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The Best Game Play and Trailers of E3 2012
E3 is done and dusted for another year. But what a year it has been with huge announcements and brilliant new game trailers and game play released. We have picked the best of E3 2012 and included videos of the visually stunning game play. There are 10 games on the list, but the release of Nintendo Wii U also makes our list and takes our total Top Ten to Eleven!
Let us know if we missed any good ones in the comments below and we will update the article.
11: Resident Evil 6
Originally slated for worldwide release on November 20th this year, it’s...
Next-Gen Crypto? Owned!
The Next Generation of Cryptography is the 923bit pairing-based cryptography and should take approximately several hundred thousand years to crack. Therefore government agencies across the globe, along with large multi-nationals are adopting the new standard.
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In fact it took less than 149 days. Fujitsu Laboratories said on Monday it has successfully cracked the next-gen crypto. Working with Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University, Fujitsu was able to complete a cryptanalysis...
Give a Nigerian Prince a Hand?
I am barrister prince ugo a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr Martin,a national of your country, who used to work with shell development company in Nigeria and as well a one time secret agent in transferring of money overseas Before his death On the 21st of April 2007 {my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Badagry Express Road in which all occupants of the motor died}.
My client deposited the sum of ($36 Million) in a one of our local Bank here in Nigeria for himself, with the hope of...
Russian Beauty Goes Viral
During the TV broadcast of the EURO 2012 game between Russian and Czech Republic, the camera cut to the crowd and focused on a stunner.
Clearly a Russian supporter, with the local flag painted on her face, Elia, (the name of the shy girl who was quickly located by ubiquitous journalists), was watching her team winning, Russia being 2-1 up at the time, when she caught her image on the big screen.
What followed was a smile, and an act of shyness, that has gone viral. At the time of writing the Youtube video had over 1.4 million views!
Check it out...
Microsoft’s New Tablet is Pretty
Microsoft has announced a new tablet, they are stealing the name from their other product the Surface, which was previously a large table top touch screen.
Don’t tell anybody, but the new Surface tablet is downright pretty. Check out the video below, which currently has over 1.8million views on YouTube.
A unique feature is the ability to “flip out” a stand, so that it gets some support when sitting on the table. It comes with a detachable, super thin keyboard , which will come in different colours to allow you to customise your version...
Ex-Anonymous Hacker Leaks Card holder Details
An ex Member of the Anonymous Hacking Group, Jeremy, aka Reckz0r released a number of private user details to the web, purportedly hacked from banks across the globe. Reckz0r claims the data dump is a small portion of over 50gb of data he has hacked from 79 banks he has been targeting for 3 months.
Reckz0r claims to be a hacktivist that has been hacking since 2002. Originally creating hacking scripts with Python, he decided to join the hacking group Anonymous. “I decided to be a part of Anonymous, I decided to fight for freedom, against the...
Hacked Games Get Fragged!
Rockstar the maker of a number of huge game franchises, including Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto V (one of the top ten games of all time) and Max Payne 3, announced that they are coming down hard on the cheaters.
The miscreants (their word, not ours), will be isolated in to a cheaters world, where they can fight the other cheaters at their leisure. “Anyone discovered to have utilised hacked saves, modded video games, or other exploits to gain an unfair advantage in Max Payne 3 Multiplayer, or to circumvent the leaderboards will be quarantined...
Security Essentials
I have been in the IT Security industry for over dozen years, before Facebook was popular, before Amazon was popular and even before Google was popular. Over the years the definition of what is secure has changed. It use to be install an Anti-Virus product and you are good to go. But now days as the internet become a must have we need to understand what security is essential for a safe browsing environment and what we can live without.
IT Security is different for the individual than it is for an enterprise, however a hacking script scanning the...
The Empire Strikes Back!
There is a new trend in IT security, Active Defence. The name sounds innocuous enough, but in reality it is a pivot point in Information Security. The concept is simple, strike back. When a hacker attacks you, you attack the hacker.
Frustrated by the inability for the law to take actions against attackers from across the globe an increasing number of organisations are taking the law in to their own hands by taking retaliatory action.
The reprisals have a broad range from delaying and diversion tactics to full on black hat responses. It has been...
One Giant Leap for Mankind
There have been many great achievements by man over the last sixty years in regards to the final frontier, space. First man in space, 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, first man on the moon, 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong. But mankind is about to take one further step in its conquest of space, sending its technology out of our solar system in to interstellar space.
Voyager 1, launched 5 September 1977 is currently 11 billion miles (18 billion kms) away from Earth, travelling at 38,000 miles per hour (.00005 light speed, 61,000 kms). At that speed it...