Server Attack on police computer: hacker arrested

A group called NN-crew had published confidential information about a week of duty in the Internet. These were among other things, movement profiles of the monitoring system of Patras, with the data from the GPS tracking devices are evaluated. The customs data confirmed the leak, the federal police took the Patras-server from the network temporarily and warned all users.

Use data from the Federal Police or the federal Office of Criminal Investigation should not have been affected. The Customs Criminal Office has subsequently reported to the prosecutors in Karlsruhe. Apparently the hacker had access to a download server to the federal police, was deployed to the software for various departments.

Patents: HTC loses a battle against Apple

Computer group Apple has won a first round in the legal battle that pitted him against HTC. In the first opinion, Friday, July 15, the International Trade Commission in Washington ruled that the firm taïwainaise violated two patents for Apple. Initially, the American accused HTC ten violations of patents in various fields, ranging from user interface with motion sensors on mobile devices.

Group HTC announced that it would appeal. The final opinion of the commission is expected in early December. But if the verdict was upheld, imports of HTC smartphones, using the Android operating system from Google, could be banned in the United States. FALL OF TITLE HTC "It's not the worst case for HTC since it was recognized that they did not infringe on eight patents, however, said Michael On, Taiwanese investor, quoted by Bloomberg.

Twitter app for people with disabilities a "chirping" with a breath

 It's called "Bird Breath", the breath of the bird, and is currently only an application for iPad, created by Techfirm, Japanese developer, which also allows the handicapped to use Twitter. The importance of social networks is that even for those who can not use a keyboard, and Breath Bird in particular is dedicated to those who can not use your fingers and has difficulty speaking.

And to use just a breath. How it works. At launch, Breath Bird shows on the left side of Twitter updates, and the right side its interface all its own. When you want to send a message, using an illuminated keyboard on the right side of the screen. The rows of letters on the keyboard are highlighted in an automatic cycle, and the idea of Breath Bird is all about: to write is enough to blow the iPad when the keyboard lights on the string of letters that contains what you need.

The processor of the iPhone 5 ready for production

The legal battle that pits Apple and Samsung could soon have the first consequences beyond the courts and patent disputes. According to the Taiwanese factory CNET TSMC will be chosen to make the processor A6, which will form the core of the next iPhone 5 and a future iPhone 3. This new unit would have four processing cores.

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The Pentagon goes on the offensive on Internet

The Pentagon is preparing for a militarization of cyberspace. After several attacks on their networks and subcontractors working for him, the Department of Defense has decided to make official a new cyber defense strategy, which provides Internet range of possible battlefield, as it is land, sea and air.

Cyber Command, created in May 2010, will assume the management of military resources intended to safeguard the security of U.S. networks.

Reda, the good hackers '' that violated Facebook

All your data on Facebook are not safe: to steal, to do good, we thought Agatha, a program created by a young Moroccan - Cherqaoui Reda, 22, a security expert - who was able to identify a flaw in the social networks created by Mark Zuckerberg. Agatha would have full access to the data of more than 80 thousand Facebook users, without the need to discover your username and password.

Reda is a genius of science: just out of high school and enrolled at the faculty of computer science at the University of Casablanca, has created a society that takes care of websites and online security. And over the years has identified problems in sites such as eBay and Hotmail. Today he lives and works in Paris.

iPad competition: Amazon Android tablet will come in October

Now there is obviously a date: The delivery retailer Amazon is preparing to launch its own Android Tablets for the fall. Amazon is pushing for the tablet market. The rumor mill tells of this attack for some time, CEO Jeff Bezos himself had hinted several times - now says the usually well-informed "Wall Street Journal" from a start in the fall.