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Google Aims to Kill Off Illegal Download Sites By Cutting Off Funding
Google doesn’t like piracy websites much. In fact, it’s fair to say that Google positively hates them. If reports from the UK are to be believed, the world’s biggest internet company has apparently decided that enough is enough, and has begun orchestrating a major effort to cut funding to websites that provide illegal downloads, with ...
Five Government Big Data Projects That’ll Change the World
Big Data has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last 12 months, with a new report from Wikibon this morning putting the movement’s total value at a whopping $11.4 billion in 2012. Much of this cash has come from big business that are keen to exploit Big Data for economic reasons, but much ...
Google Claims 99.7% Reduction in Hijacked Gmail Accounts
We’ve seen some pretty clever email scams over the years – such as the ‘travel money scam’ where a friend sends a frantic message saying that they’re stuck overseas and have just lost all of their money, before begging you to send them some funds. Dozens of variations of this exist, along with altogether different ...
Apple Hacked Along With Facebook & Twitter, but Who’s Responsible?
US tech firms have been dropping like flies, with one company after another coming out to report that its fallen victim to cyberattacks in recent weeks. Twitter and Facebook both provided details of security breaches last week, and late yesterday Apple revealed that it too had also fallen victim to the same group of hackers. ...
Big Data Search Tool Elasticsearch Gets $24M in Series B Funding
Amsterdam-based Big Data startup Elasticsearch, which operates the real-time search and data analytics open-source project of the same name, has just secured a handsome $24 million in series B funding, which it says it plans to use to make its platform more user-friendly. The bulk of these funds were provided by Mike Volpi of Index ...
Google Docs Blocked: Oxford Uni Takes Drastic Step To Dodge “Phishing” Attacks
After witnessing a dramatic increase in the number of phishing attacks, Oxford University took the drastic step of temporarily blocking access to Google Docs for a few hours on Monday, blaming Google for failing to act quickly enough to prevent the attacks. The Google Docs ‘outage’ lasted for about two and a half hours, before ...
Microsoft Launches Outlook to Take on Gmail – Look Out!
Time to bid farewell to your old Hotmail account – Microsoft has finally gone and replaced its long-standing email service with the revamped Outlook.com, which the company claims has already accumulated more than 60 million active users since its ‘preview’ launch six months ago. Dozens of Hotmail users have already made the switch, and those ...
China’s Cyberwarfare HQ Exposed
It looks just like any other office building located in suburban Shanghai, but the unassuming 12-storey white building pictured right has been identified as the possible nerve center of a global hacking operation conducted by a secret cyberwarfare unit in China’s military. US security firm Mandiant says that it has collected extensive evidence detailing the ...
Microsoft Accidently “Confirms” Windows Blue Update For PCs and Phones
Not long after it was first released, there were rumors that Microsoft was planning a radical overhaul of the way it updates its operating system, with a new annual release cycle codenamed Windows Blue. The plan, supposedly, is that Windows will become more like Android or Apple’s OS X, and until today we’ve been waiting ...
Google’s Neck On The Line: EU Threatens “Repressive Action”
European privacy watchdogs are squaring up for a titanic clash with Google after the internet giant ignored orders to undo the sweeping changes made to its privacy policy last year which affected services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Search. Google’s defiance of the order means that things are likely to come to a head before ...