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Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Hacker Who Made the Apple Hall of Fame

The hacker known as Freedom helped Apple address a couple of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that affected one of the company’s public-facing websites. This is another interview that’s meant to demonstrate that companies can work well with hackers when it comes to securing their systems again...

11 May 2012
15:21 GMT

Vodafone, Orange, Virgin Media Vulnerable to Hackers (Exclusive, Updated)

In the past few weeks we’ve witnessed how some major companies failed to ensure that their public websites are secure against potentially malicious operations launched by profit-driven hackers. The hacker called Freedom identified a series of vulnerabilities in sites such as the ones of Virgin Media, Orange, Vo...

5 March 2012
03:44 GMT

Security Holes Found in 25 “Verisign Trusted” Online Stores (Exclusive)

Freedom, the grey hat hacker that in the past period identified a lot of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in some important websites, returns with other interesting finds. He discovered a number of 25 online shops from the United Kingdom containing XSS security holes. The worrying thing is that all of the ...

27 February 2012
03:22 GMT

Freedom: TESCO and Comet Sites Exposed to Hackers (Exclusive)

Freedom, the grey hat hacker we met a few days ago, returns with some interesting finds. He managed to identify a couple of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the official sites of the popular retailers TESCO and Comet. The first security hole was identified on TESCO’s site, tesco.com. “This ...

25 February 2012
08:27 GMT

Yves Saint Laurent, ABC and Sky Sports Vulnerable to Hackers (Exclusive, Updated)

A hacker that goes by the online handle Freedom provided us with proof regarding cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that exist in popular websites such as the ones of Yves Saint Laurent (ysl.com), ABC (abc.go.com), and Sky Sports (skysports.com). “The first been ABCGO and this was a very easy XSS issue, the ...

24 February 2012
12:19 GMT

Freedom Criticism of Uncharted 3 Is Unfounded, Says Developer

Uncharted 3 has come under some criticism for being too close to movies and lacking the freedom that defines video games, but one of the leading developers working on it at Naughty Dog says that the developer is thinking hard about how to mix freedom and story. When confronted with the criticism that says the series...

28 December 2011
02:58 GMT

Skyrim Diary – A Sense of Discovery and Freedom

At one point I had more than 30 entries in the Miscellaneous section of my Journal and another 15 or so major quest chains that I could try and solve but at times I simply chose to ignore them all and just walk the world of Skyrim.I liked to imagine that my character just moved around, turning the pages of his journa...

25 November 2011
19:01 GMT

Skyrim Diary – Mix and Match Spell and Steel

I talked about how Skyrim made me feel good about my virtual hands during a previous installment of this diary but there's much more to say about the way the combat of The Elder Scrolls V has changed for the better.Skyrim allows one player with one character to experience the potential of all the “classes&...

21 November 2011
19:01 GMT

BioWare Speaks About Responsibility to Gamers, Freedom from Electronic Arts

Ever since BioWare was bought by Electronic Arts a number of long term fans have talked about how the developer will be forced to create the game that the publisher is interested in and will need to give up all its creative freedom.But speaking to Eurogamer Greg Zeschuk, who is one of the co-founders of BioWare, has ...

5 October 2011
13:31 GMT

Ivan Kaspersky’s Kidnapping Confirmed, No Ransom Paid

Officials have confirmed that Ivan Kaspersky, the son of Kaspersky Lab founders Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky, was kidnapped and then rescued after authorities laid a trap for those responsible.The young man, a fourth-year student of mathematics and cybernetics at Moscow State University, disappeared on April 19.Two d...

26 April 2011
01:08 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary: The Deadly Consequences of Going Right

I never bought the idea that Dead Space could be a horror experience, mostly because it's very difficult to create such an experience in a medium so filled with personal control as video games are but also because publisher Electronic Arts and developer Visceral are positioning the franchise as being mass market...

2 February 2011
17:41 GMT

Lifestyle and Freedom Limit Public Health Measures

People's lifestyle in modern society as well as their freedoms are actually limiting the effectiveness of public health interventions, said Professor Elizabeth Murphy, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the University of Leicester’s College of Social Science, in her inaugural lecture.She also talked about the...

6 October 2010
06:17 GMT

Singularity – Aiming for BioShock, Becoming Hexen

After trying to immerse myself as much as possible into the atmosphere of Singularity, sitting in a narrow corridor and listening to a man as he talks about the E99-powered apocalypse happening all around the island of Katorga-12, the game has a very BioShock-like vibe going on but the structure does not allow it to ...

7 July 2010
19:11 GMT

Democracy Does Not Equal Freedom

As someone who has had the chance of studying the world's political systems and doctrine in detail, I am often surprised by just how many people put the “equal” mark between democracy and freedom. It's absolutely true that there are higher chances of people being free within a democratic society...

31 October 2009
07:56 GMT

NSA Collects Massive Amounts of Illegal Data

The highly controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), proposed as far back as 2001 by former president George W. Bush, has allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to collect extremely large amounts of data from American citizens, and centralize them into a massive database, which is constantly expanded. A...

17 April 2009
08:26 GMT

Take a Makeup-Free Day a Month

Everybody assumes that women love makeup - love shopping for it, love trying new brands and products, love the whole circus of putting it on and enjoy the resulting feeling of self-confidence. That's as much true as it is a misconception: out of the women who wear makeup everyday, you'd be surprised to disc...

12 June 2008
03:32 GMT

Freedom for the Masses!

Not all the manufacturers have realized that there's a huge market out there for people who are just interested in making and receiving phone calls, no need for advanced and complicated devices, which are used only at 5% of what they could really offer. There's also a huge market comprised of elderly users,...

4 January 2008
10:34 GMT

Google Official Stand on Freedom of Speech

The past few days have boiled Google down to the point where an official statement was inevitable on the freedom of speech problem it's been confronting. It looks more like a civic lesson, punctuated with reasons why Google did this and that throughout its almost 9 years of existence. But civic lessons are not b...

15 November 2007
03:56 GMT

Anti-Spam Law Against Free Speech

Everybody's bugged by spam nowadays, and as if the fact that it's annoying weren't enough, people make a profit by using spam too. That's why anti-spam laws exist, so that spam-scammers and other scammers too can be punished. But recently, a lawyer defending one of the world's greatest spamme...

13 September 2007
04:44 GMT

Top 6 The Most Severe Human Rights Violations Around the World

Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.On 27th of F...

18 August 2007
07:15 GMT

High Ceilings Make You Feel Free, Low Ones Induce Constraint

Do you feel like in a narrow den or like in a civilized spacious room at you working place?Well, this seems to influence your mental abilities.A team at the University of Minnesota has found that the height of the ceiling tunes your problem-solving skills and behavior by favoring certain types of brain actions. "Prim...

11 May 2007
07:17 GMT


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