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vBulletin forums hacked: Inj3ct0r Team tries to sell zero-day flaw
It’s come to light that the makers of the popular web forum software vBulletin have admitted a major security breach last Friday, which saw their network successfully hacked and breached, with the hackers gaining access to customers’ IDs and passwords. vBulletin said that it reacted immediately to the breach by resetting its users’ passwords automatically, ...
Death by Bitcoin: Say hello to the anonymous, crowd-funded Assassination Market
Would you be prepared to kill for a small fortune in Bitcoin? Well, that’s the reward on offer over at a new website called the Assassination Market, a sick and twisted take on crowd-funding that lets people donate the cryptocurrency anonymously to bring about an early demise for various political leaders. The existence of Assassination ...
Bitcoin value hits $649, you can blame it on China!
Bitcoin is spiraling out of control – the cryptocurrency soared to a record high of $649, before tailing off slightly to $640 at the time of writing, on the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange. This comes as the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs gets ready for a major hearing this Monday morning ...
Salesforce swoops on the Internet of Things with Salesforce1
On Monday, Salesforce is set to announce its next-generation CRM platform called Salesforce1, which is envisaged as providing a way for software vendors, developers and customers to integrate third-party services like as Dropbox and Evernote with applications and sensors. Salesforce1 is a ‘mobile-first’ environment that underlines Salesforce’s determination to be one of the first platform ...
Google crushes Authors Guild in long-running book scanning dispute
For almost a decade, the Authors Guild has waged a bitter war against Google and its massive book search engine project, accusing it of violating copyrights on an industrial scale by scanning the pages of millions of books and uploading these to the web. Google fought back hard, arguing that it’s Books project is actually ...
AWS unveils new security service + games, apps and desktops streamed from the cloud
Amazon Web Services rolled out a series of important, but admittedly not groundbreaking, services yesterday during day two of its AWS Re:Invent conference. The services were introduced by Andrew Jassy, senior vice president of Web Services at Amazon.com, during his keynote yesterday. AWS’ new products continue a regular trend that has seen the company roll ...
“No Thanks” – Snapchat snubbed Facebook’s $3B buyout offer
Did Facebook really offer $3 billion to buy the popular messaging service Snapchat? The Wall Street Journal says that it did, citing “unnamed people briefed on the matter” in its report. The WSJ says that Facebook’s seemingly ludicrous offer reflects the growing interest around new online messaging services and other social media formats. But more ...
CEOs porn habits are biggest threat to IT security
It’s a dirty little secret but its one that needs to be let out of the bag. IT professionals spend a lot of time worrying about security threats to their organizations from hackers and corrupt employees, but according to a new study from ThreatTrack, the bigger risk lies at the top of the tree. The ...
Microsoft just became a much nicer place to work
Microsoft employees woke up to some good news this morning, when bosses sent out a company-wide email announcing the end of its despised “stack ranking” review system for workers’ performance. The email, which was obtained by the ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, came from Lisa Brummel, executive VP of Redmond’s human resources department, and explained that ...
Hong Kong Bitcoin site GBL goes missing along with $4.1M in investors’ cash
Bitcoin’s popularity in China has exploded in recent months, but its not just investors who’ve been tempted by the profit potential of digital currency trading – now it seems that scammers and fraudsters are every bit as keen to get in on the act, having recently made off with millions of dollars worth of Chinese ...