Knock-off Nokia Lumia 920 appears in India
A knock-off Lumia 920, called the Lamia R920, has appeared in India for around US$82, packing a wonderful 4.5-inch display and a huge 200 kB of internal memory. Don't expect Windows Phone though. More...
A knock-off Lumia 920, called the Lamia R920, has appeared in India for around US$82, packing a wonderful 4.5-inch display and a huge 200 kB of internal memory. Don't expect Windows Phone though. More...
For once a cheap rip-off phone is not loaded with fake iOS or Android, but instead fake Windows Phone! This absolutely fantastic Lemon Dual SIM Mobile T109 is sure to attract many buyers More...
If you stopped by Google Play earlier today, you just might've had a chance to pick up some Apple designed apps for your Android device. Did hell freeze over? As it turns out, no, it did not. More...
In a new SEC filing, Facebook admitted that 8.7 percent of its subscribers numbers are duplicates, misclassified or "undesirable", meaning that it has a total of over 83 million "fake" accounts. More...
Earlier this week, there were reports from various bloggers regarding the discovery of fake Apple Stores in the Chinese city of Kunming. Thanks to American blogger BirdAbroad, Chinese officials have begun an investigation into all... More...
An American blogger who lives in China has made a rather unusual discovery; a fake Apple Store found in the remote Chinese city of Kunming. In the store itself, a variety of Apple products are... More...
With so many Windows 8 screenshots floating around, it's very hard to tell fact from fiction. Unless you have inside knowledge by knowing the person who leaks you information, or are the one actually leaking... More...
It might have been a bit of an easy victory for Apple if the string of rogue antiviruses targeting Mac OS X with names such as "MAC Defender," "MAC Protector," and "MAC Security" stopped on... More...
Remember this fake antivirus, MAC Defender, that was making its rounds amongst Mac users earlier this month? Despite its simple payload and method of execution -- which requires manual intervention on the part of the... More...
Before anyone is alarmed by the headline and the screenshot shown below - don't panic! While it appears to be yet another new case in the uncharted waters of malware existing on Mac OS X,... More...
Just in time for this weekend, there appears to be a humourous story making its rounds on several news sites. You are probably all too familiar with some malicious eBay sellers selling portable electronics -... More...
Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers... More...
It appeared for sometime that the Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama followed the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI to use the latest technology to attract the tech-savy youths and joined twitter. The twitter account was... More...
Update: Carbonite have now responded to Neowin here. It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those... More...
Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the... More...
Corporations live and die off consumer reviews and when your product isn't getting the remarks you had hoped for what do you do? Well if you are Belkin apparently you pay people, 65... More...
Microsoft today unveiled it's "Retail Experience Center". The experience center is like a real Microsoft store but unfortunately it's fake. This store acts, feels and functions like a real store and was built at Microsoft's... More...
A French court has ordered eBay to pay a 40m euro fine (£36.1m; $63m) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing fake copies of its goods to be auctioned on the site. The case was... More...
The detective agency used by the Motion Picture Association of America has attempted to lure file sharers to a fake download site that installs spyware on their PCs. The MiiVi.com site offered downloads of complete... More...
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin,... More...
The problem of finding "Bluetooth" devices in shops which turn out not to be genuine was highlighted a couple of years ago, by Ezurio (then TDK) - but the Bluetooth SIG has decided that "pressure... More...
According to local press, forged Maxtor MaXLine II hard disk drives have been making their way into the Japanese market. Alleged fakes feature a 320GB capacity while Maxtor only produces 250GB and 300GB varieties... More...
A worm that modifies a user's HOSTS file to redirect visitors of Google.com to a spoof website has been discovered. The worm was found by Panda Labs and is currently circulating on P2P networks Shareaza... More...
A number of recent stories released on the internet purporting to show images of Nintendo's forthcoming next generation console, dubbed 'Revolution', and its tech demos have been uncovered as fakes. The first supposed leak was... More...
Like day follows night, a bogus "cumulative update" with a malicious attachment has followed Microsoft's patch day. In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are taking advantage of the heightened public... More...
Users are being warned to watch out for a fake Microsoft security update. Circulating as an e-mail the fake message points people at a bogus website that claims to host critical security updates. But anyone... More...
Macworld UK has learned of a dangerous malware that deletes the Home folder on a Mac. The file is cunningly disguised as a Word 2004 for Mac demo – from the forthcoming Office 2004 for... More...
Gabe Newell sent us a mail letting us supposedly know that the 'news' posted on Shacknews yesterday (story) is a fake and that Half-Life 2 has gone Gold and in production now. Here's the official... More...
Phone retailers are about to discover that they risk legal action for selling fake Bluetooth gear. Over 50% of Bluetooth equipment on sale in the UK is counterfeit, according to a survey. And that figure... More...
SonyStyle customers should not respond to fraudulent request for personal info. Sony has warned consumers to beware of fake spam email bearing the subject title 'SonyStyle user and email address'. The electronics giant said yesterday... More...
A website that published fake news stories from CNN has been taken offline after receiving a threatening legal letter from the cable network alleging copyright and trademark infringement. The Fake CNN News Generator was online... More...
Nintendo game consoles were the runaway favorite of smugglers! Customs officers in the 15 EU member states seized about 750,000 fake Nintendo products. No breakdown of the category was available, but an... More...
Thanks Darren Bolton for this sending this in. Counterfeit Compaq Computer Corp. parts were seized in New Hampshire after the company was contacted by a customer who received suspect memory boards from an... More...
I saw a link to this story at Newsgeek.net, here it goes... On Thursday, federal authorities told AP that undercover investigators surfing the Internet bought more than 900 black-market law enforcement badges, to... More...
While watching TechTV this morning (with a nasty cold I might add! :S), I noticed this story on fake software that was grabbed by authorities on LA after an 18 month investigation. Law... More...