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An amateur hacker revealed how easy it would be for someone to exploit one of Ireland’s most popular modems and routers. Ross Canpolat showed that, with the use of a simple software and a few other basic steps, almost anyone could access a device and cause serious damage.
Even though the technique may work on ... |
8 February 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers managed to gain access to the official website of the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, obtaining passwords used by employees and officials. Some of the passwords were used to administrate the website Irish Aid, an overseas development program.
According to The Journal, member... |
3 February 2012
06:27 GMT |
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A piracy law prepared by Ireland, compared by many with the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), caused a lot of concern among the country’s Internet users and Anonymous hacktivists have already begun attacking government websites as a form of protest.
According to the Irish Times, distributed denial of service (DDOS) ... |
26 January 2012
10:43 GMT |
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The Irish government revealed its plans to sell or dispose a number of 7,000 electronic voting machines after a group of Dutch hackers proved that their firmware could be easily replaced with a potentially malicious one.
Ireland’s Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan says that the machines are about to be s... |
13 January 2012
07:45 GMT |
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What is the chance for a Bank of America phishing scam to obtain information from Internet users in France? Many can agree that the chances are slim and this is precisely why cybercriminals have begun using botnets to launch more targeted spam operations that increase their success rates.
ESET researchers from Irela... |
10 January 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is now available in the UK and Ireland, as promised last year. Users in the two countries will be able to start streaming TV shows and movies from the site or on a large number of devices.
The company announced a few months ago that it would expand to its first European markets in early... |
9 January 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) decided that the three-strike anti-file sharing mechanism utilized by the Eircom ISP raised privacy concerns and ordered the practice to be stopped.
On the other hand, to make sure copyright holders won’t be upset, the Irish government is preparing to set up ... |
20 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The website of UNICEF Ireland (unicef.ie) was breached and defaced by a hacker who calls himself Brwsk007, reports CyberWarNews. Brwsk007 claims that not only was the main page defaced, but he also obtained access to their databases. “Your site is Unsecure. We Accessed to your database and all files. We defa... |
9 December 2011
06:44 GMT |
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The next in a long line of politician to talk about video games as a force which is detrimental to the development of children these days is the newly elected president of Ireland, who has addressed the issue at a meeting with supporters at the well-known landmark that is Temple Bar.Michael D. Higgins, who is the jus... |
28 November 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012. This comes after plenty of rumors and speculation about a European assault by Netflix. The company hasn't confirmed other launches, but they are coming soon as well.The company has now announced that its first two European markets wi... |
24 October 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it's setting up shop in Dublin Ireland, the third international home for the information network. The company is moving to Ireland to take advantage of the low corporation tax in the country and will likely create its biggest overseas team there.
"The Twitter office in Dublin, our t... |
26 September 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Hackers have broken into the website of Sony Music Ireland and posted several fake news stories about X Factor, The Script and Rebecca Black. It's not yet clear who was responsible for the hack or how they did it, but the company took its website offline to investigate. The www.sonymusic.ie domain currently... |
5 July 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Yesterday, May 31, the ill-fated RMS Titanic reached its 100th anniversary. The ship that would go on to become the world's most famous shipwreck was launched on May 31, 1911, by the Harland & Wolff shipyards, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The official “birth date” of a ship is its launch date, marit... |
1 June 2011
09:34 GMT |
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In celebration for the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, Microsoft has made available for download a new theme on the Windows Personalization Gallery designed to allow Windows 7 users to celebrate Ireland. The new Windows 7 Ireland theme is not just a collection of beautiful imagery from the island, but also a... |
4 March 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Amazon is expanding greatly in Europe with the acquisition of a large warehouse in Dublin to house a huge new data center. The new location will power Amazon's Web Services unit and will serve the European region. There are official confirmations but only an estimated price. The deal is believed to be one of the... |
10 February 2011
11:49 GMT |
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A large Irish job website called RecruitIreland.com notified its users that hackers managed to steal as many as 400,000 email addresses and names from its database for spamming purposes.The company operating the website learned of the breach on February 8 from external reports and took the decision to shut it down im... |
9 February 2011
09:58 GMT |
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The Fine Gael Irish political party has emailed nearly 2,000 users to notify them that their data was exposed after its website got hacked by members of Anonymous this weekend.The hack happened Sunday evening with the attackers replacing the front page with the Anonymous logo and a message reading:"Nothing is safe, y... |
10 January 2011
10:39 GMT |
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The Irish High Court has ruled against the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA), which was trying to obtain a court order, that would have forced UPC to disconnect file sharers from its network for repeated offenses.Similar policy, commonly referred to as a three strikes rule, has already been introduced in countr... |
13 October 2010
11:48 GMT |
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This almost unknown species of smooth-hound shark has been the object of a deep research carried out by scientists at University College Dublin, and might just take its rightful place as an endangered and in-need-of-protection species.These sharks grow over a meter in length, can reach 12 kg in weight and swim every ... |
5 October 2010
09:52 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released an amazing new image of a beautiful plankton bloom, which is currently taking place west of Ireland. The bloom, which is the feature colored in electric blue, looks as if it was painted with the characteristic brush strokes of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet... |
13 August 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Apple has announced the availability of movies from major labels on iTunes for two territories - Ireland, and France. U.S. Film studios mentioned in the report include 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Com... |
30 April 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Board.ie, the most popular forum in Ireland with millions of unique visitors each month, suffered a serious security breach yesterday. As a precaution, the website was taken offline and a password reset was triggered for all registered users."Today, Thursday 21 Jan 2010 at 11:20 GMT the Boards.ie database was attacke... |
22 January 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Twitter is continuously expanding its network and it integrates more and more functionalities to provide users with the possibility to update their existing accounts and to share their actions with the world. One of the latest services offered by Twitter is text messaging and it has recently become available to user... |
19 December 2009
02:29 GMT |
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A new study seems to indicate the fact that, in the 19th century, Irish emigrants to England renounced baptizing their children with Catholic names such as Patrick and Bridget, our of fear that the English would discriminate against them. The research team, based at the Durham and Northumbria universities, says that ... |
20 October 2009
20:11 GMT |
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Worldwide leading provider of telecommunications equipment ZTE Corporation announced recently that its mobile phones would become available in the UK, Ireland and Sweden on the airwaves of wireless service provider 3. At the same time, the company also stated that its agreement with 3 Scandinavia enabled it for the f... |
5 October 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Conceiving believable optical illusions is never very easy, granted, but, through his work, German artist Edgar Mueller makes it seem all so simple that we get the feeling we can all pick up the brush and do it. However, upon realizing that his giant illusions are up to 250 square meters (820 square feet) in size, mo... |
24 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The Green Party in Ireland has upset several technology bloggers after sending them unsolicited e-mail messages. In a twist of irony, one of its own members, the Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has recently passed the anti-spam legislation, under which the party might be fined. The ecologist party sent out the... |
21 January 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Authorities in Ireland recalled all pork-related products from the market on Saturday, following reports that all of it had been infected with toxic dioxins, compounds that accumulate inside the body over time, and can cause severe medical conditions, including cancer. On Sunday, Chief Veterinary Officer Paddy Rogan ... |
8 December 2008
18:21 GMT |
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While in India Ericsson is helping disadvantaged people, back in Europe, the Swedish telecommunications giant is taking care of more technical things. The company has announced a new deal with the Irish mobile operator Meteor, according to which it will be the exclusive supplier of the carrier's future nationwid... |
5 June 2008
13:17 GMT |
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Dell announced yesterday its plan to lay off up to 250 jobs from its operations centers in Dublin and Limerick. The announcement raised a wave of protest from both the company's employees and the local Irish authorities, who labeled the decision as a "bitter blow".The Irish employees at the two locations have b... |
30 April 2008
10:52 GMT |
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Nokia launched a brand new Nokia Music Store, this time for Ireland, providing Irish music fans with access to more than 2.5 million songs at any hour of the day and night. Including tracks from globally known artists, as well as from those who only got the chance to be heard in Ireland, the new Nokia Music Store of... |
3 April 2008
06:03 GMT |
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O2 Ireland announced that it will officially bring Apple's iPhone for Ireland's mobile users, to offer them one of the best mobile Internet experiences, the famous Multi-touch interface and Apple's pioneering software. The handset will be available across Ireland exclusively via O2 and Carphone Wareho... |
29 February 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Unlike most companies that are active in the computer hardware manufacturing business, the Japanese firm Fujitsu did not choose South or Central Asia as the preferred location to open a new facility but Europe, Northern Ireland to be more exact.Most computer hardware manufacturers are going in the Asian area because ... |
24 August 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Sony's PSP (no matter what the world says) is a great piece of machinery (if we can call it that). The portable device allows tons of stuff to run on it and if you got yourself one of those fancy Giga Packs, you can consider yourself a winner. But get ready for even more stuff to happen on your PSP's enormo... |
28 July 2007
08:22 GMT |
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