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Leaked Photo of Donghae and Son Eun Seo Reignites Rumor of WGM Casting – Soompi
Jan 18th
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Leaked Photo of Donghae and Son Eun Seo Reignites Rumor of WGM Casting
Soompi As reported earlier, Super Junior's Donghae and actress Son Eun Seo are rumored to be the next couple for MBC “We Got Married.” Nothing has been confirmed at this point, but a photo of the two enjoying a double date with current WGM couple, … |
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Facebook Financials Leaked: They Need a Strong Fourth Quarter
Dec 16th
Although it is common knowledge that Facebook has over 800 million users and is the most popular social network in the world, the company is typically quiet regarding its financials. However, a “well-placed mole” recently provided news sources with access to Facebook’s classified financial information. The leaked financial data revealed that Facebook has total assets [...]
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Leaked YouTube Redesign Shows Google+, Facebook Integration
Nov 18th
A leaked YouTube redesign caught by Business Review USA shows a starkly different layout that emphasizes social sharing. It features Google+ and Facebook sharing tabs on a prominent profile sidebar. The inclusion of Facebook is surprising, but YouTube is a popular destination, which offers a perfect opportunity to introduce Facebook friends to Google+.
YouTube has been testing this design with a small percentage of users for several weeks. YouTube’s integration with Google+ actually began in October, when Google enabled users to connect their YouTube and Google+ accounts. This brought a “Posted to Google+” tab of videos to users’ YouTube homepages. But the leaked redesign takes the integration further, turning the homepage into a news feed that tracks trending and popular videos. It also emphasizes user profiles, showing Google’s intentions to unify users under one Google+ identity.
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In October, YouTube’s design lead, Elizabeth Windram Laraki, left Google for Quora. Meanwhile, major Google properties like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Reader have gotten major redesigns to unify them with Google+ and introduce more social features. As SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra made clear at Web 2.0 in October, Google+ represents a shift for the whole company. The leaked redesign shows that it’s YouTube’s turn to get the treatment.
A Google spokesperson had this to say about the redesign:
“With more videos coming to YouTube every minute we’re always experimenting with ways to help users and creators more easily find, watch and share the videos that matter most to them. We’re trying out this homepage on a small percentage of our total user base. As always, we’ll consider rolling changes out more broadly based on user feedback on this experiment.”
Thanks to Business Review USA for the great scoop!
Do you like YouTube’s new emphasis on social features?
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Android App Player for PlayBook Leaked, Runs Email and Some Apps
Jul 22nd
The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook has leaked out, allowing curious gadget enthusiasts an early hands-on with the (still underdeveloped) software. For those unaware, the Android App Player is the software which will allow the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to run Android applications – at least those apps that developers have specifically ported over to the PlayBook.
RIM, having become aware of the leak yesterday, warned users to “refrain from downloading and installing this software since it is outdated and non-functional in many respects.” RIM’s right, of course – the software is broken and buggy. But refrain from installing? That’s no fun! Especially since some folks have already figured out how to get Android apps up and running on the PlayBook, including email.
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Leaked Version Works…Sort Of
Installing the current version of the Android App Player on your PlayBook (assuming you are one of the few that actually owns one) could “seriously mess things up,” says the RIM-tracking blog CrackBerry.com. So if you’re just curious about what the Player looks like, you can check it through the video the site posted> (below) in the video, the player gets stuck for a bit on the loading screen, and then, when loading is complete, only presents a blank screen as the main user interface. However, you can dig around a little in various menus, check out some of the pre-loaded default Android apps (many of which don’t work properly), and you can even send and receive email through Android’s email client software.
That last one is notable, of course, since PlayBook owners are still waiting on RIM to ship the much-needed core applications, including email, contacts and calendar. Unless you currently own a BlackBerry phone, there’s no way (outside webmail) to check your email using the PlayBook. RIM says these apps, as well as the App Player, will arrive sometime this summer.
Android Apps Hacked to Run on PlayBook Using App Player
Some enterprising developers and tech enthusiasts monkeyed around with the software yesterday, and have figured out how to actually run third-party Android applications using the App Player. Screenshots and messages posted to the CrackBerry forums show installations of Zynga’s Words with Friends, Amazon’s Kindle, Astro and others.
We wouldn’t recommend trying this yourself, unless you really know what you’re doing, or are willing to suffer the consequences.
Image credit: CrackBerry forum member lawguyman
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90,000 Military Emails Leaked After Anonymous Attack
Jul 11th
On Monday morning “hacktivist” group Anonymous promised that it would be releasing results of an attack it made on representatives of the intelligence community, groups like the CIA in the United States and MI6 in the United Kingdom, as well as the companies that support them.
The first wave of results, which Anonymous is calling #MilitaryMeltdownMonday, have just been released. Anonymous targeted consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, a company that often works the with U.S. Department of Defense and National Security Administration, and gained access to 90,000 military emails, four gigabytes of source code (which was erased from the Booz Allen Hamilton servers) along with login credentials and other sources of information that Anonymous can hack along the intelligence community’s digital infrastructure. What did Anonymous find in Boox Allen Hamilton’s servers and how damaging could be it be to American homeland security?
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Keeping with the previous themes of ships (Lulz Security called itself the Lulz Boat), Anonymous calls Booz Allen Hamilton a wooden barge with no security at all. Here is how Anonymous described the attack on the company:
“We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place,” Anonymous wrote. “We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure.”
So, according to Anonymous, Booz Allen Hamilton had a least one server in its infrastructure that was insecure and contained sensitive information about the company’s dealing with the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency. Anonymous is posting the results of its attack on sites like The Pirate Bay and MirrorCreator.
In terms of what Anonymous found in the Booz Allen Hamilton servers, there are certainly items that will get people fired. One of the bigger items is Boox Allen Hamilton’s association with security company HBGary. Booz Allen Hamilton and HBGary Federal proposed software for a sophisticated program (dubbed Metal Gear by Anonymous) that would allow security teams to control “sock puppet” online identities in social media spheres which would attempt to steer conversation about certain topics.
“And thanks to the gross incompetence at Booz Allen Hamilton probably all military [p]ersonnel of the U.S. will now have to change their passwords,” Anonymous wrote.
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iPad for Business Round-Up: Skype for iPad Details Leaked and More
Jun 24th
The iPad isn’t just a hot new consumer device, it’s also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.
This week we look at a new app for enterprise microblogging, a new RDP client for the iPad and yet another way of building mobile apps. Plus, an advance look at the forthcoming Skype for iPad app.
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AccessToGo is a new RDP client for the iPad from Ericom. It’s also available for other iOS devices and for Android. We previously looked at a few other RDP and remote administration tools here.
Adobe Flash Builder Adds New Tools for Developing iPad and Other Mobile Apps
This week Adobe announced support for building iOS and Blackberry Playbook apps with Flash Builder and the Flex framework. Flash Builder and Flex have had support for creating Android applications since April.
MangoTalk and MangoTask
This week MangoSpring announced a stand-alone versions of its enterprise microblogging\instant messaging app MangoTalk and its task manager app MangoTasks for iOS and Android (I couldn’t actually find MangoTasks in iTunes, so I assume it’s either been pulled or delayed, it is in the Android Market, though).
MangoSpring also announced a few new features for its suite of enterprise social softawre, and new pricing. We previously covered MangoSpring here
Skype for iPad Details Leak
It’s not out yet, but details about Skype’s iPad app leaked on YouTube. According to CNET, which has already published its review of the app, Skype for iPad will be available from iTunes on Tuesday.
Database Clients for the iPad
Continuing our look at business tools for the iPad, this week we looked at database clients for the iPad, including FileMaker Go, the various DataGlass clients and more.
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HP’s webOS 3.0 Leaked: Updated Browser, Email, Maps & More
Apr 13th
The bloggers over at PreCentral have gotten their hands on the new, unreleased version of HP’s webOS, the mobile operating system HP acquired through its purchase of Palm last year. The updated software, webOS 3.0, will soon power new HP Pre smartphones and a tablet computer called the TouchPad. The webOS SDK (software development kit) was released a few weeks ago to developers, allowing them to get an early hands-on with the software in order to begin building mobile apps. Although prohibited, an unknown developer has leaked the SDK to the media.
In a comprehensive review, PreCentral has examined every aspect of the new software, noting updates to core apps like the Web browser, email client, maps and others. Most notably, HP has ditched Google Maps in this version, and is now using Microsoft’s Bing Maps instead.
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According to the site, the following features and/or applications are new:
- Launcher: An arrow/home button on the bottom right brings up a new tabbed launcher with tabs labeled “All” and “Favorites”
- Rearranging apps: press and hold now launches an “edit mode” where apps can be moved, deleted, or removed from a customized launcher page. Press “done” to complete the process.
- Just Type: webOS’s universal search feature is now tabbed, like the launcher, and muted gray in appearance. Recent searches and the virtual keyboard appear when you tap the search bar.
- Virtual Keyboard: Text Predication has been added, not just to help you complete words (as with Text Assist introduced in webOS 2.0), but to predict what word you’ll type next.
- Notifications: Notifications are now at the top of the screen, next to the device menu. If you receive more than one notification from the same app, you can swipe through them and drill down into the message you’re interested in. This doesn’t delete or mark as “read” the other notifications you swiped through while doing so.
- Browser: Now called “Browser” not “Web,” the new browser has removed the grid of bookmark icons and replaced it with a Bookmarks/History button that slides out a panel with Bookmarks, History and Downloads buttons at the top. A bar at the bottom shows the progress of a loading webpage and disappears when the loading is complete. The navigation bar does not disappear as you scroll down on a webpage.
- Calendar: Now redesigned, the app shows your current calendar in the middle of the screen, with the bottom offering buttons for creating events, switching views, etc. Buttons at the top let you switch to other calendars. The design is new, but everything else here works the same as before.
- Contacts: No changes here besides slight tweaks to the lettering style.
- Email: Similar to email on the iPad, the folder list disappears in Portrait view, but is present in Landscape view. Buttons at the bottom lets you compose, refresh and now, mass edit (meaning select multiple messages at once to add flags, delete, move, etc.)
- Exhibition: The “screen saver” like mode is now bigger, and more stretched out. Time, Agenda and Photo options are available, but only Time was functioning. Both an analog and flip clock are offered.
- Maps: The biggest update to webOS 3.0 is a switch from Google Maps to Bing. The new interface offers a search bar at the top, which also provides access to recent searches and favorites, a Directions mode, Suggested Searches (when it doesn’t understand your query), and more. You can drag and drop pins, turn on or off GPS, and switch between road, aerial and Bird’s Eye (3D) views.
- Memos: Cork pad and push pins are gone and memos are larger. You now press “edit” to move notes around, instead of press and hold.
- Messaging: Now two-paned, but functionality remains essentially the same.
- Music: The app has been overhauled, offering a two-paned view, with songs on the right and sort/filtering options on the left, plus a cover flow-like view of music, and a notification area mini-player with access to controls.
- Photos & Videos: The two apps are now one, and integrate device pictures with those from Facebook. Album, filmstrip and fullscreen views are available. Facebook comments are shown, too.
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Leaked Security Firm Documents Show Plans to Discredit WikiLeaks, Glenn Greenwald
Feb 10th
“You’ve angered the hive,” said Anonymous, in response to the efforts of security firm HBGary’s attempts to infiltrate and expose its inner workings. As we reported yesterday, the loose collective of online vigilantes – Anonymous – responded to a story in the The Financial Times and the actions of HBGary’s CEO Aaron Barr by hacking into the company’s systems and releasing tens of thousands of its emails and documents.
Among those documents, an outline of plans to systematically discredit WikiLeaks, along with Salon journalist (and WikiLeaks supporter) Glenn Greenwald.
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A proposal entitled “The WikiLeaks Threat” was developed by Palantir Technologies, HBGary, Berico Technologies upon request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm whose clients include Bank of America, the bank widely rumored to be the target of WikiLeaks’ next leak.
The proposal (mirrored on the WikiLeaks site) offers suggestions on how to disrupt and discredit WikiLeaks apparently included cyberattacks on its infrastructure and leaking misinformation in the hopes that WikiLeaks could be caught in a “gotcha” moment.
More surprising and arguably more troubling: the proposal suggests an attack on Glenn Greenwald, a journalist who has been an active supporter of WikiLeaks and of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier charged with leaking many of the classified documents that WikiLeaks distributed. “This level of support needs to be disrupted.” The proposal suggests that “without the support of people like Glenn WikiLeaks would fold.” That seems a rather silly contention, but the idea that one would target a journalist like this is chilling to say the least.
It’s worth noting that nothing in the document or its accompanying email chain suggests that these plans ever became more than PowerPoint presentations. There’s no indication that the Bank of America signed off on support for a smear campaign. And HBGary has not commented on the attacks by Anonymous or on the veracity of any of these documents.
But if nothing else, it’s all fuel for what continues to be a wild saga, one where the Internet truth is stranger than fiction.
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Leaked: Cuban Government Fears Bloggers More Than Activists
Dec 29th
Reporters Without Borders reports that several diplomatic cables that have come out via Wikileaks indicate Cuba is more worried about bloggers than traditional activists.
In a cable from April of last year, Jonathan Farrar, chief of mission of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana agrees with a news op-ed that calls the traditional dissidents “old and out of touch.”
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“(The articles) might have generated a reform debate among the dissident leaders, but instead they simply focused dissident frustration with the Cuban exile community.”
“Younger individuals, like bloggers” and musicians, are much more appealing to the public and are targets of jealousy by the activists.
In a second cable from later that year, Farrar underscores what a terror bloggers have become to the “GOC” (government of Cuba).
“Much more threatening to the regime are our overtures to and complaints of mistreatment of bloggers, a group that frustrates and scares the GOC like no other…The conventional wisdom in Havana is that GOC sees the bloggers as its most serious challenge, and one that it has trouble containing in the way that it has dealt with traditional opposition groups. The ‘old guard’ dissidents mostly have been isolated from the rest of the island. The GOC doesn’t pay much attention to their articles or manifestos because they have no island-wide resonance and limited international heft. For a while, ignoring the bloggers too seemed to work. But the bloggers’ mushrooming international popularity and their ability to stay one tech-step ahead of the authorities are causing serious headaches in the regime.”
A third cable described the meetings between Cuban bloggers and Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Bisa Williams in September.
“The bloggers, who partly out of self-preservation do not want to be lumped in with the dissident community, were equally optimistic about the course of events. ‘An improvement in relations with the United States is absolutely necessary for democracy to emerge here.’”
The distributed nature of the appeal and actions of bloggers and other cultural rebels are harder for the Cuban government to high-jack. How can the government infiltrate a group of bloggers who rarely meet, and none of whom know all the others, and whose statements are accessible, albeit with difficulty, all over the island and the world? What form the changes bloggers make in the future of Cuba will take is as unknowable as it is thrilling to consider.
Read more ReadWriteWeb coverage of Cuba. Read all the cables from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.
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Mozilla Passwords Leaked, No Reason to Panic
Dec 28th
A database containing 44,000 usernames and password hashes associated with accounts registered on the Mozilla add-ons website was accidentally made public, the organization and makers of the Firefox Web browser said on Monday. The partial database of user accounts was mistakenly left on a Mozilla public server, which would have allowed anyone to access the account usernames and the password hashes.
The good news? Says Mozilla: no one did. Well, no one except for the one security researcher who found them.
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According to a post on the Mozilla security blog, a security researcher reported the issue via Mozilla’s web bounty program, a program that encourages external, non-employee security professionals to find and submit bugs to Mozilla. In return, Mozilla pays cash ($500 to $3,000 for valid bugs) for the submissions. Although Mozilla isn’t saying, this is probably one of those $3,000 dollar rewards.
This news comes on the heels of another high-profile password breach – the mid-December hacker attack on Gawker Media’s servers, which ended up exposing the usernames and passwords of 1.3 million user accounts, creating for commenting purposes on popular weblogs like Gawker, Gizmodo, LifeHacker, Kotaku, io9, Jezebel and others.
How Were the Passwords Protected?
Like Gawker’s passwords, which were poorly encrypted using DES encryption, an older, less secure technology, Mozilla’s passwords in this instance were protected with MD5 hashes, another older method of protection. These passwords can be cracked, explains Chester Wisniewski on the Sophos security blog. “MD5 has cryptographic weaknesses that permit creation of the same hash from multiple strings,” he says. “This permits security experts to compute all the possible hashes and determine either your password or another string that will work even if it is not your password.”
Mozilla hasn’t used MD5 since April 9, 2009 – it now uses SHA-512, a significantly stronger encryption method. The database in question, however, housed older, inactive accounts using the MD5-hashed passwords.
What’s Being Done
To address the issue, Mozilla says it erased all the MD5 passwords, effectively disabling the accounts.
Chris Lyon, Director of Infrastructure Security for Mozilla says “the issue posed minimal risk to users,” because the only person according to Mozilla’s logs, who accessed the database was the security researcher who reported the problem. Lyon also reassured users that the incident did not impact any of Mozilla’s infrastructure.
While the risk may be minimal, Wisniewski suggests that anyone contacted by Mozilla as having been one of the unfortunate users whose account information was exposed should make sure they are not using that same password at other websites, just in case. If so, change those passwords immediately. “If [Mozilla is] wrong or if the discloser is not trustworthy, your other accounts may be at risk,” he says.
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