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The Top 15 Cloned Android Apps and Games Posing as Trojans
Malware authors are cashing in on the Instagram-Facebook craze with their fake Instagram app for the Android platform. The fake Instagram app is actually a Trojan in disguise, dubbed as “Andr/Boxer-F” by Sophos, who discovered the malicious apps. The malware authors made fake websites that advertised the fake Instagram apps. What the evil apps do ...
March Mobile Madness: Infographic
March Madness is the craze that happens from the second week of March until the first week of April every year. This revolves around the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments, which determines the national champions in college basketball. And as we’ve tackled in the past, if there’s a major event ...
7 Tech Firms Face Antitrust Lawsuit For Anti-poaching Agreement
Seven technology companies are facing an antitrust class action lawsuit for allegedly conspiring not to poach each other’s employees. Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc., Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar unit and Lucasfilm Ltd. were ordered by District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California to face the class action lawsuit ...
Day 4 of the Google-Oracle Trial: Courtroom Transformed Into Classroom
Quick recap: The Google-Oracle trial began on Monday. Oracle sued Google for allegedly infringing Java patents for the Android platform. The first day of trial was spent on jury selection and Oracle’s opening statements. The second day, Google gave their opening remarks and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stand, claiming Google knew they were ...
RIM To Open Source BlackBerry OS, Samsung Preps Cloud Service?
Today’s mobile roundup features RIM’s plan to open source BlackBerry OS, Samsung to unveil cloud service, Apple’s 4G issue in Australia and more. BlackBerry OS open source Research in Motion is kind of like Apple in that their operating system only works for their devices. This worked well for Apple and in previous years, for ...
Another Boastful Anonymous Hacker Arrested in Utah
It seems like hackers can’t keep their ego in check. Another hacker got arrested for bragging his feats. John Anthony Borell III of Utah was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as they have evidences that linked him to two hacking incidents last January. The first attack was directed at the Salt Lake City ...
Waking Dead Celebs: Holographs See a New Future in Storage, Ads
Music and art lovers who attended the Coachella Festival last Sunday were given the show of their lives when Tupac Shakur, the rap artist murdered in 1996, performed right in front of their eyes alongside Snoop Dogg. The performance was orchestrated by Dr. Dre and a bunch of holographic technology pundits. Tupac Live The Digital ...
Google Warns 20K Websites of Malware Infestation
Google sent out a warning to 20,000 websites informing them that their website may be hacked and injected with JavaScript redirect malware. “[W]e think that JavaScript has been injected into your site by a third party and may be used to redirect users to malicious sites,” said the Google warning. “You should check your source ...
Facebook IPO Set For May 17
Facebook reportedly has its eyes on May 17 for initial public offering. According to the latest reports, if the Securities and Exchange Commission states that everything is in order, all their paper works had been filed, including the Instagram acquisition, Facebook’s IPO could be set for May 17th. This is in line with earlier reports ...
Splunk’s IPO Price Raised After Stellar Growth Year
Splunk, the company that specializes in big data analysis, announced the pricing of their initial public offering of 13,500,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share. A total of 12,507,278 shares are being offered by Splunk while a total of 992,722 shares are being offered by selling stockholders. ...