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Trust In Twitter: They Won’t Grass You Up To The NSA… Yet
Looking at the list of nine US tech firms that are alleged to be participating in the NSA’s vast surveillance gathering program PRISM, there’s one notable omission – Twitter is not on the list. Actually, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that Twitter isn’t bending over backwards to feed your personal data to the feds – ...
Lenovo Chief Targets Push in Servers, Storage and Smartphones
The world’s second biggest PC maker Lenovo is setting its sights on the server, storage and smartphone business as it looks to expand its horizons in the post-PC era. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing revealed that storage and server were a critical area of expansion for ...
NSA Secretly Mining Data From Google, Apple, Facebook & Others
It’s worse than we thought. Just 24 hours after it first exposed how the NSA was secretly tapping phone call metadata from Verizon, The Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post have revealed the existence of a massive, warrantless government surveillance program known as PRISM. The program is reportedly capable of collecting data “directly from the ...
Smart TVs: Not So Clever When It Comes To Security
Smart TVs have earned their name due to the superb functionality they offer, being able to browse the web, stream video content, sync with other devices, play games, and even hang out and chat on social media sites. But when it comes to security, the “smart’ description is probably stretching things a little. “Stupid” might ...
Yahoo To Acquire Foursquare? Here’s a Few Reasons Why It Might Happen
Could Foursquare be the next acquisition on Yahoo’s shopping list? Maybe, maybe not, but All Things D’s Kara Swisher has just made an extremely convincing case that CEO Marissa Mayer is at least thinking about buying up the location-based social network. Now Swisher gives a number of compelling reasons as to why Yahoo might be ...
NSA’s Secret Verizon Data-Mining Operation Exposed
Under highly classified orders from a secret court, Verizon has been passing on the phone call records of every single one of its customers to the US National Security Agency (NSA), UK newspaper The Guardian reported on Wednesday. Several weeks ago the court order, which was issued by an unknown federal court, granted the NSA ...
Microsoft Shuts Down World’s “Most Aggressive Botnet”
Working alongside the FBI, Microsoft has taken aim at one of the cyberworld’s most notorious botnets, which is said to have made its hacker controllers as much as half a billion dollars in the last 18 months. Microsoft’s operation focused on a botnet known as Citadel, which it terms the “most aggressive botnet operation to ...
FreedomPop’s “Free” Mobile Service: It Probably Isn’t That Good…
Phone bills – Arrgh! Aren’t you just sick of them? If, like me, you are, then you might just be interested to hear about the new offer from FreedomPop, which offers “free” mobile broadband services in certain areas. Now, the little upstart carrier wannabe has done something totally ambitious – its just gone and launched ...
A New Chinese Threat: NetTraveller Malware Found in 40 Countries, Targets Oil, Weapons, Nukes & More
Security researchers have discovered a new strain of government-bothering malware doing the rounds. In this case, the so-called NetTraveller malware has managed to infiltrate at least 350 high-profile victims in forty different countries. It’s victims include private organizations and government agencies involved in industries ranging from nuclear power and communications, to space exploration and nanotechnology. ...
Twitter Is Not A Menace To Society
“There is now a menace which is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.” And that, dear readers, is how Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan feels about the recent, social media-fuelled protests that erupted in Istanbul last weekend. In an interview ...