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3 Smart Startup Solutions To Automate Your Home
It used to be that home automation was the exclusive domain of the rich – those wealthy enough to splurge $20,000-plus on complex systems that allowed them to control the lights, security, air conditioning, home theater and other odds and ends at the flick of a switch. That’s not no longer the case, with a ...
Adobe Source Code Hack Presents Serious Risk To Enterprise Customers
Last week’s highly publicized theft of source code from a number of Adobe products, including its popular Acrobat and Cold Fusion tools, poses a serious threat to the thousands of enterprises around the world that have the company’s products installed on their computers. Adobe’s Chief Security Officer Brad Arkin wrote a detailed blog post admitting ...
Google Plans To “Mug Off” Mugshot Websites
Few ex-offenders enjoy being reminded of the fact that they were once arrested and charged with a criminal offence, particularly when those people have since moved on to become hard working, honest members of society. The only problem is, even after their case has been resolved, it can be quite difficult to forget that uncomfortable ...
EU Move To Regulate The Cloud Could Threaten US Firms
Whatever your feelings on Ed Snowden and his revelations of the NSA’s massive online spy program, it can’t be denied that the leaks are having some kind of positive effect – at least people are debating what level of privacy people should be allowed to expect online, even if nothing concrete has been done about ...
Bing Challenged Over Bing It On Challenge
Bing might be light years behind Google when it comes to number of people who actually use it as their main search engine, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from trying to convince people how much better it’s own site is. In its latest effort to try and steal a few million searchers from its hated ...
Here’s Two Silk Road Alternatives Where You Can Still Score Drugs
The Deep Web was shook to its core last night when news of the FBI’s operation to shut down the notorious online black marketplace Silk Road hit the headlines. The feds announced that following a months’ long investigation, they’d finally arrested Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht, better known as Dread Pirate Roberts, charging him ...
Microsoft Warns of Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerability
A vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer – knowledge of which was first made public last month – has finally been released into the wild, leading to concerns that attacks based on the exploit may increase substantially. Microsoft says that the vulnerability affects all versions of IE, including the most recent release, IE 11. The company noted ...
Japan’s Gadget Show Offers Glimpse of the Future with Smart Glasses & Driverless Cars
Cars that drive themselves and a pair of smart glasses that can translate a Japanese menu into English as the wearer reads it were some of the futuristic gadgets on display at the Cutting-Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition (CEATEC) in Tokyo earlier today. Thousands of eager visitors poured into the exhibition this morning, eager ...
Google Could Pay Heavy Price For Gmail Wiretapping
Wiretapping has traditionally been the domain of law enforcement agencies and government spies, but now internet giant Google is facing allegations that it too engages in the practice – illegally – by gathering data from Gmail users and using it to show them targeted advertising. The claims against Google date back over several years, stemming ...
Symantec Sinkholes Part Of ZeroAccess, One Of The Largest Known Botnets
The security firm Symantec may have dealt a devastating blow to the cybercrimimal gang behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest known botnets in existence, removing their access to over a quarter of machines within its grasp following a special operation to liberate them, reports the IDG News Service. Symantec says that at its height the ...