FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers - Arik Hesseldahl. The FBI has shot down today’s claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.
The FBI computer from which the data was supposedly taken was never hacked, the Bureau said. What’s more, it said it never gathered the information in the first place. Here’s the statement straight from an FBI spokesperson, sent only five minutes ago: The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed.
At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data. On Twitter, the FBI’s press office was a lot less ambiguous: Statement soon on reports that one of our laptops with personal info was hacked. In a message posted to Pastebin earlier today, AntiSec (a.k.a. So where did that document come from really? 1 million iOS device IDs leaked after alleged FBI laptop hack (Updated) One million unique device identifiers (UDIDs) from iOS devices have been posted online by hacking group Antisec, who claimed the UDIDs came from an FBI-owned laptop.
The group published a file containing the UDIDs—as well as push notification tokens, device names, and more—on Monday evening, promising that there are plenty more entries where that came from. Antisec claims the original file contained roughly 12 million UDID entries—some with very personal data attached, such as full names, cell numbers, and home addresses. There has been no official confirmation as of yet that Antisec's UDID list indeed came from an FBI laptop, but Antisec claims to have remotely accessed Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl's data in March 2012 using a Java vulnerability, AtomicReferenceArray. The AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability in Oracle's Java software framework came to light earlier this year after it was being exploited in attacks that installed malware on end-user machines. NPD: Number of US mobile gamers surpasses core, totals down. Mobile Gamers Now Represent the Largest Gamer Segment Port Washington, NY, September 5, 2012 – According to Gamer Segmentation 2012: The New Faces of Gamers, the latest report from leading market research company, The NPD Group, there are an estimated 211.5 million gamers in the U.S. that play video games, a 5 percent decline, or loss of close to 12 million gamers, when compared to 2011.
Of the six gamer segments in the report, only Mobile Gamers and Digital Gamers saw increases in the number of gamers when compared to 2011, with Mobile Gamers up 9 percentage points to 22 percent and Digital Gamers up 4 percentage points to 16 percent. All other gamer segments, which include Core Gamers, Family+Kid Gamers, Light PC Gamers, and Avid PC Gamers, experienced declines, with Family+Kid gamers experiencing the most significant decline of an estimated 17.4 million gamers. Methodology An online survey was fielded in March 2012 to members of NPD's online panel.
Ustream Apologizes For Shutting Down The Hugo Awards Livestream, Says It Will ‘Recalibrate’ Maybe you haven’t heard of the Hugo Awards, but to science fiction geeks, especially print science fiction geeks, they’re a big deal.
They’re given out at the World Science Fiction Convention, and as io9′s Annalee Newitz writes, they’re “kind of like the Academy Awards,” where “careers are made; people get dressed up and give speeches; and celebrities rub shoulders with (admittedly geeky) paparazzi.” Of course, not everyone can attend the convention, held this year in Chicago, but for those of us who couldn’t, we had a chance to follow along the ceremonies last night thanks to live video via Ustream (I probably would’ve been watching if I wasn’t taking my mom out to dinner).
Or at least, fans had a chance to watch the beginning of the ceremony, up until Neil Gaiman was accepting his award in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category. YouTube Flags Democrats' Convention Video on Copyright Grounds. While First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, those who got inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube found the video flagged by copyright claims shortly after it finished.
YouTube, the official streaming partner of the Democratic National Convention, put a copyright blocking message on the livestream video of the event shortly after it ended, which was embedded prominently at BarackObama.com and DemConvention2012. Would-be internet viewers saw a message claiming the stream had been caught infringing on the copyright of one of many possible content companies: This video contains content from WMG, SME, Associated Press (AP), UMG, Dow Jones, New York Times Digital, The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), Warner Chappell, UMPG Publishing and EMI Music Publishing, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.