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Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, NYT Through Registrar Melbourne IT — The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the domain name servers of two of Twitter's sites, and a third appears to have been redirected to servers hosted by the SEA.
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Tweets: @official_sea16, @official_sea16, @nyteileen, @mattjay, @samfbiddle, @nytimes, @laurahazardowen, @panzer, @chaughney, @pourmecoffee, @steved3 and @prwerdel
See also Mediagazer| Christine Haughney / New York Times: |
Times Web Site Affected by External Hacking Attack — The New York Times Web site was unavailable to readers on Tuesday afternoon following an attack on the company's domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The attack also required employees of The Times to stop sending out sensitive e-mails.
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GigaOM, New York Times, Domain Name Wire, ABC News, Gizmodo and The Verge
Tweets: @mattboggie, @elanazak, @mattblaze, @nycjim and @antderosa
See also Mediagazer| Twitter Status: |
twitter service issue — At 20:49 UTC, our DNS provider experienced an issue in which it appears DNS records for various organizations were modified, including one of Twitter's domains used for image serving, twimg.com. Viewing of images and photos was sporadically impacted.
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The Next Web, New York Times, Engadget, SC Magazine and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @newsbreaker and @anonopsse
See also Mediagazer| Michael Lee / ZDNet: |
Hackers had Melbourne IT reseller credentials to attack NYT, Twitter — Summary: No sophisticated attack was required to attack The New York Times and Twitter, as hackers already had valid credentials to allow them to change DNS entries. — Michael Lee — A Melbourne IT reseller account …
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See also Mediagazer| Colin Stretch / Facebook: |
Global Government Requests Report — Transparency and trust are core values at Facebook. We strive to embody them in all aspects of our services, including our approach to responding to government data requests. We want to make sure that the people who use our service understand the nature …
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Tweets: @nickbilton, @jeffjohnroberts, @coracurrier, @nikhilnarayanan and @paulszoldra
| Michael Kassner / TechRepublic: |
Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means — There were doubts about being able to reverse engineer heavily-obfuscated applications written in Python. Two researchers have removed all doubt by reverse engineering the immensely popular Dropbox client.
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Tweets: @dangillmor, @pirateorg, @cperciva and @cgpgrey
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Parallels Access puts Mac and PC apps on your iPad for $79.99 — Parallels is best known for its virtualization software that lets Mac owners seamlessly run Microsoft's Windows OS. But today the company is taking up another mission: it's attempting to bring desktop apps to the iPad …
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| John Martellaro / The Mac Observer: |
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google drops Nexus 4 price, now starts at $199 — The Nexus 4 just got a lot cheaper. The company's flagship Android phone is now available for a full $100 less than it was just hours ago. The 8GB model is on sale through the Google Play Store for $199 with a contract, while the 16GB model is $249.
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| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
The CODE Keyboard — What would you do, if you could do anything? — I don't mean in a fantasy superhero way, but in terms of resources. If someone told you that you now had the resources to attempt to make one thing happen in the world, one real thing, what would that be?| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iPhone ‘Reuse and Recycle’ trade-in program detailed, begins rolling out August 30th — Yesterday, we reported that Apple is gearing up to launch its iPhone trade-in program in September. The program will allow an iPhone user to exchange an older iPhone model for a new iPhone at a discounted price.
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Los Angeles Times, Macworld, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Benzinga, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, ABC News, App Advice, It's a Gadget, LAPTOP Magazine and Business Insider. Tweets: @jyarow. Thanks:@luminaryws
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV updated with Vevo, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Weather Channel, Smithsonian apps — Today, Apple has issued an over-the-air update to the Apple TV that brings several new content apps. Notably, in line with expectations, an app for the Vevo Music Video service has arrived.
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VEVO.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, AllThingsD, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, IntoMobile, Engadget, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechSpot, The Verge, Yahoo! News, everythingiCafe, PadGadget, TechHive, TechCrunch and I4U News
Tweets: @chartier, @pkafka, @reneritchie, @pkafka and @parislemon
See also Mediagazer| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Teardown Reveals Google's Moto X Costs $221 to Build — As the first smartphone to be completely designed since Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, there are a lot of expectations riding on the Moto X. — The phone, now considered the flagship of the Motorola lineup, is getting noticed for being different.
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Forbes, PhoneArena and TechnoBuffalo
| Bloomberg: |
Twitter Hires Commerce Chief to Add Shopping Via Tweets — Twitter Inc. hired Nathan Hubbard, the former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce, part of a push to enable shopping via short postings on its social website. — Hubbard, 38, started at San Francisco-based Twitter this week …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Verge, internetretailer.com, AllThingsD, Marketing Land and Tech Trader Daily
Tweets: @nathanchubbard, @mikeisaac, @nytimesbits, @fromedome, @mikeisaac, @rsarver and @sg
See also Mediagazer| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
With no early Windows 8.1 RTM bits, what's a developer to do? — Summary: Microsoft won't allow new Windows 8.1 apps to be published Windows Store until October 18, nor will the company be providing RTM bits early to devs for testing. So what should devs do now?
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The Windows Blog, WindowsITPro, TechCrunch, Computerworld, CodenameWindows, SuperSite for Windows and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @monkbent
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Fires Back After Box Steps On Its Turf, Boosts SkyDrive Pro Storage To 25 GB — This is the real storage wars. Today Microsoft announced that it has increased the storage capacity of its SkyDrive Pro cloud document storage and syncing service to 25 gigabytes, from the formerly proffered 7 gigabytes.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Chip veterans form new startup, will sell high-end Bitcoin miner for $14,000 — On Tuesday, a new Bitcoin startup called CoinTerra announced that it raised $1.5 million in venture capital. This likely puts the company in a position to dominate the Bitcoin hardware market—assuming it can come through on its promises.
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling FBI Access to U.S. Supercomputers — Cray XT4 supercomputer cluster (Franklin) has 9,660 compute nodes. Each has quad-core AMD processors running at 2.3 GHz. Franklin has 38,640 processor cores, with 8 GB of memory per node and a total 350 TB of usable disk space.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Kobo launches new e-reader and tablets and partners with read-it-later service Pocket — E-reading company Kobo is releasing a new e-reader and three new tablets and launching a book discovery tool called “Beyond the Book,” the company announced at an event in New York Tuesday evening.Sponsor Posts
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