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Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades
January 29th, 2012 | 
Author: ‘Very bright kids’ too bright for their own good
Three high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to their classmates.
The students are accused of breaking into the janitor’s office of California’s Palos Verdes High School and making a copy of the master key, giving them access to all the classrooms. They then attached keylogging hardware to the computers of four teachers, and harvested the passwords needed to access the central files of the school network.
They then used that access to change their grades slightly, nudging them up by increments so that all three got As. At the time they were caught, keyloggers were found on three other teachers’ systems, indicating the group was expanding its efforts.
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RIM demos PlayBook OS2
Finally, native email… a month from now
CES 2012 PlayBook owners should be getting native email next month, but as RIM’s tablet gains independence it’s also shifting away from the infrastructure which has served RIM so well.
RIM has been demonstrating the latest version of its PlayBook OS at CES, and has finally got native PIM applications running on the tablet – including email, contacts and calendar. But the PlayBook goes a good deal further in providing a universal inbox for all one’s communications, as well as putting LinkedIn contacts on a par with business associates.
Hands cold on Your Smart Phone?
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The cold weather has now returned. This means cold fingers, especially when your mobile rings or when you need to reply to an e-mail on your iPad. But it doesn’t have to be like that!
Sandberg’s new Touch Screen Gloves are stylish, woven gloves with conductive fibres stitched into the lining of the fingertips. These fibres conduct electricity and, like the skin on your fingers, can provide the induction needed to operate a touchscreen.
In other words, you can keep your gloves on when using your mobile. So you can stay warm and in touch at the same time.
Available in Black, Pink and White
Priced @ £14.16 inc VAT |
Kodak to file for bankruptcy says WSJ
Veteran film company Eastman Kodak is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy protection according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The company has been trying to sell off a raft of imaging patents to raise cash with the company earlier warning that it would be unable to survive if it couldn’t raise $500 million either by credit or selling off patents.
If the company fails it will be a sad end for the 131-year-old film pioneer that once invented the digital camera. That said, Kodak never managed to successfully move the business to digital, instead choosing to focus on chemicals for traditional photography.
