Barnes & Noble Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Article On “Hacking”

May 4, 2012 | Steven

Learn to Hack pulled from Barnes and Noble – TuxRadar

We’ve just learned that issue 154 of Linux Format, the one with ‘Learn to Hack’ on the cover, was removed from Barnes and Noble bookstores in the US after a complaint was … Read More

Yes folks, hell has indeed frozen over and it’s Microsoft’s fault.

August 5, 2011 | Steven

At one time you could be guaranteed to make everyone in the room break out into gales of laughter, especially if it was a room full of security experts, by combining Microsoft and security in the same sentence.

Well it seems … Read More

Awww, a techie feel good moment – Microsoft to nurture 14-year-old hacker

May 28, 2011 | Steven

Take that Sony.

Seriously though the news that Microsoft has taken a 14-year-old hacker under its wing after discovering he was responsible for a recent hacking of of the popular Modern Warfare 2 online game on the Xbox network.

Unlike … Read More

Believe it or not: Hacking is a core part of Microsoft

December 2, 2010 | Steven

Hacking Microsoft products isn’t something that a lot of people think about but even the most modest of Windows tweakers are following a tradition that has been a core part of Microsoft’s heritage from almost the very beginning of the … Read More

Microsoft not interested in prosecuting Kinect ‘hackers’

November 23, 2010 | Kit Dotson

English can be a very dangerous language to speak in if you happen to be a politician—or a major corporation. Earlier this month, Microsoft came out fulminating against computer programmers, DIYers, and others who wanted to modify and reuse the … Read More