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Music Industry Shoots Itself In Foot Over Illegal Downloads
So, perhaps the music industry should take a long hard look at itself. Always moaning about the widespread availability of illegal downloads online, and wondering why piracy continues to persist, well here’s one possible reason why that’s the case – apparently, most people don’t have the option of downloading content legally online anyway. At least, ...
How To Break Free From Google’s Latest Privacy Intrusion: “Shared Endorsements”
If you missed Google’s quiet announcement last Friday, when it posted an update to its Terms of Service related to its online ad campaigns, well, you’ll probably be in for a bit of a shock when your photo and name starts showing up in adverts scattered across the web. Under the new ToS, the search ...
Tighter BYOD Policies Needed To Fend Off Rising Mobile Malware Risk
Juniper Research published a report today that claims up to 80% of all smartphones are running without having any kind of protection against malware installed, even in spite of the growing awareness of security threats and the wide availability of mobile security software. According to Juniper’s researchers, of the 1.4 billion smarphones in the world, ...
Yahoo Mail Finally Gets Serious About Security, Adds Default SSL Encryption
Yahoo has finally, and somewhat belatedly, decided to follow in the footsteps of Google, Microsoft and Facebook, announcing that it’ll make SSL encryption the default setting for all Yahoo Mail users as of next January. The company confirmed the plan in a statement given to the Washington Post yesterday. This follows the introduction of SSL ...
US Army Building TALOS: Real-Life Ironman Armor To Give Troops “Superhuman Strength”
Wouldn’t you just love to get your hands on a high-tech armored suit that makes you nearly invincible, à la Tony Stark in the “Ironman” movie? Well, that kind of super-power might still be some way off, but the dream has gotten one step closer, so long as you happen to be in the US ...
Google Chrome Flaw Leaves Passwords, Credit Cards & Bank Details Exposed
With its minimalistic design and its lightening-fast loading times, its little wonder that Google Chrome is the web browser of choice for 40.8% of internet users, according to the latest data from StatCounter. But while people love the fact that Chrome usually works without a hitch, could it be that the world’s favorite web browser ...
BlackBerry Co-Founder Lazaridis Makes Last-Ditch Bid To Save The Day
There’s been new developments over at beleaguered BlackBerry this morning, with a possible takeover bid in the offing, coming hot on the heels of news that seven of its key designers dumped the company earlier this year. First up is the news that BlackBerry’s former CEO and co-founder Mike Lazaridis is weighing up a last ...
“Patriot Act” Creator Aims To Curb NSA Spying With New “Freedom Act”
In almost 12 years since then President George W. Bush signed the controversial Patriot Act into law, it’s fair to say that the US government has gotten a little carried away with its mission to sniff out terrorists through digital surveillance. What with the extent of the NSA’s dragnet fully illustrated by a certain Mr. ...
ScareMail: The Ultimate Plan To Overwhlem The NSA
More than a few people were unhappy to learn about the NSA’s massive surveillance infrastructure, and within days of Ed Snowden’s first leaks we learned all kinds of hints and tricks to avoid its digital dragnet. But even with software like the Tor web browser and search engines like DuckDuckGo that claims not to track ...
Blackhole Malware Creator “Paunch” Arrested in Russia
It’s been reported that Russian authorities have arrested the individual believed to be responsible for the notorious “Blackhole” malware that’s widely used by cybercriminals around the world to infect PCs. The arrest of a “high-level suspected cyber criminal,” was later confirmed by Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, though it did not provide further ...