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Anonymous Brazil continues its operations against the country’s state and financial institutions, the latest victims being HSBC, Banco Bradesco, Itau and Banco do Brasil, attacked as part of OpWeeksPayment. Currently, Bradesco and Banco do Brasil are up and running normally, the latter stating on its Twitter p... |
3 February 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Facebook is taking over the world. No, it isn't replacing governments just yet, but it is the largest social network in most places around the world. The last holdouts are falling one by one and in the few places where Facebook isn't number one, the site is completely blocked in the country.
Blogger Vincen... |
27 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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In the past few days the Brazilian government and its institutions were highly targeted by hacktivists as part of different operations that were launched for diverse reasons. Since there were so many ops and so many sites were being defaced and hit with distributed denial of service attacks, we’ve decided to go... |
26 January 2012
07:05 GMT |
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While most of the world is launching distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against anti-piracy outfits, government institutions and representatives of the media industry holding them responsible for SOPA and the closure of Megaupload, in Brazil, a hacker called GhostOfThreads is defacing sites to prove a point... |
21 January 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Facebook has finally done it, it has overtaken Google's Orkut in Brazil, the social network's final holdout. Facebook now has only a handful of countries where it is still not the number one, several of those being countries where the site is blocked altogether.comScore reports that Facebook had 36 million ... |
18 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility has just announced the release of a new Android-based device on the market in Brazil, namely the Motorola i940 with instant Push-To-Talk capabilities.
The new mobile phone was designed to meet the needs of busy, on-the-go people that need to stay connected with friends, family and coworkers.
It ... |
13 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Rockstar Games’ development process for the upcoming Max Payne 3 shooter has been a long and painstaking one, as the studio has just highlighted the efforts it has made while recreating the real life Sao Paulo in the virtual game. Max Payne 3 continues the story of the grizzled New York detective, this time as... |
12 January 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Facebook is an established player in much of the world, at least in the developed world. It's not gaining too many new users in the US or in the UK for the very simple reason that there aren't that many people not using Facebook left.
That's a different story in many places around the world, while 201... |
9 January 2012
10:47 GMT |
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The official website of Brazil’s Ministry of Environment (ambiente.gov.br) was hacked by Anonymous, the hacktivists managing to obtain and leak information from their servers, including some member login credentials.
The Anonymous hacktivist group just revealed its intentions of attacking the Brazilian govern... |
6 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Anonymous has sent a message to the Brazilian government, accusing them of launching some projects that affect the environment.
Anonymous, along with Iberoamerica (the group’s South American faction) and Operation Green Rights united their forces to stop the government from building a “mega-dam” on... |
6 January 2012
09:27 GMT |
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The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has announced it would postpone the new Forest Code vote until March 2012. Their decision can trigger different effects. First of all, this means that major players from the agribusiness sector could carry on with their activities and further threaten the balance of Brazilian fores... |
15 December 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Brazilians can now buy a second-generation Apple TV, take it home and go online via the iTunes Store to grab tons of stuff to watch through their set-top-box on the big screen.According to TNW, Brazilian customers can order the small, black set-top box through the Apple online store for R$ 399, or around $217 in US d... |
14 December 2011
03:28 GMT |
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There are plenty of ways to explore the world in Google Maps, but a fun one, where available, is the 45 degree mode. In cities where Google has managed to get a hold of aerial imagery, it makes for a much more detailed view and it's also more useful as a guide than top-down satellite imagery.
Not to mention, it... |
13 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Apple has officially confirmed the launch of its iTunes Store in Brazil and 15 additional Latin American countries today.A press release from Apple just hit the wires with official word from the Cupertino company that the iTunes Store is now available in Brazil “with an incredible selection of Brazilian and int... |
13 December 2011
05:47 GMT |
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The Brazilian Senate gives green light to a new controversial legal framework, meant to change the Forest Code, stipulating how many acres of forest can be wiped off private lands every year. Eco-groups talk about an emerging “disaster,” but their protest is useless at this point in time, since the... |
7 December 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Imazon, a green organization, has recently declared that the Brazilian forests are showing signs of improvement. Its representatives have monitored deforestation and forest degradation in the region and are excited to say that these threat factors were “down moderately” from the end of the summer until Oc... |
5 December 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Apple is preparing to deploy iPhone 4S in several new territories this month, and one of them is Brazil, where carrier Claro has posted a promotional page confirming the December 16th launch date.Claro advertises the new device (Google-translated) mentioning the more powerful A5 chip and iOS 5, “the world&rsquo... |
2 December 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Ayla Mota, a Brazilian woman who owns (or owned) an iPhone 4, has reported the second incident this week of a spontaneously combusting Apple handset.Earlier this week we reported that an iPhone turned glowing red and caught fire on a flight to Australia as the plane had just landed, causing a bit of concern.It is unc... |
1 December 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Thousands of people from Brazil are discontent with the expected changes applied to the Forest Law. In their opinion, the House of Representatives and Federal Senate doesn't do good job representing the national interests, since it tends to favor only a few major players pulling the strings in “agribusines... |
30 November 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Leaked photos from Brazil are circulating on the web depicting a White iPhone 4 model with 8GB storage capacity and a stamp on its back that says it was manufactured at Foxconn’s recently erected facility in Brazil.The leaked images clearly show a Brazil designation with a a localized model number and the words... |
25 November 2011
04:05 GMT |
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Google+ has been growing steadily. It has several tens of millions of users, the latest official figures are about 45 million. That's all well and good for Google, finally it has a successful social network.But it's faced with a problem in Brazil where it already has a successful social network, Orkut.Googl... |
17 November 2011
16:11 GMT |
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I won't go any deeper into how my Liverpool unfolded (hint: it does not get pretty as the season progresses) but I will make a few final observations about Football Manager 2012 based on the more than 10 season I have played until now (full disclosure: this is all based around teams in England, with Germany, Fra... |
9 November 2011
18:31 GMT |
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World's largest landfill seems to be represented by Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Gardens) located outside of Rio de Janeiro. The dirtiest place in the world succeeds in collecting 9,000 tonnes of waste every year.
Trash has been turned into profit by thousands of poor people who will remain “unemployed,&r... |
7 November 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Music streaming is becoming a very profitable business nowadays, considering that in the US and Canada there are numerous services competing for the same audience. One of these companies, namely Rdio, has decided to enter new markets, such as Brazil.Americans cannot probably imagine life without enjoying their music... |
30 October 2011
08:28 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Microsoft has announced that it will be reducing the price of the Xbox 360 home console on the Brazilian market and that it will be producing up to 17,000 devices in the country.Starting with October a factory in Manaus, Brazil will begin creating the Microsoft home console.The new plant... |
29 September 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Sporting venues are increasingly turning to solar panels systems to generate clean electricity for their venues because of their important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and operational costs.Gehrlicher Ecoluz Solar do Brazil S.A has recently been awarded a contract for the planning and construction of the... |
16 September 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky warn that banking trojans of Brazilian origin have started targeting banks from Spain, Portugal and other countries.European financial institutions have traditionally been targeted by widespread trojans like ZeuS or SpyEye, while Brazilian trojans from the Banker family have pretty... |
31 August 2011
03:11 GMT |
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A group of Brazilian hackers calling themselves LulzSec Brazil, after the infamous international hacking outfit, has released the transcripts of email and phone interceptions performed by the Federal Police.Judging by the directory tree, the data represents the contents of a 8GB Kingston USB memory stick most likely ... |
8 August 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Facebook's official user number is 750 million and it's not likely to get updated any time soon. But even if the company is not showing off its growth anymore, it's still seeing big improvements in some countries, with India leading in the past month.
According to numbers by Socialbakers, 2.5 millio... |
4 August 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility has just announced the release of a new handset on the market in Brazil, the Android-based Motorola SPICE Key.
The new smartphone comes to shelves with a full QWERTY keyboard and with a touchscreen display into the mix, as well as with options that enable users personalize th... |
30 July 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Sony has announced that Brazil will be the second country in Latin America with an official PlayStation Store, after Mexico, as the Japanese company finally extended support for the online service to the South American country.
Sony has been bringing its PlayStation Network and Store to many countries in order to ... |
26 July 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that the untimely death of English singer Amy Winehouse is not only exploited by scammers, but also malware pushers.The 27-year-old Grammy award winning singer was found dead in her house in London last Saturday. The news spread on the Internet like wildfire prompting cyber criminals to expl... |
26 July 2011
12:32 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that frequent flyers are increasingly targeted in phishing attacks and that accumulated air miles have become a currency on underground markets.According to Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini, multiple phishing attacks targeting airline fidelity programs have been spotted in Brazil recently... |
25 July 2011
09:30 GMT |
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Security researchers from cloud security provider Zscaler have detected a phishing attack that used DNS cache poisoning to direct victims to a spoofed banking website.The unusual attack was detected in Brazil and targeted customers of Banco Santander Brasil, one of the largest banks in the country.According to Zscale... |
19 July 2011
10:17 GMT |
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The Opera Mobile browser is being pre-loaded on the latest mobile phone from Motorola to arrive on shelves in Brazilian market, namely the super-slim MOTOKEY XT.Motorola and Opera announced the signing of an agreement through which the handset will offer as default browser the Opera Mobile application. Starting toda... |
15 July 2011
14:31 GMT |
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The Opera Mini browser has made another step towards fully conquering the mobile space, as it will be preloaded on devices coming from handset manufacturer Onda, in Brazil.
The move is part of a deal between Opera Software and Onda, and involves the pre-loading of Opera Mini on the Onda N235, the first Onda phone... |
17 June 2011
17:11 GMT |
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The website of Sony Music Brazil has been defaced by a hacker in what continues to be a long series of security breaches involving Sony's web properties.The compromise happened sometime on Saturday night and the rogue front page remained up for over twelve hours.It's not clear if any sensitive data was comp... |
6 June 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a piece of Brazilian banking malware hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the cloud provider failed to respond in a timely manner.
The malware installer was distributed from an account on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a .scr (screen s... |
6 June 2011
07:10 GMT |
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It's no big surprise that Facebook, even at its size, is still growing at a steady pace. While the latest official numbers, from a few months ago, say that there are 500 million users, the unofficial ones show that it's getting close to 700 million, this while actually losing some users in countries where a... |
30 May 2011
08:41 GMT |
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A new piece of Brazilian banking malware capable of spoofing SSL-protected sites has been fitted with a rootkit component able to infect 64-bit Windows systems.According to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, the malware was distributed through a drive-by download attack launched from a popular ... |
23 May 2011
10:59 GMT |
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In a new study, experts found massive currents of water affecting the coasts of Brazil, in South America. The formations, resembling giant Frisbees as seen from satellite, are produced by the interactions of larger, already-known currents passing through the area.
According to experts, these disks of water influe... |
2 April 2011
06:38 GMT |
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Amazing new pictures of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been taken by Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department and are used by Survival International as part of a campaign to protect their endangered territory.This is the first time anyone gets such detailed images of these uncontacted Indians, t... |
1 February 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn that scammers have started taking advantage of the floods that hit several countries recently and this trend is only expected to increase.In recent weeks, serious floods have affected regions of Australia, Brazil and the Philippines, and, unfortunately, these natural disasters ... |
21 January 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new phishing attack that targets Brazilian credit card owners by spoofing emails from MasterCard's Surpreenda (surprise) program.The new campaign was spotted by spam analysts from Commtouch, who note that unlike classic phishing schemes where users are threatened into exposing thei... |
19 January 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Federative Republic of Brazil has signed the formal accession agreement that will open the way for the country to become a Member State of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Once the Brazilian government ratifies it, Brazil will become the fifteenth Member State and also the first one from outsid... |
30 December 2010
08:14 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky warn of an email-based attack directed at Brazilian online banking users, which uses real names and national identification numbers, to trick them into downloading a trojan.The fake emails are crafted to appear as originating from Banco Itaú, one of the largest banks in... |
4 November 2010
07:53 GMT |
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Google Street View just launched in a few more places, Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica. Users flogging to view the new imagery, though, got to see more than cute penguins and not in a good way. Images of two bodies were spotted, one in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Belo Horizonte. The bodies were partially cove... |
2 October 2010
08:15 GMT |
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Authorities in the South American nation announced last week that they plan to enact a new set of measures, taken with the explicit purpose of protecting the massive savanna known as Cerrado. This is a huge swath of land that features a magnificent diversity of animal and plant species. Its value for the world is ine... |
22 September 2010
09:13 GMT |
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Investigators working deep in a Brazilian forest managed to collect samples of aerosols that are largely free from contamination with chemicals produced by human activities. This is the first time such an accomplishment is made, researchers say. Analysis of the collected aerosols revealed that they were in near prist... |
17 September 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser in the world, is expected to hit a number of more than 60 mobile phone models in Brazil via a recently signed partnership between Opera Software and local wireless carrier TIM. A new, co-branded application called “Navegador TIM,” would be pushed out to mobile ... |
10 September 2010
12:34 GMT |
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