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Google Docs Blocked: Oxford Uni Takes Drastic Step To Dodge “Phishing” Attacks
After witnessing a dramatic increase in the number of phishing attacks, Oxford University took the drastic step of temporarily blocking access to Google Docs for a few hours on Monday, blaming Google for failing to act quickly enough to prevent the attacks. The Google Docs ‘outage’ lasted for about two and a half hours, before ...
Microsoft Launches Outlook to Take on Gmail – Look Out!
Time to bid farewell to your old Hotmail account – Microsoft has finally gone and replaced its long-standing email service with the revamped Outlook.com, which the company claims has already accumulated more than 60 million active users since its ‘preview’ launch six months ago. Dozens of Hotmail users have already made the switch, and those ...
China’s Cyberwarfare HQ Exposed
It looks just like any other office building located in suburban Shanghai, but the unassuming 12-storey white building pictured right has been identified as the possible nerve center of a global hacking operation conducted by a secret cyberwarfare unit in China’s military. US security firm Mandiant says that it has collected extensive evidence detailing the ...
Microsoft Accidently “Confirms” Windows Blue Update For PCs and Phones
Not long after it was first released, there were rumors that Microsoft was planning a radical overhaul of the way it updates its operating system, with a new annual release cycle codenamed Windows Blue. The plan, supposedly, is that Windows will become more like Android or Apple’s OS X, and until today we’ve been waiting ...
Google’s Neck On The Line: EU Threatens “Repressive Action”
European privacy watchdogs are squaring up for a titanic clash with Google after the internet giant ignored orders to undo the sweeping changes made to its privacy policy last year which affected services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Search. Google’s defiance of the order means that things are likely to come to a head before ...
Facebook Hacked: Once Again, Java Is The Weakest Link
The reputation of Java was dragged through the mud once again this weekend as hackers exploited yet another zero-day vulnerability in the plugin, this time to infiltrate Facebook in one of the highest profile hacks of the year so far. Facebook reported over the weekend that its database had been targeted in what was, in ...
Mega Embraces Bitcoin as BitTorrent Launches SoShare Rival
The file-sharing wars are heating up, with Kim Dotcom announcing that his new storage service Mega has become the latest website to start accepting payment via the virtual currency Bitcoin (BTC). The news comes just days after the launch of a new rival service from BitTorrent which blows Mega out the water with a whopping ...
Microsoft’s Stance On Office For iPad Costing It $2.5 Billion A Year
Microsoft’s reluctance to develop an iPad variant of its industry-standard Office suite is both well-known and well understood, given that it has its sights set on gatecrashing the new computing environment with its own Surface Pro tablet, but its hardline stance could be costing it as much as $2.5 billion a year in lost revenues. ...
Kiosked Wants To Make Every Site An E-Commerce Store
Anyone who happened to be paying attention when it was announced that Angry Birds backer Kaj Hed and his investor friends had ploughed $5.75 million into Kiosked might have guessed that we could expect something big from the Helsinki startup. The software calls itself a ‘content activation platform’, but that fails to do it justice, ...
Iceland Gets Cold Feet On Internet Porn
We all know that the internet is for looking at porn, but (sadly for some) that may no longer be the case in Iceland if the country’s Interior Minister gets enough support for a proposal to use internet filters to prevent viewing or downloading ‘naughty’ content. Iceland’s government is mulling over a controversial new law ...