Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
EU Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has raised her concerns over the Prism surveillance information-sharing programme with the US Attorney General Eric Holder, who she is to meet in Dublin on Friday. In a statement on her website, ...
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EE is continuing to roll out its 4G service in the UK, today switching on coverage in Ashton-under-Lyne, Chatham, Gillingham, High Wycombe, Merthyr Tydfil, Oldham, Oxford, Rochester, Runcorn, Sale, Stafford and Wigan. EE says this now ...
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Shipments of PCs are expected to fall by almost eight per cent this year, as users move towards tablets and smartphones. That's according to research by analysts at IDC, who expect total combined worldwide shipments for desktop and ...
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The founder of Liberty Reserve, an online digital currency and payments system based in Costa Rica, has been arrested and charged with money laundering. Further reading Retailers looking to cut Visa and other 'middlemen' out of the ...
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Google has revealed a new version of Google Maps, designed to make it personal to each user. Built with the ethos of "a map for every person and place", new features will include real-time displays of barriers to journeys - such as ...
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Google has denied accusations from MPs that it minimises the amount of tax paid in Britain, claiming that all sales staff operate out of Dublin rather than being based in the UK. Google's sales in the UK are worth £3.2bn, but the ...
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Teaching engineers cyber security skills is vital in order to protect the UK's critical national infrastructure, according to cyber expert at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Hugh Boyes. The IET is trying to raise ...
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Google has been recalled to give evidence about its UK tax arrangements to parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for a second time. Google's auditor, Ernst & Young, will also be required to provide further evidence. It comes after ...
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Security experts speaking at Infosecurity Europe 2013 said that raising employees' awareness of cyber risks is a vital element of their incident response strategies, and urged firms to give staff incentives to learn security best practice. ...
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The £650m over four years that the government allocated to cyber security in 2010 was recently branded "embarrassing" by Bob Ayres, a former intelligence officer at the US Department of Defense, in an interview with Computing, and ...
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The UK's biggest mobile network has claimed that its 4G customer base of 318,000 shows a "strong 4G take-up", as it disclosed its results for the first quarter to 31 March 2013. The firm, established by a joint venture between France ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has commented on the firm's controversial ban on working on home for the first time since the policy was introduced in February. Giving the closing keynote at the Great Place to Work conference in Los Angeles, ...
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Google has submitted a package of concessions to the European Commission (EC) as it attempts to avoid a fine following an antitrust investigation. Over the past two and a half years, European Union (EU) competition regulators have been ...
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A Chinese hacking ring, which has been active for four years, has been stealing data from players of more than 30 massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing games. That's according to research by security software vendor Kaspersky ...
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