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Google has just beaten the deadline to submit its proposal on how it plans to conduct its search engine business in future, in the latest round of its ongoing European anti-trust probe. Antoine Colombani, spokesperson for the European Union’s Competition Commissioner Joaquin …
Kim Dotcom Dangles $13,500 Carrot For The First Person Who Can Hack Mega
It’s no secret that Kim Dotcom thinks he’s got this security thing nailed on with his new site Mega, but now the entrepreneur has gone and put his money where his mouth is, offering a €10,000 ($13,500) reward to the first person …
China Hacked The New York Times and Stole All of its Passwords
Hackers backed by China’s military are believed to have carried out repeated attacks on the New York Time’s cyber infrastructure, according to new claims by the newspaper. It believes that the attacks began around four months ago, and are likely to be …
Lenovo’s Protect & Attack Strategy Threatens Global Domination – Apple & Samsung Better Watch Out
We’ve all heard talk of how the post-PC era is supposedly looming on the horizon, but perhaps it would be wiser to ignore the proclamations of those who insist that the roof is about to cave in. Despite Apple’s Tim Cook insisting …
IBM Uses Big Data to Detect Insider Threats
Enterprise can derive useful insights from Big Data but this advantage comes at a cost, with large datasets rapidly becoming tempting targets for hackers and other cybercriminals. To counter this threat, IBM has just unleashed its latest security solution, Security Intelligence with …
Uh Oh, Kim Dotcom Could Be In Hot Water (Again)
Poor old Kim Dotcom has only just kicked open the doors to his new cloud storage service Mega, but less than two weeks in he could well be facing his first legal tangles with the emergence of a new “collaborative” search engine …
Dell Buyout Edges Closer, but Microsoft’s Role Still Uncertain
Dell’s proposed buyout that would see it become a private entity once again remains on track and a deal could be announced in the coming days, although two key issues still need to be resolved according to reports earlier today. The most …
Eric Schmidt’s Vision of the Future: Virtual Kidnappings, Drone Wars, and the End of Repression
Drone strikes targeting cyber-terrorists, hackers holding online identities hostage, and parents emphasizing ‘internet education’ ahead of sex education – this is the future that lies in store for us all, according to Google’s Eric Schmidt. “For citizens, coming online comes to mean …
Smartphone Sensors Could Give Up Your Passwords
Another day, another new security threat, only this time it comes from the unlikeliest of places. You know that accelerometer thingy in your smartphone – the sensor that makes sure the screen is always the right way up? Well, apparently it’s so …
Has Mobile Finally Paid Off for Facebook? Sure Looks That Way
After months of humiliation on Wall Street as its stock price went from bad to worse to embarrassing, Facebook raised quite a few eyebrows with an impressive Q3 performance in the area that matters most – mobile. Now, expectations are high that …