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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Girls Around Me app both creepy and sobering

An application that briefly appeared on the iTunes store allowed users to physically track down single women and send them messages. But the app only worked because of sloppy privacy practices. Girls Around Me, which has just been pulled from the app store by Russian developers i-Free, worked entirely from publicly available information. It did [...]

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Source: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/04/03/girls-around-me-app-both-creepy-and-sobering/

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So What Exactly Can Location Aggregators Do With Our Foursquare Data?

Foursquare says Banjo and Sonar can aggregate users' location data, but Girls Around Me couldn't. What's the difference?

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120403/so-what-exactly-can-location-aggregators-do-with-our-foursquare-data/

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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Associated Content's Luke Beatty, as Restructuring Looms

In yet another high-level executive departure, Luke Beatty, the founder of the Associated Content unit that the Silicon Valley Internet giant bought several years ago for $90 million, is departing.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120402/exclusive-yahoo-loses-associated-contents-luke-beatty/

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Tour an 8-bit America with Google Maps tweak

Most online April Fool’s jokes are, to put it as kindly as possible, awful. Of all the companies that try to put creative “pranks” together, however, Google is among the best at managing April Fool’s stunts that are geeky enough to be laughed at in a good way rather than an uncomfortable, “I can’t believe someone thought this would be clever” way. This year, Google cooked up a creative new feature for Google Maps that lets users tour America with 8-bit graphics that will make any NES fan shed a nostalgic�tear. As an added bonus, the Zelda-like U.S. landscape in this new version of Maps transforms into an 8-bit Street View when the user zooms in all the way. A

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/02/tour-an-8-bit-america-with-google-maps-tweak/

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Hackers steal 1.5 million card numbers in huge MasterCard, Visa breach

Hackers stole credit card numbers belonging to as many as 1.5 million MasterCard and Visa customers, Global Payments, Inc. confirmed on Sunday. The international credit card processor was blocked by Visa after it reported the possibility of a major security breach on Friday. The company did not indicate how the hackers gained access to its system or who might be responsible for the attack.�”Based on the forensic analysis to date, network monitoring and additional security measures, the company believes that this incident is contained,” the firm told The Wall Street Journal while noting that cardholder names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not compromised. The company did say that the credit card numbers were downloaded during the attack rather than

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/02/hackers-steal-1-5-million-card-numbers-in-huge-mastercard-visa-breach/

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Overloaded plasma panel creates awesome light show

The video above is the very definition of the cliche “don’t try this at home.” Created by YouTube user Aussie50, it depicts his effort to see how long an LG plasma television can hold up to the stress of being overloaded electrically by an ultra-powerful microwave transformer before burning out. Before you start to complain [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/overloaded-plasma-panel-creates-awesome-light-show-20120331/

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Visa drops Global Payments following theft of 1.5 million card numbers

Following a massive security breach, Visa has dropped Global Payments from its registry of providers that meet data security standards, The Associated Press reported on Monday. Global Payments CEO Paul Garcia said that the company will continue to process Visa transactions, however being dropped from the registry “could give our partners some pause that they’re doing business with someone who experienced a breach.” Garcia fully expects his company to be reinstated once it has been issued a new report of compliance, although he declined to specify when that might happen. The CEO maintains that the situation is “absolutely contained” and is being fully investigated. Global Payments confirmed on Sunday that hackers stole credit card numbers belonging to as many as

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/02/visa-drops-global-payments-following-theft-of-1-5-million-card-numbers/

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