An advertisement circulating on Facebook and Twitter for a desktop version of the photo-sharing application Instagram is a scam, according to security vendor Symantec. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is only available for mobile ...
Tags: PC, Computer Products
USERS of Linux who subscribe to the online forums of popular strain Ubuntu have been urged to change their passwords after hackers stole up to 1.82 million user names and passwords. This especially applies to Linux users who use the ...
Oracle's recent upgrade to its online forums has divided the portal's many users, with some saying the update brings welcome changes but others claiming it is bug-riddled and inferior to its predecessor. After the revamped Oracle ...
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THE rarely heard underwater sounds of the Great Barrier Reef are now being captured by a cutting-edge acoustic recorder. The JASCO Applied Sciences Autonomous Multichannel Acoustic Recorder Generation 3 (AMAR G3), which is moored at a ...
Tags: Electronics, Computer Products
Lenovo this week offered a peek under the covers on a new consumer cloud storage service called Lenovo Reach, which it said will allow users to securely access their cloud-based files and applications from any device via a single login ID. ...
WHILE Melburnians love their food it seems that residents of Australia?s northern cities are in love with themselves, the first survey of Instagram?s million local users reveals. So called ?selfies? were the top choice of picture Sydney, ...
Microsoft and the FBI have combined forces to strike a major blow against one of the world's biggest cyber crime networks, responsible for stealing more than $500m (£323m) from bank accounts. Aided by authorities in more than 80 ...
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Threats from malware specifically targeting social media and the number of spam emails have both risen significantly in the first quarter of this year. That's according to the McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2013, which reveals that ...
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Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication. Users of the professional social-networking site now have the option to add two-step verification to their ...
TECHNOLOGY professionals are still not getting the message when it comes to ensuring that company systems are compliant with privacy legislation. System privacy specialist and consultant Stephen Wilson said that most technicians and ...
Using a new API announced by Amazon Web Services, developers can use Amazon.com, Facebook, or Google's sign-in systems for their cloud-based apps. Amazon calls the concept web identity federation, and the new AWS Security Token Service ...
SHARES in specialist telecoms construction firm Service Stream crashed to an all-time low yesterday as the company failed to rally against the negative fallout of breaching its banking covenants. Service Stream shares touched a record low ...
Much-hacked social networking site Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication in a bid to cut down on the hijacking of accounts. The move follows a string of hacks of high-profile accounts by groups such as the ...
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A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal their credentials, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Citadel is a ...
Tags: Payza, Payment Platform, Computer Products
Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service. The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle "@Reckz0r," wrote on Pastebin that Microsoft ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products, Claim Xbox