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Bitcoin begins new year with a bang, value soars close to $1,000
Bitcoin has staged a dramatic comeback over the last 24 hours, with its price edging towards the $1,000 mark for the first time since mid-December, propelled by the news that several major businesses have begun accepting the cryptocurrency as a means of payment. The most important of these was online games company Zynga, which said ...
Yahoo ads dumped malware on visitor’s PCs
Following all the bad publicity over its Yahoo Mail service last year, with user’s accounts being constantly hijacked and a disastrous, weeks-long outage in December, Yahoo was probably hoping for some better press going into 2014. Sadly though, the opposite has happened, with reports over the weekend warning that the company’s home page has been ...
3 Big Data problems facing businesses in 2014
Few trends in technology were hotter than Big Data over the last 12 months. In fact, so much has been said about it during 2013 that it’s hard to see what else we can say in 2014. But of course, there’s sure to be plenty of developments we don’t know about yet, as trends like ...
Cybercriminals set sights on Internet of Things in 2014
Connected devices are becoming increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals, and while we saw few such attacks in 2013, the number is likely to surge in the year ahead. That’s the opinion of a number of security experts, who say that the rapid adoption of networked devices and wearable tech will leave the Internet of Things ...
Facebook accused of ‘reading’ your private messages
Facebook has found itself in hot water for the umpteenth time, and once again it’s due to alleged privacy violations. So what has the social media giant done this time around, you ask? Well, all of the ‘private’ messages sent to your friends aren’t nearly as private as you might have hoped, for Facebook apparently ...
Windows crash reports give the NSA ‘passive access’ to your PC
If you’re a Windows user – as the vast majority of desktop owners are – you’ll be entirely familiar with that irritating message that follows a system crash: “The system has recovered from a serious error. A log of this error has been created. Please tell Microsoft about this problem,” followed by the option to ...
Windows 8 isn’t doing too bad at all, now running on 10% of all desktops
Microsoft has every reason to think this year’s set to be a good one, following the news that its divisive Windows 8 and 8.1 operating systems have finally landed on 10 percent of all desktops running to date. The stats come from Net Applications, which is one of the leading monitors of such things, and ...
Snapchat API exploit results in 4.6M usernames and phone numbers exposed
Snapchat users are mistaken if they think that the messaging platform is inherently more secure than others. While it’s gained millions of users over the last year due to the way it permanently deletes messages and photos after a period of ten seconds or less, that doesn’t mean its servers can’t give up confidential details ...
BlackBerry outlines its New Year resolution: Saving its ass with enterprise, BBM focus
Everyone hopes for the new year to be more successful than the previous one, but few will have a more daunting task to achieve that than BlackBerry’s new CEO John Chen. Which is precisely why Chen has decided to get the ball rolling early, whilst most people in the tech world are still kicking it ...
The NSA has totally compromised Apple’s iPhone, leaked documents show
It’s very likely that all what we’ve learned about the NSA’s spy program is but the tip of the iceberg of the agency’s true capabilities, following yet more revelations published yesterday. Just days after leaked documents from the Ed Snowden treasure trove revealed that the NSA was intercepting laptops ordered online to install spyware and ...
