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Microsoft has picked up a hefty ally in its battle to oppose a US court order demanding access to emails stored in its Dublin, Ireland data center. The Irish government has sided with Redmond, claiming that if Microsoft gives in to the …
PlayStation Network and Xbox Live hacked on Xmas Day, forcing millions of gamers offline
Thousands of video gamers had their Christmas Day fun ruined yesterday thanks to a bunch of mischievous hackers who contrived to knock out both Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service yesterday. Ho ho ho! Even worse, it seems …
IDC highlights top Big Data trends for 2015
Fewer tech trends are likely to be hotter than Big Data analytics in 2015 as far as the enterprise is concerned. Hot on the heels of Forrester’s forecast that Hadoop will become an “enterprise priority” in the next 12 months, International Data …
North Korea kicked entirely offline in apparent Sony hack retaliation
If you play with fire, expect to get burned. That’s a lesson that North Korea has learned the hard way after suddenly finding itself wiped off the face of the Internet, following an outage that appears to be the result of a …
South Korean nuclear plant breached by unknown hackers
North Korea’s ongoing cyberwar with Sony Pictures and the US might be stealing most of the headlines this Christmas, but that hasn’t spared its near-neighbor South Korea from a hacking scandal of its own. Reports at the weekend suggested one of the …
GitHub urges developers to patch critical Git client bug
GitHub has revealed the existence of a flaw in its client software, and is recommending users upgrade to a new version as soon as possible. The vulnerability first announced at GMANE, and it was later confirmed by GitHub itself, which simultaneously issued …
Microsoft admits “human error” led to last month’s Azure outage
Microsoft has just published a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong during last month’s Azure cloud storage service outage, which caused thousands of websites, including its own Windows Store and MSN.com, to go offline. The Microsoft Azure service interruption on Nov. 18 …
Open Garden nets $10.8M to expand mesh-networking FireChat app
Open Garden, the company behind the offline messaging app FireChat that doesn’t need a mobile network, has just announced a fresh funding round of $10.8 million to boost its growth in emerging markets. The FireChat app was only released this year, but …
Teradata gobbles up Hadoop-happy data cruncher RainStor
Data cruncher Teradata Corp., which has slowly but surely been expanding its Big Data analytics capabilities, has just snapped up RainStor Inc., maker of a data archiving application that sits on top of Hadoop. The deal was completed for an undisclosed sum, …
US-Cuba detente presents opportunity for Internet freedoms
Cuba remains one of the last nations on Earth where Internet access remains, for the majority of its people, a forbidden fruit. According to the watchdog group Freedom House, barely five percent of Cuba’s citizens enjoy unrestricted access to the Web. But …