Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire webmail sessions. "We're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting ...
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IDG News Service - Recent back-end upgrades by Microsoft to Office 365's SharePoint Online are causing problems for some users and developers whose workflows and applications have been disrupted by a variety of bugs. At SP Marketplace, a ...
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A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT,therefore allowing for desktop-style programmes to be installed on the platform. The hacker,who uses the online moniker"clrokr",documented the ...
IDG News Service - Google has taken steps to close potential security holes created by a fraudulent certificate for its google.com domain, discovered in late December. The certificate was erroneously issued by an intermediate certificate ...
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IDG News Service - Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate ...
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Microsoft’s C# has been crowned the number one programming language of the year by the PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL) index. Although Java is still the most widely used programming language in the world, C#’s ...
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Computerworld - An elite hacker group credited last year with having an inexhaustible supply of zero-day vulnerabilities was responsible for digging up and first using the newest unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE), a Symantec manager ...
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IDG News Service - Google has quietly shut down a search function that helped users in China navigate past the country's censorship systems, after authorities had tried to block the feature. Launched at the end of May, the function worked ...
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Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
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The attackers who recently infected the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) with an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer, also targeted the website of Capstone Turbine Corporation, a U.S.-based ...
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The developers of Ruby on Rails, a popular open source Web application development framework for the Ruby programming language, released versions 3.2.10, 3.1.9, and 3.0.18 of the software on Wednesday in order to patch a serious SQL ...
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The much-anticipated Tesla Model S, which started production last week, uses a lot of aluminum, and that has industry groups pleased as punch. Alcoa and the Aluminum Association released laudatory statements abut the Tesla Model S, a ...
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Smartphone and tablet owners downloaded a record 1.76 billion iOS and Android apps during the week of Dec. 25 to Dec. 31, a mobile analytics company said Wednesday. According to San Francisco-based Flurry, which projected total downloads ...
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Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website. "Reports of an @Netflix outage today are wrong: Streaming is fine. DVD delivery is fine," said ...
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of backdoor-type malware that infects Java-based HTTP servers and allows attackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying systems. The threat, known as ...
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