AA Russian firm has been handed a £50,000 ($79,500) fine and ordered to repay all UK customers for marketing a dubious Android app that generated a £10 premium rate £10 SMS charge simply for downloading it. According to ...
Tags: Android app, PhonePayPlus, phone service, smartphone
A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The malware, nicknamed “Dockster,” is a backdoor that allows an attacker to control the victim’s ...
Tags: Apple, botnets, Dockster, highlightedpost, malware, Web attacks
It has been reported that detectives from the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested three people in connection with using ransomware to blackmail people. It has been alleged that computer users were targeted and led to believe ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft launched a new anti-piracy campaign in China to highlight the security risks of buying counterfeit software. In a recent investigation,Microsoft purchased 169 PCs from shops in China and found that all were ...
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It is reported that the situation for mining and steel companies in Karnataka continues to be grim despite the Supreme Court order allowing some of the mines to resume operations. Delays in getting clearances from government bodies and in ...
Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). Further reading Paypal: Big data is a scam Businesses ...
The people at PETA must sleep at night dreaming up scamming visions designed to finagle you–the John Q.Public–to hand over your hard-earned money to support its anti-meat,pro-vegetarian agenda. In case you've been practicing ...
Tags: PETA, finagle, pro-vegetarian, animal
IDG News Service-Microsoft is linking malicious software analysts with online advertising fraud experts in an effort to disrupt click fraud,a scam where advertisers pay for worthless clicks. The Microsoft Malware Protection ...
Times of India reported that the Bombay HC directed the MRA Marg police, who are probing a fake iron ore certificate scam, to give a 72 hour notice to four directors of Raipur based Hira Steels Ltd before arresting them. While giving the ...
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Online payment service provider PayPal is set to expand its focus on mobile following a huge increase in activity from smartphones and tablets during yesterday's Cyber Monday sales. Cyber Monday follows retailers'Black Friday sales ...
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Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
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While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
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Digital word of mouth provides the most effective advertising,and businesses with a presence on three or more social networks have 50 per cent better user engagement than others. Further reading Facebook:Mobile is our'Home Alone'moment ...
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Oracle president Mark Hurd has stated that his firm is focusing on the banking sector,which he said has a combination of extremely large IT budgets,and often outmoded systems and applications. "One of the core assets of banks is ...
Mark Hurd has used his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today to outline the four main pillars of Oracle's strategy. "First,we want everything to be best of breed at every level of the technollogy stack.We want ...
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