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George Gets Bush-Hacked: Nude Self-Portraits + Family Secrets Exposed
A number of email accounts belonging to former US President George W. Bush and several of his family members and close friends have been hacked, with a huge amount of sensitive information and private photos published online. Without doubt, some of the most embarrassing items exposed include two images of naked self-portraits of the former ...
Facebook Redirect Error Takes Out Half Of The Internet
You probably didn’t notice it, but for a short period yesterday afternoon Facebook took out the entire internet. A temporary glitch caused anyone who tried to visit a third party website integrated with the social media site to be redirected back to Facebook.com, where a message popped up saying “An error occurred. Please try again ...
Apple Shareholders Demand More Money As Stock Woes Pile Up
Apple came under attack yesterday from one of its biggest shareholders over the $137 billion cash pile it’s accumulated over the last few years, in yet another sign of growing investor unrest over the company’s poor performance in recent months, reports the Wall Street Journal. David Einhorn, the billionaire hedge fund manager of Greenlight Capital, ...
Intel Gets Inside SDN With Big Switch Networks
Big Switch Networks, an early player in software-defined networking (SDN) that came out of stealth last year, has just received a $20 million cash infusion from Intel Capital in its latest venture capital funding round. This means that the world’s biggest chip maker joins the likes of Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Index ...
DARPA Backs Python Big Data Projects With $3M Cash
Texas-based startup Continuum Analytics has just received a $3 million cash injection courtesy of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to help it further its progress with using the Python programming language as a means of crunching Big Data. The cash will be used to develop two specific open source tools – Blaze, which ...
Death Star Strikes Back! Project Revived on Kickstarter
Remember how disappointed we all were to learn that the proposed Death Star project had been denied funding by the White House? Well, the idea has just been given a new breath of life, as someone has just launched a Kickstarter aimed at securing funding to build the deadliest weapon ever conceived… “We need to ...
Microsoft Slates Google Over Gmail Privacy
Microsoft has just launched a new salvo in its eternal struggle with Google, this time singling out its Gmail service for attack in a stinging new video commercial. We’ve seen these kinds of attacks before with Microsoft’s “Scroogled” advertising campaign, and once again it’s taking potshots at Google’s perceived lack of privacy, slating the way ...
EU Plans To “Force” Companies To Report Cyberattacks
Banks, hospitals, energy providers, cloud computing firms and others will all be forced to report any instance of a cyberattack, if a proposed new European law comes into play. According to an article in Techcrunch, the move would require all companies involved in what the EU deems to be ‘critical infrastructure’ to report security breaches ...
Kaspersky’s Antivirus Update Gone Wrong
Kaspersky Labs has hit upon a novel way of keeping its users’ computers free of viruses and malware, simply by preventing them from being able to connect to the web at all. Millions of Kaspersky antivirus users were left bemused at being unable to get online following a buggy update issued by the security firm ...
Big Data Black Hole Looms As Consumers Say “No” To Tracking
Given the chance to select a “do not track” feature on your computer or mobile device, would you willingly allow companies to gather data about you? Most likely, if the option to turn off data tracking was right there in front of you, you’d want to make use of it. But it’s not just you ...