Following similar disclosures from companies such as Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs ...
Following similar disclosures from companies like Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs to ...
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Harvard University officials on Monday scrambled to contain the fallout from a damaging report in The Boston Globe over the weekend disclosing how administrators secretly accessed email accounts belonging to 16 resident deans at the ...
A botnet that has been in the eye of researchers for years continues to serve up malware, spam and fake antivirus software, according to research by Trend Micro. The security vendor released a 30-page paper on Asprox, a long-running ...
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The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a similar revelation from its competitor The New York Times. The Journal, which is owned by ...
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Yahoo has started providing webmail users the option of using a secure connection, matching a similar feature Google and Microsoft have offered for several years. Yahoo’s delay in providing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection ...
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A consortium of UK universities will research the challenges associated with the use of IT as a utility as part of a£1.5m investment by the Research Council. The University of Southampton will establish a research network of ...
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Phishing attacks are moving from targeting a few key employees in businesses to much wider groups of employees, according to corporate security awareness training company PhishMe. "Once they are in, attackers are using what they learn ...
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Google on Tuesday rolled out version 2.0 of Gmail for iOS, a redesigned upgrade that supports up to five email accounts on Apple's iPhone and iPad. Matthew Izatt, Google's Gmail product manager, announced the update yesterday in a blog ...
Yahoo today said it has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one of its many services. The company also provided more information about whose passwords had been pilfered. "We have...now fixed ...
As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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In the wake of a multi-faceted hack of a technology reporter that ended with his smartphone, tablet and notebook wiped of all data, Google's spam chief yesterday urged users to set two-factor authentication on their log-ins. "I ... advise ...
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Recently selected as the top 10 start-ups at Asian technology summit, Echelon '12, Dropmyemail is an award-winning cloud email backup and migration solution. After a few whirlwind months since the launch of Dropmyemail at DEMO Asia '12, the ...
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Steve DelBianco is worried that the U.S. Congress will soon pass a law allowing states to collect sales taxes from most online sellers. An expected push for online sales tax legislation in Congress in 2013 is a "clear and present danger ...
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More American adults use their smartphones and other cell phones to take pictures and to send texts than to download apps or do online banking, according to a Pew Research survey. The study, released Sunday, found that 82% of Americans ...
Tags: internet, Internet banking, Picture messaging, Smartphone survey