From noodle bars to housekeeping services, personal spending is spreading cheer to the nooks and crannies of the Japanese economy. The Bank of Japan's December Tankan survey of business sentiment showed a major improvement in confidence ...
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On any given day cybercriminals and nation states are in possession of as many as 100 zero-day software exploits known only to them, NSS Labs has calculated using the commercial vulnerability market as a baseline. NSS Labs research ...
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Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Unlike other bug bounty programmes, the ...
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NBTY, a US-based manufacturer and distributor of vitamins and nutritional supplements, has unveiled a new vitamin manufacturing facility in San Antonio, Texas. The investment is a part of the company's strategy to boost its capacity in ...
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As anticipated, the latest round of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday monthly release of security fixes addresses a widely known Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability already being exploited by malicious hackers. Overall, for October’s ...
Google said Wednesday it plans to reward developers for developing proactive security improvements for some of the most widely used open-source software programs. The program aims to “improve the security of key third-party software ...
Widmer Brothers Brewing has introduced a new filtered American-style wheat beer - Krystal Pear - as part of the Feast Portland event that will take place from 19-22 September 2013. Krystal Pear is brewed, fermented and bottled entirely ...
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Facebook has blamed a misunderstanding for an embarrassing incident last week in which founder Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline was hacked to draw attention to a security flaw a researcher believed was being ignored by firm. As QEDs go, what ...
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After a Palestinian researcher was denied a bug bounty by Facebook, Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, kicked off a crowd-sourced fund yesterday to come up with a reward. The researcher, Khalil Shreateh, expressed his gratitude today to ...
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Microsoft has directly accused Google of sabotaging the YouTube app on the Windows Phone platform with "impossible roadblocks", accusing the web company - which owns the video streaming network - of demanding unnecessary development ...
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Window's new Phone App Studio service has received 30,000 applications in the first 48 hours following its announcement. By the end of last week, the service had received a demand far greater than Microsoft expected, and the company had ...
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Facebook's "Bug Bounty" programme has paid out $1m in total to users-turned-security-bug-hunters in the past two years, with the youngest recipient being a 13-year-old boy. The largest single "bounty" has been $20,000, and two recipients ...
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The San Francisco Bay is a frenzy of rapturous seagulls, cormorants so gorged they can barely take flight, sea lions bellowing and porpoises?spinning. The herring have returned to?spawn. Humans are getting in on the action, too. A ...
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Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
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Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...