Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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Google upgraded its Search Appliance for the enterprise to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organisations. Google Search Appliance 7.0, which went on sale Oct. 16, is designed to allow administrators to add ...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are up in arms about the last-minute changes made to policy on the newly-enforced cookie law. Since 26 May, UK website owners have been required by law to ensure the sites obtain users' opt-in ...
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Microsoft has released further information on a patch for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects versions IE6 to IE9. The Internet Explorer maker has made available a "fix-it" that uses its application compatibility ...
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Despite Facebook users losing out on a privacy policy vote earlier this week,the social network moved today to make its privacy tools easier for users to take advantage of. Facebook updated its privacy settings,adding shortcuts,an ...
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Google’s Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data centres based in either the U.S. or Europe. The performance upgrade allows enterprises ...
Citrix has extended the XenApp product lifecycle to align it with the lifecycles of corresponding Microsoft server platforms. But IT pros are advised to upgrade quickly to avoid extended support costs that could add up to about euro 200,000 ...
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Gmail users can now attach files up to 10GB in size by selecting them from theGoogle Drive cloud storage service. Gmail announced the new capability on its blog today, stating that feature allows for attachments that are 400 times ...
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Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track their usage of AWS public cloud resources. Detailed billing features include ...
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Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com,a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform,because the site's user database was compromised. On Tuesday,a hacker named"ViruS_HimA"claimed that he hacked into"one of ...
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Dozens of US banks face a "credible" threat from hackers based in Eastern Europe who are planning large-scale attacks next year, a security firm said in a report. The report released by McAfee Labs supports the conclusions of ...
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YAHOO! is revamping its email for the Web and mobile devices in a move aimed at streamlining the service and making its look consistent across various platforms. "Since it's such an important part of our daily lives, we're making a few ...
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TWITTER has added smartphone photo sharing features after Instagram blocked internet users from integrating its images into tweets. "Starting today, you'll be able to edit and refine photos, right from Twitter," the globally popular ...
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MICROSOFT has axed its plan to sell its Surface tablet only online, making it available at Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi in Australia. "We're excited to be working with JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman to expand the ways in which Australians ...
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Facebook is to makechanges to its privacy controlsto make it easier to manage settings and enable users to review every publicly available image. The updates include privacy shortcuts, an improved activity log and a new request and ...