A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them anonymously, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of ...
Tags: cloud computing, Mobile browser hack, mobile device threat, smartphone
Attackers can abuse the way browsers and other applications handle steam:// protocol URLs in order to exploit serious vulnerabilities in the Steam client or games installed through the platform, according to researchers from startup ...
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IDG News Service - Google is letting more App Engine users choose to run their applications in a European data center, in order to improve performance for local users or to meet compliance demands. App Engine is Google's cloud-based ...
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The 'CRIME' attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure) traffic, one of the attack's creators ...
Tags: CRIME attack, data compression scheme, TLS, SPDY protocols, HTTPS
IDG News Service - Facebook has launched a new version of its app for Android smartphones that promises users speedier access to their messages, timeline and news. The app marks a rewrite of several major parts of the Facebook software to ...
Tags: Computer Products, Facebook, Android App, engineering blog
Facebook has denied news reports of a major privacy breach involving users who saw their private messages from 2009 and before suddenly appearing on their viewable Timeline as messages posted by their friends. Users reported seeing their ...
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The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The ...
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Facebook is moving to fix one of its biggest problems - finding ways to make money from its growing base of mobile users. The social network Wednesday said that it's trying out a new mobile ad system and is calling on Facebook app ...
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Google has begun testing a search feature that mines relevant emails from users' Gmail accounts and displays links to them in the results page. To use the feature, users would need to be logged in to their Google account and the Gmail ...
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Twitter is getting a new look and it's looking a lot like Facebook. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo showed the site's redesign on the Today Show in the U.S. yesterday and talked about putting a new focus on user photos and profiles. ...
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Mozilla today launched Firefox 15, boasting that users will see "drastic improvements in performance" because of new code that stops add-ons from leaking memory. The open-source developer also patched 31 vulnerabilities, 23 of them dubbed ...
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You don't have to be a technical genius to keep your computer operating as smoothly and as quickly as it did the day you brought it home. Is that a startling revelation? If you answered yes to that question, "Why Is My PC So Slow?" is ...
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Two years after it managed to place a browser-related app on the iOS App Store, Mozilla last week announced it was retiring Firefox Home and yanked it from Apple's market. The move was only the latest in a string of messages that the ...
Tags: iOS App Store, Mozilla, Firefox Home, Apple's market
Little Nut Tree Toys Billed as an ‘independent traditional online toy shop’, Little Nut Tree Toys is an inviting, perky website with an appealing colour pallete that befits a toy shop. The landing page features a ...
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RteamKz, a company specializing in search engines offers the development and improvement of the PDF Search Books website to assist customers with access to the inventory of more than 35 million digital products. World Wide Web, 8-06-2012, ...
Tags: search engine, PDF Search Books, digital product, website search tool