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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 ...
Microsoft: Outlook RT, Fingerprint Scanners for Windows 8.1 & Free Office For “Small” Devices
It’s been a busy 24 hours for Microsoft, which has announced a slew of changes regarding its new Windows 8.1 tablets. First up is the news that Microsoft’s popular Outlook email client will now be available on Windows RT, the ‘dumbed-down’ version of Windows that’s run by ARM-based machines only. Previously these devices, which include ...
Salesforce Lands ExactTarget for $2.5B in its Biggest Acquisition Yet
In the second big deal of the day, Salesforce.com has just announced the biggest acquisition in its history, buying up cloud marketing platform ExactTarget for a whopping $2.5 billion. According to the company’s press release, Salesforce is paying $33.75 a share to take over ExactTarget, which is a huge 52% premium on the company’s closing ...
Internet of Things vs. The Industrial Internet: What’s the Difference?
Once a trend, now fast becoming a reality, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the buzzword for a concept that’s rapidly changing the world in which we live. But as with all buzzwords, confusion sometimes creeps in, and the concept of IoT is often used interchangeably with terms like the Industrial Internet or Machine-to-Machine (M2M). ...
IBM Snaps Up SoftLayer, Eyes Public Cloud Domination
IBM has just confirmed its intention to buy up cloud computing infrastructure provider SoftLayer in an acquisition said to be worth around $2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. IBM stated that its motivation is to bolster its own cloud computing efforts. The WSJ reports that ‘Big Blue’ is planning to create a new ...
Gmail Gets an Update on Android
After previewing a redesigned Gmail experience on the desktop last week, Google has quietly gone and made the same features available for its Android app. Those who can download the updated app – Google says its rolling out ‘over the next few weeks’ – will be able to reply, archive and delete messages straight from ...