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The PS3 EYE, a webcam for your Playstion 3, has been hacked to work with windows. Some hackers developed a driver to let the cam be used on windows. The camera can push a wopping 60fps with USB 2.0 at full VGA, not to bad for a camera that is useless on the Playstation.

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Well, I decided to finally give Skype a try, and only being a subscriber for 12 hours, I’m ubber excited about the free and commercial service. Skype in general is free. If all you want to do is call PC to PC with voice or instant messenger, no problem, Skype won’t cost you a dime. If you want to call a land line phone number, it will cost you $29 per year for unlimited calls to anywhere in the United States and Canada. If you want incoming calls and an actual real phone number attached to your Skype account, it will cost another $40 (aprx) per year. (continue reading…)

A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the International Space Station. W32.Gammima.AG, is a worm that spreads to drives and flash memory. The worm is designed to steal passwords from online games such as World of Warcraft and others.

NASA is sending the laptops new flash memory.

Doctors, Patients, and manufacturers of pacemakers are all to concerned that hackers could tamper with someone’s much needed pacemaker. Today’s pacemakers allow doctors to remotely make changes to the pacemaker configurations, and patients feel they are at risk. Well, they are right, if doctors can access the pacemakers remotely, so can the hackers. Remote access to pacemakers is a BAD, and I say again, a BAD idea.

Nothing will keep hackers out, and I do mean nothing. Whether hackers remotely hack it, or whether the mob breaks into the doctors house and forces the doctor at gun point to remote access them, someone will find a way.

Everyone knows a good liar, or do they? I’ve been reading some interesting articles about whats going on with hacked email accounts. Recent activity indicates that social engineers are using hacked email accounts to gain access to address-books for potential fraud projects.

One such project, a surgeon’s email address (continue reading…)

Apple has been a long time communist when it comes to their products. They don’t want anyone installing third party applications on their iPhone, as they wan’t you to pay for the over priced software. How dare you wish to install third party applications!

Then there are the iPhone hackers that have saved us from the communist Apple party, allowing users to

freely

install applications on their iPhones. Apple has had to patch their software to help beat the iPhone hackers who keep on updating their software.Every time Apple tries to re-locj people’s phone and take away their freedoms, the hackers save the day and release new software to hack the iPhone.