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Twitter notes sharp rise in government requests for user data
Twitter has just released its latest transparency report, revealing a 50 percent rise in the number of user data requests over the last six months. A total of 54 governments made requests for data tied to specific user accounts, with eight of those nations doing so for the first time. In total, Twitter received 2,058 ...
Microsoft ordered to let Feds snoop inside its overseas servers
Microsoft has just lost a key court case that could result in it being forced to give U.S. authorities access to its overseas data centers. On Thursday, District Judge Loretta Preska of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, said that a warrant issued by US authorities that seeks access to ...
BadUSB exploit can hack any device, and there’s no cure in sight
Ready for another security scare? Good, because every single USB device that you plug into your computer could pose a threat that’s worse than any malware. It really is as bad as it sounds. Security researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell of SR Labs have stumbled upon a flaw in every single USB device ever ...
Zillow-Trulia merger will create boundless new Big Data opportunities
The two titans of online real estate plan to join forces, meaning that overnight they’ll literally own the world of real estate data. Zillow, Inc.’s planned acquisition of Trulia, Inc., which was announced earlier this week as a $3.5 billion stock deal, means that for the first time the online real estate world will be ...
Red Hat teams up with 64-bit ARM server vendors
Red Hat has moved a little closer to being able to support ARM-based servers by kicking off a new partner program for 64-bit ARM data center vendors. Called the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program, it’s open to both server builders and chip makers. So far, early members include AMD, AppliedMicro, American Megatrends, Broadcom, ...
China probes Microsoft: More Middle Kingdom misery for Redmond
Microsoft has been placed under investigation in China for possible breaches of anti-monopoly laws, according to various media reports. China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) posted a statement to its website on Tuesday (forgive the machine translation here) which said it had raided several Microsoft offices in the country as part of an ...
Israel defence firm denies being hacked by China’s Comment Crew
A defence contractor that works on Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield system has come out to deny it was a victim of Chinese hack attack two years ago that allegedly stole classified information about the technology. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) issued a statement to a number of media outlets, saying that the reports were incorrect. ...
Cisco warns that network virtualization does have its downsides
Cisco has just posted a new whitepaper online, in which it suggests that virtualization of networks can be somewhat counterproductive, resulting in reduced productivity. The paper notes that while virtualization is hardly a new concept, people have recently started applying it to network functions like routers, switches and other appliances. But while the “early days ...
The Internet of deadly things: IoT security almost non-existent
The Internet of Things has the potential to transform our lives, but the security vulnerabilities it introduces have the potential to derail our lives, too. According to a freshly baked Hewlett-Packard Co. study, a worryingly high 70 percent of Internet of Things devices, including sensors and connected infrastructure, possess vulnerabilities that hackers could easily exploit. HP’s ...
Lightweight Linux distro CoreOS gets production-ready
Developers of the stripped-down CoreOS Linux distro have delivered its first ever production-ready release with version 367.1.0 of the platform. CoreOS is a radical departure from other popular Linux distributions. Designed to be extremely lightweight, each version ships as a single unit, rather than as a collection of add-on packages. As a result, CoreOS takes ...