An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed. Android is the most susceptible platform, according to the State of Security in the App Economy report by security firm Arxan Technologies. The ...
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The EU is to tell Google to change the way it gathers information on users to reduce the risk of infringing on their privacy. After a nine-month investigation into Google's business model, which depends on advertisements tailored to users ...
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Customers of British internet service provider (ISP) UK2 have been unable to receive emails from any Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for the past week, due to the two firms blocking their IP addresses. Computer Weekly has seen an email from ...
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Government officials are considering the viability of ordering suppliers bidding for Whitehall contracts to disclose the amount of tax they pay in the UK relative to their UK revenue, Computer Weekly has learned. The move follows recent ...
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Privacy advocates and consumer rights groups are keeping a wary eye on a new copyright enforcement mechanism set to be rolled out by major Internet Service Providers. The so-called Copyright Alert System (CAS) aims to warn Internet users ...
Russia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a law to give the government the power to shut down internet sites without trial. If offending websites cannot be shut down, the law allows authorities to force internet service ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle has sued former partner CedarCrestone on grounds it has been providing third-party support for Oracle's software in an illegal fashion, a move that echoes previous actions Oracle took against former SAP subsidiary ...
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A delegation of nine American specialists in the fields of federal law enforcement,justice,and cultural heritage protection visited Baghdad from December 17 to 20,2012,to attend a conference on Countering Antiquities Trafficking. At ...
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IDG News Service - India has asked Internet service providers to block certain websites and restricted users from sending bulk SMSes for two weeks after threatening content caused panic across the country, official sources said. About 156 ...
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Japan, the world’s main importer of rare earths, has requested international assistance for alternatives, conservation, diversification and recycling and to continue dialogue with China to secure stable global supply, reports ...
Tags: Asia, China, ENVIRONMENT, Japan, Mongolia, Rare Earth, Rare earth metals
Tokyo’s new governor, Naoki Inose, announced the city would subsidize companies with a project to mine rare earth elements from the seabed off Minami-Torishima Island, to the southeast of Tokyo. The Asahi Shimbum reports that ...
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China is responsible for more than 90% of the global supply of rare earths and a few years ago embarked on a crackdown on illegal rare earth mines and consolidation of the industry under a few large producers. Controversially the country ...
Tags: China, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
Network World - It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is now offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an ...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, commercial robocalls, mobile phone
Pakistan and Bangladesh have ordered a block on YouTube in their countries, in protest against Google's reluctance to block a controversial movie trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad on the video-sharing site. Pakistani Prime Minister ...
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Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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