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Mozilla’s radical plan to save net neutrality
There’s been an interesting twist to the never-ending net neutrality debate. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser and all-round champion of Internet freedom, has proposed a novel way the Federal Communications Commission can legally protect net neutrality, giving activists and the Obama administration what they’ve wanted all along. In a nutshell, what Mozilla’s doing is ...
Symantec: Antivirus is dead – long live security-as-a-service!
Antivirus software maker and web security firm Symantec has hinted at plans to get out of its main line of business. Rather than fixing security problems, Symantec wants to stop them from happening in the first place, adding that the concept of antivirus software was on its last legs. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, ...
Rotten Apple? iPhone maker could fall from grace by 2020
Exactly which three tech companies will be top of the tree come 2020? That’s impossible to say with any certainty, but at least one expert thinks that Apple’s days as one of the tech world’s giants are numbered, while he also had plenty of nice things to say about Bitcoin’s blockchain, and its potential to ...
Windows XP users got lucky this time, but don’t expect it to last
Microsoft caused a few surprise last week with the announcement of one last update for Windows XP, in order to fix a major security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser. This comes after support for XP officially ceased last April. The company explained its decision in a blog post, saying it was providing the update ...
Google’s secret weapon: A ‘Silver’ bullet aimed squarely at Android
Last week it was announced that Google is working on a new brand of smartphones to be branded as “Silver”, in what looks like an initiative to seize back control of its Android OS. Silver looks to be a declaration of war on the likes of Samsung and other device makers. In a similar fashion ...
Social login flaw redirects users to malicious sites
A major new vulnerability affecting websites that allow people to login using their social media accounts has been discovered. The flaw exists in widely-used open-source systems like OpenID and OAuth 2.0, and works by redirecting users to malicious websites that can steal their personal info and data. The “Covert Redirect” vulnerability was discovered by Chinese ...
3 trends set to disrupt the enterprise storage space
The acceleration of business change is putting organizations under pressure to deploy the best-performing and most cost-effective IT services available. After all, information is the most highly-prized asset of any organization, and as they accumulate greater amounts, things become much more difficult to maintain. Employees are accessing more data, and in doing so are using ...
Microsoft updates advice on Internet Explorer’s zero-day flaw
Microsoft has announced an update to its security advisory for the recently disclosed zero-day flaw discovered in its Internet Explorer browser, clarifying the various suggested workarounds. The flaw, identified as CVE-2014-1776, is said to affect all versions of Internet Explorer through 6 to 11, although FireEye Research Labs, which first spotted it, has only observed ...
Insider threats, Big Data & Cloud are biggest security headaches for financial sector
Theft from partners and insider leaks are perceived to be the biggest threats to data security, according to the latest Insider Threat report. The research shows that more than 55 percent of European financial organizations believe the gravest threat comes from third-party contractors, while 52 percent say that insider threats are hardest to detect. The ...
TIBCO boosts Business Intelligence capability with Jaspersoft acquisition
Data-integration provider TIBCO has just acquired Jaspersoft, an open-source Business Intelligence firm, in a deal worth around $185 million. It’s not the most earth-shattering deal by any stretch of the imagination, but it could be an indication of things to come in what’s fast becoming a crowded analytics software space. TIBCO will use Jaspersoft’s business ...