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Lenovo’s bold gambit should be a wake up call for US firms
Flush with cash from selling PCs by the bucket-load, China’s Lenovo has gorged itself on two massive acquisitions, splashing out $2.3 billion on IBM’s x86 server business, before following it up with a $2.9 billion grab for Motorola. That’s a tasty $5.2 billion worth of acquisitions in the space of about a week, and illustrates ...
British spooks launched DDoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivists
It’s not only the bad guys who carry out distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on their targets. Oh no, sometimes the ‘good guys’ will get up to the same old tricks. According to new documents released from former NSA contractor Ed Snowden and obtained by NBC News, British spy agency GCHQ launched a secret war against the ...
Bill Gates is back, but what impact will he have?
Microsoft’s choice of Satya Nadella as its new CEO has been widely applauded as a brilliant move, but less uncertain is the wisdom of the new leader’s decision to bring back Bill Gates into the fold. Having stated time and again that he intended to spend the rest of his days heading up the Bill ...
Google’s transparency report still pretty opaque
When Ed Snowden lifted the lid on the NSA’s PRISM program last summer, major tech firms including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo asked the US government if they could provide more information about what sort of data they handed over in response to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court orders. Under the old rules, Google and ...
Driverless cars? How about a self-driving convoy of military trucks
Google might be the most famous innovator of automated cars, but it’s not the only one ‘driving’ the concept forward. With unmanned aerial vehicles already a highly formidable and controversial part of its repertoire, the US military is now turning its attention to more ‘peaceful’ applications of drone technology, in the form of driverless trucks. ...
‘ChewBacca’ point-of-sale malware caught stealing credit card data
Hans Solo’s best buddy looks like he’s gone over to the Dark Side, with malware bearing the name “ChewBacca” having stolen data from more than 49,000 credit cards from 45 retailers in 11 different countries over the last two months. ChewBacca is said to be a ‘point-of-sale’ malware that infects credit card terminals, stealing data ...
IoT security is your responsibility because no one else cares
The internet has long since evolved past being something only accessed via PCs. These days, the web can be accessed everywhere, via a multitude of different devices in different form factors. It’s not only computers, it’s not just smartphones and tablets, but a whole range of devices and wearable gadgets that are now online, including ...
BTC China back in business, now accepting cash deposits again
Just when we thought China’s Bitcoin bubble had bitten the dust following a government clampdown on banks and third-party payment processors, it could be on the verge of a comeback with a bang. The big news is that BTC China, which once briefly had the honor of being the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange by transaction ...
Google dumps Motorola on Lenovo in $2.91 billion deal
The tech world was taken by surprise last night when Google announced the sale of Motorola, the smartphone maker it acquired just two years ago for $12.5 billion, to China’s Lenovo in a cut-price $2.91 billion deal. The sale was first reported by the New York Times before being confirmed by Google’s Larry Page in ...
New Java-based malware can infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems
Botnets have been all over the news in recent weeks, as have Java-related security issues. So it’s not surprising really that someone’s been busy building a botnet by exploiting one of the numerous vulnerabilities that keep cropping up in Java. In case you’re wondering, a botnet is a network of compromised computers that have been ...