Facebook has opened registration for its second annual Hacker Cup where programmers around the world fight for highly coveted title of champion.
Registration officially began on Wednesday, December 4, with the first of qualification rounds scheduled on January 20 at 16:00.
Symantec confirmed late Thursday that hackers compromised some source code relating to two discontinued enterprise security products.
The code belonged to Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Antivirus 10.2, which are four and five years old, respectively. Symantec's consumer security line, Norton, was not affected.
When Mark Surman was growing up, he connected to the Web using a dial-up modem that squeaked and buzzed its way to a modest connection. The Web he used was simple, and hardly error-free. Using the Internet was hard, and that made its users think about the way it worked.
There's a serious security vulnerability on some HP LaserJet printers.
The good news is that it's been patched. The bad news is that you don't know if your HP LaserJet printer needs the fix - because HP hasn't told you.
Apple has sparked a new legal battle against websites that facilitate illicit App Store downloads, a new report suggests.
The iPhone manufacturer is sending cease and desist letters to the owners of a popular iPhone hacking online resource.
Hackers have posted a file online that they claim is a confidential glimpse into Symantec’s Norton Antivirus program and have threatened to release source code for the security giant’s flagship antivirus product.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has expressed concerns about recent changes to AOL's Instant Messenger service and recommends that "AIM users do not switch to the new version, as it introduces important privacy-unfriendly features". The EFF met with AOL to discuss its concerns, but says that the company has only in part responded positively.
Think your programming skills are world class? Facebook wants you to prove it at its second annual Hacker Cup challenge.
"Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook," the company said in a blog post announcing this year's competition. "Whether we're building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we're always hacking to find better ways to solve problems."
The race is on. Proving that no gadget is hack-proof, homebrew developers have discovered an exploit in the PS Vita and have used it to get Sega Genesis games running on the handheld.
On the market (Asian) for a little over two weeks, the PS Vita got its first "Hello World" just before the end of 2011 and now, the next level of hacking has begun.
Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) and another iOS hacker known as @themudkip have now managed to port full-resolution iOS applications to a second generation Apple TV.
Yesterday, we told you how the pair had managed to port iOS apps to an Apple TV, and included a video of the hack in-action within our article. However, though this was an incredible achievement, an issue with the hack was that iPhone apps appeared as pop-up windows, and were quite small compared with the HDTV screen.
