Anonymous has posted names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Monsanto employees, and is promising action against Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands, Imperial Oil, the Royal Bank of Scotland and others.

In the case of Monsanto, the hacker group has posted information about 2,500 employees and affiliates of Monsanto and claim to have taken down corporate websites and mail servers, according to Sophos Naked Security.

Anonymous didn’t indicate how it broke into the network but mentioned that port 6666, used for IRC chat, was opened.

Find more info…

When we talk super-hot laptop deals, most of the time were talking about a lower end model that has last years chipset in it for a great price. These are good laptops at great prices, but the other end of the spectrum of laptop deals includes the incredible new features and performance found in a new laptop.

Dells XPS 15z is one such machine, featuring a brand new chassis and the latest technology stuffed inside it. As one would expect, youll find the now ubiquitous and still surprisingly powerful Sandy Bridge platform with a Core i5 or i7 processor.

Find more info…

Ive never seen anything quite like what has been done to the Nook Color. Modders and hackers the world over have been fiddling with mobile phones for years. The primary thing that has come from those mods has been adding features or updates that extend the functional life of the device. For the Nook Color, however, the device got completely re-purposed into a vastly more functional and enjoyable device. T

Find more info…

If you have been longing to buy the top notch Intel P67 board, you should hold your horses and check out the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 mainboard.

Gigabyte seems to have chosen the Z68 chipset for its high end board, enhancing the feature set on P67 with a subset of the Z68 feature. The Intel Smart Response Technology that caches and speed up your disk access.

With GIGABYTE EZ Smart Response it does all of this automatically, without users having to perform a complicated install process. This allows them to quickly and effortlessly enjoy a significant boost in system performance.

Find more info…

Sony has been forced to suspend the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity password reset web pages after discovering a flaw that could be exploited by hackers.

The beleaguered company firmly denied that its networks had come under fresh hacker attacks as it begins to restore services after a massive data breach in April of up to 100 million users’ details.

“We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity password reset page,” said Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold in a PlayStation blog update.

“Contrary to some reports, there was no hack involved. In the process of resetting of passwords there was a URL exploit that we have subsequently fixed,” he said.

Find more info…