Reporters Without Borders named five countries that regularly spy on journalists and dissidents, a practice the group contends is made possible with advanced technology from private companies. The Paris-based group, which is an ...
Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, according to a Google security researcher. "The Apple App Store and associated ...
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Google has struck a deal with US authorities to pay a $US7 million fine for collecting people's personal data without authorization as it combed neighborhoods for its Street View service. In a legal settlement with 38 US States, the ...
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Fears over the safety of personal financial information held by call centres has prompted six million people a year to move their business elsewhere. Banks, phone companies and retailers are the big losers due to customer concerns over ...
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The Seagate Wireless Plus Seagate on Monday launched two new wireless hard drives for the Middle Eastern consumer market, the Wireless Plus and the Central. The Wireless Plus can be considered a successor to the Seagate GoFlex ...
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Pirated software is costing industry in excess of $114 billion, according to a new IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. Though many consumers and businesses purchase and download pirated software purposely as a way of saving money, the ...
Finland-based F-Secure said in a report that the free Google operating system, which has been gaining smartphone market share globally, has become the dominant platform targetted by hackers. "Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new ...
Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year. The data ...
The company is the latest to be attacked after recent cyber attacks on Apple, Facebook and Twitter. Evernote's security team discovered suspicious activity in its network which attempted to access secure areas of its service. Evernote ...
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Evernote is speeding up its plans to offer two-factor authentication to users following a recent data breach that exposed user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The company, which makes note-taking software, disclosed on its ...
Evernote, developer of business and consumer productivity software for note taking and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 million users to change their passwords after detecting a hacker intrusion on its systems. The attacker gained ...
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Evernote, which makes business and consumer productivity software for things like taking notes and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 million users to change their passwords after detecting a hacker intrusion on its sytem. The ...
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Every day new applications appear on the world's mobile communications networks and user behaviour keeps adapting to new ways of streaming video, sharing files and communicating. New business demands, such as traffic monetisation, must ...
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Microsoft has disclosed that it recently fell victim to the same type of cyberattack that targeted Apple and Facebook. "During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that were ...
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Mozilla will automatically block third-party cookies starting with Firefox 22, which is slated to ship this summer, according to the Stanford University researcher who coded the change. The move, which will make it more difficult for ...
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