Access to software collaboration site GitHub appeared to be restored in China on Wednesday, just as former Google executive Kai-Fu lee criticized its blocking as a senseless move that would harm the nation's developers. GitHub, a U.S. ...
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International packaging and paper group Mondi will introduce its inkjet portfolio at the 2013 Hunkeler Innovationdays, which will be held from 11-15 February in Lucerne, Switzerland. Mondi will display its smooth, recycled, off-white and ...
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The weekend saw Dropbox users frustrated by issues with syncing and uploading files, as well as creating shareable links. The issues became so severe that the stability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) was called into question. According to a ...
Following Google’s recent upgrade of Chrome, a new wave of bogus updates has been set upon the Internet by cyber criminals looking to steal online banking credentials and cause other problems for users. Google released its upgrade ...
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Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major U.S. banks, a number of security experts now say that there is not enough evidence to assign the blame ...
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Technology firms including Google,Apple,eBay and Yahoo were among almost 300 companies whose websites were hit by a hack attack in Pakistan. The attack,which exploited vulnerabilities in domain name systems(DNS)to redirect ...
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20,000 PCs in the UK could be cut off from the web on Monday 9 July 2012, as a consequence of the DNS Changer virus. Infected machines will no longer be able to access websites, e-mail, chat or social networking sites such as Facebook, ...
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Three widely deployed payment terminals have vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to steal credit card data and PIN numbers, according to a pair of security researchers from penetration testing firm MWR InfoSecurity in the U.K. The ...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it would take up to December to come up with a process for handling the large number of applications for gTLDs (generic top-level domains). There are close to 2,000 ...
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IDG News Service - Well Fargo urged its customers on Thursday to visit bank branches or use telephone banking due to continuing problems with its website. In a statement, a bank spokeswoman described the issue as "an unusually high volume ...
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A recent study by four UCLA documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- that users can be charged for wireless data they never received. In the most extreme case of overcharging, an unnamed carrier charged the ...
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iMessage, the Apple messaging technology that the company has urged customers use to avoid an SMS spoofing bug, remains under a patent litigation cloud, with a trial slated for November. Last week, a researcher known for uncovering iPhone ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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Facebook has begun warning users whose computers are infected with the DNSChanger malware, a variant of the Zlob family of Trojans. The malware is designed to tell the infected computer to use a rogue Domain Name System (DNS) server, ...
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Monday, 9 July, was supposed to be 'Internet Doomsday' when the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to shut down servers associated with the DNSChanger malware. As a result, computers infected with this threat were to be cut off ...
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