center.
