David Mitnick: “The Condor”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Kevin David Mitnick (a.k.a The Condor) BORN: August 6, 1963 WHERE: Los Angeles OCCUPATION: Computer consultant and Author What did he do? At age 12, Mitnick used social engineering to by pass the punch card system used in the Los Angeles bus system. After a friendly bus driver told him where he could […]
A man called as “Dark Dante”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Kevin Poulsen (a.k.a. Dark Dante) BORN: 1965 WHERE: Pasadena, California OCCUPATION: Senior Editor at Wired News When Kevin Poulsen was 17, he used his primitive TRS-80 “color computer” to hack into the US Department of Defense’s Arpanet, the predecessor of the Internet. He wasn’t prosecuted. He was later a computer programmer at […]
“From pen to keyboard”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Eric Gordon Corley (a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein) BORN: December 16, 1959 WHERE: Suffolk County, New York OCCUPATION: Writer, Editor, Publisher, Talk Show host Corley’s pseudonym, Emmanuel Goldstein, is taken from the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four. In which, Emmanuel Goldstein is the mysterious and questionably existent leader of the opposition to Big Brother […]
The man who found-out the “computer outlaw”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Tsutomu Shimomura BORN: October 23, 1964 WHERE: Nagoya, Japan OCCUPATION: Physicist and Programmer Tsutomu shimomura was the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton New Jersey and there he attended at Princeton High School. At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. […]
US Governments Sites, Taken Down by Anonymous
Anonymous have struck again. Once again taking down government websites as a form of protests. They always have a reason for these “attacks”. They have said that they would always have a reason to protest against the government. They don’t take down websites for no reason at all. The hacker group has been very active […]
PCOS Tests satisfied Comelec’s Expectations
The Precinct Count Optical Scan or PCOS machines have been used by the Comelec to automate the counting of votes during elections. The first time it was used was at last year’s election. It drew a lot of controversies being that it would be a huge leap for the Philippines since it came from having a manual votes […]
The stage is set for GOOGLE PHILIPPINES
After long years of waiting, Google is now setting its fifth stage on Southeast Asian region in the Philippines, following consecutive establishment of bases in Malaysia, Thailand, and most recently Indonesia over the past several years, aside from its regional Singapore office. Google launched the opening of Google Philippines Wednesday, January 23, 2013 in Taguig […]
Sony: Ditching the Dual Shock Design?
Sony has been well known for creating home entertainment devices. One of the most popular devices that they have created is the Playstation (PS 1) gaming console. This was first introduced on December 3, 1994. It sold at around 100 million units after 9 years and 6 months from its initial release. On January 31, […]
Hacktivists Made an Impression Before the Hearing
On January 14, 2013, the “Hacktivists” group Anonymous Philippines defaced the website of the National Food Authority (NFA) in order to draw attention to the CyberCrime Law. This is not the first website that the group have defaced. A number of activists or petitioners have pointed out that this law would make it easier for the government […]
Pokemon X and Y: Coming to the 3DS!
Nintendo has announced the coming of the latest and first ever 3D entries into the Pokemon gaming franchise, Pokemon X and Y. These games are said to be released on October 2013 across the world simultaneously, a first for the series. Both of these games are the sixth-generation of the long and famous series. In the […]
