Computer security specialists recently showed off a home made drone aircraft capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.Rich Perkins and Mike Tassey built the bright yellow Wireless Arial Surveillance Platform in a garage from a used US Army target drone that they customized to find mobile phones and Internet hotspots.Read more on Gearburn.

Research in Motion has announced the launch of five new handsets, all running the new Blackberry 7 operating system. The five phones are the Torch 9810, the Bold 9900/9930 and the Torch 9850/9860, a full touchscreen device. The refreshed range comes at a crucial time for the Canadian manufacturer, which is doing very well in developing marketings, but is being battered by slowing sales and negative sentiment in the US and Europe.Read more on Gearburn.

Defcon, one of the world's premier annual hacking conferences, has introduced a "Kids Village" aimed at improving the hacking skills of children as young as nine.The Kids Village makes use of experts in the industry such as renowned security consultant and author, Chris Hadnagy. He said that in a world where children are surrounded by technology, guidance must be given to them so that they can legally and safely test their hacking skills. Nine-year old Anna and her brother, 10-year ...

A Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and bounce along the ground.About the size of a beachball and jet black, the remote-controlled Spherical Air Vehicle resembles a tiny Death Star from the Star Wars movies but has a more benign purpose -- to transmit live images from a video camera.Read more on Gearburn.

Hackers at a Defcon gathering were recently shown how a high-security lock, certified for use in sensitive US government facilities, can be easily opened with just a piece of wire.Security specialist Marc Weber Tobias had plans to meet in Switzerland with lock-maker Kaba to discuss ways that the Swiss company's Access Control E-Plex 5800 model and its predecessor can be foiled.Read more at Gearburn.

Hacker group AntiSec is claiming to have "defaced and destroyed" the websites of various US police agencies in retaliation to the arrest of suspected peers accused of hacking into the CIA, Britain's Serious Organised Crimes Agency (SOCA), and Sony.The group backed its claim in a recent post by releasing more than 10 gigabytes of information apparently looted from more than 70 local police agencies during the cyber attacks."We are releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to ...

As Google+ gains user traction, demand from brands that want to engage with their users is going to increase drastically. Some crafty brands have even tried to set up profiles to no avail, with Google+ Product Manager ,Christian Oestlien posting that Google is working on a solution that is an optimal experience both for users and their adored brands. Oestlien goes on to say:Over the next few months we are going to be running a small experiment with a ...

Creating mobile websites which can be viewed on any feature phone or smartphone has gained traction globally. One South African startup is capitalising by offering the service at no cost, while laying claim to a simple drag and drop interface.Mobicanvas is a web tool that helps any business or individual to easily and cheaply build, promote and monetise its own mobile websites, claims Stephen Ballot, one of the company's co-founders.The company promotes an easy-to-use drag and drop ...

Saving your data to the cloud is crucial. The cloud provides what is probably the most reliable way of ensuring that, if your house burns down or your laptop gets stolen, your data won't be lost too. Even more enticing is the ability to access your data from any location with an internet connection. Such features alleviate the need to carry flash sticks and portable hard drives when attempting to get your data for A to B.A disadvantage does, ...

A gaming sensation from a hip little Canadian outfit that is as strange and eerie as it is wonderfully engrossing: old skool graphics and amazing soundtrack, looks like your old Atari, runs on an iPad.Now, before we even begin with this review, I’d like to point out that I am in no way a serious gamer at all. I don’t own any consoles and the last game I finished was Half-Life…the first one (what a game). Reason being that I ...