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The Cyber Attack Adobe Recently Suffered Impacted 38 Million Users

Oct 31, 2013

Adobe, known for its Reader and Acrobat software, has confirmed that the cyber attack it recently suffered impacted 38 million users - more than 10 times the 2.9 million customers it had said were affected initially. The attack, which the ...

Tags: Adobe, software, Computer Products

Accelrys Has Completed The Roll-out of Its Next-generation Cheminformatics Suite

Sep 25, 2013

Accelrys, a US-based provider of lifecycle management solutions, has completed the roll-out of its next-generation cheminformatics suite, with the launch of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. Both the solutions will help in ...

Tags: lifecycle management, Medicine

The NFC Ring to Control Your Devices and Information

Aug 15, 2013

Source: Kickstarter Out of science fiction, or epic medieval legend, what if you could have the power to control your devices and information with a single, small object? Look no further, for now you can can possess your own digital ...

Tags: Lights, Lighting

Social Media Network Facebook Acquired Speech Recognition

Aug 15, 2013

Social media network Facebook has announced that it has acquired speech recognition and machine translation technologies start-up Mobile Technologies. The start-up developed the Jibbigo app, which allows users to select from more than 25 ...

Tags: Mobile, Facebook, Computer Products, Social media

Two Encrypted Email Services Have Shut Down

Aug 13, 2013

Two encrypted email services have shut down because they feel threatened about having to turn over customer information to the government. Lavabit and Silent Circle both offered encrypted email services, but both have decided to ...

Tags: Email Vendor, Physical Ties

Facebook's "Bug Bounty" Programme Has Paid out $1m in Total

Aug 6, 2013

Facebook's "Bug Bounty" programme has paid out $1m in total to users-turned-security-bug-hunters in the past two years, with the youngest recipient being a 13-year-old boy. The largest single "bounty" has been $20,000, and two recipients ...

Tags: Facebook, Amateur Security Testing

Facebook Exposed Six Million Users' Private Phone Numbers

Jun 24, 2013

Facebook has admitted that it exposed six million users' private phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorised viewers over the last year. The social media network blamed a technical bug for the data breach, which has resulted in ...

Tags: Facebook, Private Data, Social Media Network

French Has Given Google 3 Months to Change The Way It Handles Users' Private Data

Jun 20, 2013

France's data protection authority has given Google three months to change the way it handles users' private data, or face legal sanctions. The order, made on June 10 and published Thursday, is the result of a formal investigation begun ...

Tags: Google, French Privacy Authority, Private Data

EPA's Pinocchio Nose Continues to Grow Longer Along with Farmer Privacy Scandal

Jun 18, 2013

EPA’s Pinocchio nose continues to grow longer. Despite a barrage of criticism following the admitted release of private farmer data to three environmental groups after a Freedom of Information Act request, EPA has clammed up and ...

Tags: EPA, Farmer Privacy

Informatica Recently Ported VDM to The Hadoop Framework for Large-Scale Data Processing

Jun 4, 2013

Informatica has given its virtual data machine technology a proper name and is planning to create versions of it that can run on anything from high-end servers in private data centers to small devices and sensors. Dubbed Vibe, the "VDM ...

Tags: Vibe, Informatica, JVM

Yahoo Japan Said It Discovered Illicit Access to Its ID Servers on Thursday Evening

May 22, 2013

Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. The company emphasized that the IDs are already public information, and no passwords or other ...

Tags: Yahoo Japan, User ID, Computer Products

Google's Android Operating System Have Filed an Amended Version of an Earlier Lawsuit

May 20, 2013

Several users of devices running Google's Android operating system have filed an amended version of an earlier lawsuit accusing the company of illegally collecting, and allowing others to collect, extensive amounts of mobile user data ...

Tags: Google, Computer Products

EE Has Hit Back at Claims by The Sunday Times

May 16, 2013

EE has hit back at claims by the Sunday Times that it and market research firm Ipsos MORI have been working on a deal that would feed data on EE's 27 million customers to the research firm, and even, allegedly, to the police. An EE ...

Tags: Customer Info, Computer Products, EE

Keeper Uses Online Consumer Data Security Software to Protect Consumers' Critical Data

May 16, 2013

Add-ons, Keeper Sharing and Keeper Extensions, develop a robust functionality Online consumer data security software, Keeper, has been bolstered with two major features to help better protect consumers' critical data, with Keeper Sharing ...

Tags: Keeper, Security Experience, Computer Products

EU Rejected Proposals to Store and Share Information on Airline Passengers

Apr 27, 2013

European Union politicians are at loggerheads following a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday that rejected proposals to store and share information on airline passengers. The Parliament's civil liberties committee voted against ...

Tags: EU, Air Passenger Data

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