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“Hand of Thief” Malware Makes A Grab For Linux
So you thought you were safe from all the internet nasties – worms, Trojans, spyware and so on whilst tapping away on your Linux flavoured computer? Well, you might want to think again. Reports today have surfaced of a new kind of malware that’s specifically targeted at Linux users, which is being hawked on underground ...
iOS 7 Update Will Track & Display Your Every Move
Will Apple face a new privacy storm when it launches iOS 7? It feels like the dark clouds are looming above, for it’s been revealed that when it’s rolled out, iOS 7 will keep track of and display all of the locations that iPhone users have visited in the past. The new feature hasn’t been ...
China’s Leaders Warm Up to Big Data for Better Governance
China’s repressive internet regime is famous the world over, what with its “Great Firewall of China” put in place to block any sites that censors deem critical of the regime, not to mention the increasingly sophisticated systems it employs to suppress discussion of controversial subjects. China has long seen the internet as something dangerous, something ...
Google Chrome ‘Hacked’: How Your Passwords Can Be Exposed
If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Chrome as your preferred browser, and if you happen to have any important passwords saved within the browser itself, you might just want to reconsider how wise that is. Your data is, of course, at risk any time your computer is stolen, lost or borrowed ...
Crossbar’s Resistive RAM Chips: The Successor to Flash?
Santa Clara-based startup Crossbar has just announced a potentially game-changing new memory chip that it claims has the potential to replace standard flash memory in a number of applications. Crossbar calls its new technology Resistive RAM, and says that it has the ability to store up to a terabyte of data onto a single chip ...
Microsoft Slashes Cost of Surface Pro: A Sign of Failure?
Just a week after it slashed the price of its failed Surface RT tablets by $150, Microsoft has taken a similar drastic measure with the price of its premium Surface Pro, cutting the cost of the device by $100. As of today, the 64GB and 128GB versions of the Pro will be priced at $799 ...
Facebook Targets Twitter Success with Embedded Posts
You don’t have to be on Twitter to read what somebody tweets, and you don’t have to go to YouTube to view a YouTube video, thanks to the way this content can easily be embedded on other website. And now, you won’t need to go to Facebook to comment, click like, or otherwise interact with ...
F#@* It! Russia Wants to Ban Swearing on the Web
“Mother Russia” is certainly living up to its nickname of late. About a nine months ago Russian lawmakers first introduced their controversial “blacklist law,” which gives authorities the power to block access to websites that are deemed to promote drug use, suicide and porn (for the kids, of course). Oddly enough, that same law was ...
Death By Internet of Things: How Smart Gadgets Kill
Amidst all the excitement over the Internet of Things and how our cars and homes and factories are going to vastly improve our lives by talking to each other, you might want to take a step back to consider the kinds of security risks that this new level of connectedness will pose. Very few of ...
Video Ads In Your News Feed – Facebook’s Latest “Great” Idea
So some bright spark at Facebook has come up with yet another inventive way to bombard its users with advertising. According to “sources familiar with the matter” who spoke to Bloomberg, the social media giant is about to unleash TV style video commercials onto everyone’s news feed by the end of the year. The idea ...