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Double Trouble: Malware ‘Tag Team’ Creates Unending Malicious Infection Loop
Security experts from Microsoft have stumbled across an interesting phenomenon – two unique malware programs that ‘collaborate’ with each other in an effort to outfox antivirus software by automatically downloading the other virus should it be removed from the host computer. The existence of the deadly duo was revealed by Microsoft’s Hyun Choi in a ...
The Chinese Just Found Out About Bitcoin
A couple of months ago the Bitcoin community went silly with excitement as its value rose spectacularly against the US dollar, reaching the heady heights of around $250 for one Bitcoin, only to crash back down to around $80 within a couple of weeks. Such was the excitement during that roller-coaster that more than a ...
Skype for Android Goes ‘Metro’ With New Update
Skype has just updated its Android app, and the new software feels an awful lot like Windows Phone. We’ve seen Microsoft attempt to take advantage of its Skype ownership before, most obviously when it merged Skype accounts with its own, and today’s redesign of its popular VoIP app is nothing if not a subtle attempt ...
Big Data’s Getting Bigger in Asia
What with many of Asia’s countries still not quite having reached first-world status yet, many companies in the region can be a bit slow to adopt new technologies. Yet there’s one innovation that Asian firms can’t seem to jump on fast enough – Big Data. The majority of Asian businesses have so far scoffed at ...
ICANN To Require Verification to Register New Web Domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, has announced plans to make domain registrars more accountable for those who sign up and register internet domains. WHOIS, the public domain name database of all registrants, will soon require that all new domain owners verify their identities with ...
The First Firefox OS Phone Has Just Arrived, Look Out Android!
Last February at the Mobile World Congress we saw a clutch of mobile phone carriers pledge support for Mozilla’s Firefox OS, its new HTML-5- based open web mobile platform that it hopes will have an impact in the low-end smartphone market. Now, just four months later, Mozilla is announcing the launch of the first commercial ...
Snowden’s Latest PRISM Leak No Big Surprise
Ed Snowden was up to his old tricks last weekend with yet another bunch of documents being leaked to The Guardian and the Washington Post. There were two themes to this weekend’s leaks, centering on how the US intelligence community is actively spying on some of its closest European “allies”, bugging various embassies in the ...
How People Will Drive the Industrial Internet Revolution
Computers are regarded as ‘intelligent’ machines, but this intelligence only comes from human operators telling them what to do. Now, we’re seeing a new wave of innovation that’s transforming all kinds of machines – not just computers – into ‘intelligent’ devices that will revolutionize our biggest industries. The Industrial Internet will be the most important ...
EFF & FBI Face-Off Over NGI Facial Recognition Database
Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice, accusing them of ignoring its repeated requests for more information pertaining to their upcoming Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database. The foundation says that its requests were filed under the Freedom of Information Act, ...
Adobe Snaps Up Neolane As Marketing Tech Battle Lines Are Drawn
Adobe has just splashed out $600 million in cash to acquire the French marketing automation firm Neolane, best known for its “conversational marketing” technology. It’s products are pretty nifty, allowing marketers to integrate data from multiple online and offline channels, so they can send out customized, targeted messages, carrying out what it calls “lifetime dialogues” ...