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The NSA’s MYSTIC powers – it can listen to and record every phone call in the world
Remember not so long ago the NSA’s innocent claim that it only collects the metadata of people’s phone calls? Well, apparently that’s not not entirely accurate, for not only does it actually listen into foreigners’ telephone conversations with alarming regularity, it also has the ability to record “every single” call in any given country and ...
Oracle blames US dollar exchange rates yet again as Q3 revenues disappoint
Oracle has declared Q3 revenues of $9.3 billion, a four percent rise year-on-year that still fell somewhat short of Wall Street’s expectations. According to Oracle’s Q3 2014 fiscal report, the company saw its GAAP earnings per share rise to $0.56, an eight percent increase that’s just short of its projected 10 percent rise. In addition, ...
Security threat? 10% of government PCs still running Windows XP
Just like countless businesses and individuals, the US government is finding it hard to let go of Windows XP. Even though its had more than six years to get ready for D-Day, when Microsoft finally ends its technical support for the OS, over ten percent of government PCs are still believed to be running the ...
Dorian Nakamoto: ‘I did not create, invent or otherwise work on Bitcoin’
Did Newsweek make the mother of all cock ups when it fingered Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as the creator of Bitcoin? It certainly looks that way, as the beleaguered 64-year old Californian has once again reached out to the media to vigorously deny any knowledge of the cryptocurrency. In a statement sent to Reuters journalist Felix ...
USA, UK are officially declared ‘enemies of the internet’
The saying goes that any publicity is good publicity, in which case the NSA is absolutely lapping it up right now. So what’s the latest headline grabber courtesy of everybody’s favorite electronic surveillance agency? Oh well, you know, it’s efforts have only just gone and landed the USA, alongside the UK, on Reporters Without Borders ...
Game over for Windows XP – Or is it?
With just over three weeks to go before Microsoft finally ends its technical support for Windows XP, everybody seems to be panicking. But is the situation really that urgent? Perhaps not, for Microsoft has been trying to push people to upgrade to a newer operating system for some years now… The evidence is there for ...
Crowdsourcing the hunt for Malaysian Airlines flight 370
As the hunt goes on for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and its 239 passengers continues, plenty of questions have been asked about how, in this day and age, a plane can simply vanish into thin air. We might not have the answers right now, but it’s not for the lack of trying. Thanks to ...
Russia brings the hammer down on opposition websites
Russia has begun putting its controversial internet blacklist laws into action, blocking the websites of a number of opponents to the government of Vladimir Putin, according to reports. On Thursday, Russian ISPs were told to block access to a number of sites, including the personal website of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and also that of ...
Ubuntu smartphones to arrive this year – but only in Spain & China
This year’s Mobile World Congress saw some positive developments for Android and Fanboi-haters, with the news that Canonical had finally found some hardware manufacturers to beging putting its Ubuntu smartphones together. Even so, little else was revealed at the time, leaving us guessing as to who might be making these devices, what kinds of specs ...
TURBINE: The NSA’s secret automated ‘mass-hacking’ program
It’s no secret that the NSA has both the method and the means to get inside your computer if it has a vested interest in doing so. The existence of its secret specialist hacking team, code-named Tailored Access Operations, was first revealed last year – the unit has all manner of sophisticated ways to hack ...
