The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenab...

Jun 15, 2012 by

This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display — and the tech world is buzzing. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides. We disassemble and analyze new electronic gizmos so you don’t have to — kind of like an internet version of Consumer Reports. The Retina...

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House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Measure CI...

Apr 28, 2012 by

Written by David Kravets / Courtesy of Wired.com The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that privacy groups have decried as a threat to civil liberties. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, sponsored by Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), passed on a vote of 248 to 168. Its goal is a more secure internet, but privacy...

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FBI Uses ‘Sledgehammer’ to Seize E-Mail Server in S...

Apr 22, 2012 by

Written By Kim Zetter / Courtesy of Wired.com In an effort to uncover the source of bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized an entire server on Wednesday that is used by anonymous remailing service Mixmaster as well as several progressive rights groups. The server was seized from a co-location facility in New York with a search...

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Latest Mac Malware Attack Is a Wake-Up Call for OS ...

Apr 18, 2012 by

By Christina Bonnington / Courtesy of Wired.com Mac users were once relatively insulated from malware attacks, if only because their OS platform didn’t attract the attention of criminals. But now a spike in security threats is making it clear that the bad guys are no longer ignoring Apple’s OS X. The latest Mac security threat, a variant of the “LuckyCat” attack, takes advantage of an...

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