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Facebook Hacked: Once Again, Java Is The Weakest Link
The reputation of Java was dragged through the mud once again this weekend as hackers exploited yet another zero-day vulnerability in the plugin, this time to infiltrate Facebook in one of the highest profile hacks of the year so far. Facebook reported over the weekend that its database had been targeted in what was, in ...
Mega Embraces Bitcoin as BitTorrent Launches SoShare Rival
The file-sharing wars are heating up, with Kim Dotcom announcing that his new storage service Mega has become the latest website to start accepting payment via the virtual currency Bitcoin (BTC). The news comes just days after the launch of a new rival service from BitTorrent which blows Mega out the water with a whopping ...
Microsoft’s Stance On Office For iPad Costing It $2.5 Billion A Year
Microsoft’s reluctance to develop an iPad variant of its industry-standard Office suite is both well-known and well understood, given that it has its sights set on gatecrashing the new computing environment with its own Surface Pro tablet, but its hardline stance could be costing it as much as $2.5 billion a year in lost revenues. ...
Kiosked Wants To Make Every Site An E-Commerce Store
Anyone who happened to be paying attention when it was announced that Angry Birds backer Kaj Hed and his investor friends had ploughed $5.75 million into Kiosked might have guessed that we could expect something big from the Helsinki startup. The software calls itself a ‘content activation platform’, but that fails to do it justice, ...
Iceland Gets Cold Feet On Internet Porn
We all know that the internet is for looking at porn, but (sadly for some) that may no longer be the case in Iceland if the country’s Interior Minister gets enough support for a proposal to use internet filters to prevent viewing or downloading ‘naughty’ content. Iceland’s government is mulling over a controversial new law ...
ComScore US Digital Report: One Third of Display Ads Never Seen
ComScore has just released its Digital Future in Focus Report for 2013, offering reams of data on areas such as display advertising, social networking, search and mobile, as well as dozens of insights on what we can expect for the rest of the year. As always, ComScore’s report is bursting with information that’ll appeal to ...
Big Data for Small Enterprise: Painful, But Worth It
It’s not just big business that can get something from Big Data. While they might only be talking terabytes instead of petabytes, small to mid-sized businesses have to just as much to gain – or lose – depending on how they act upon their customer’s data. Not surprisingly though, small to medium-sized enterprises are finding ...
Google Files Lawsuit Against “Russian SOPA” Law
Google is launching an appeal with a Russian court in what it describes as a test case against a new law that some critics say could lead to censorship of the internet. The internet giant announced today that it’s filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court against Russia’s consumer protection and public health and safety ...
Cisco Shrugs Off Challenges With Record Q2 Earnings
These might be uncertain times for the computer networking industry, but you wouldn’t know it going by the recent performance of pack leader Cisco, which has just recorded a 44% jump in quarterly profits on top of a 5% increase in its total revenue. Cisco’s performance came as a surprise to Wall Street analysts, given ...
Spanish Cops Smash “Ransomware” Cybercrime Ring
Police in Spain say that they’ve smashed a cybercrime ring that infected millions of computers with ransomware, using the virus to extort potentially millions of dollars from their unsuspecting victims, it was reported today. According to European Cybercrime Centre, which led the investigation, the suspected hackers would install ransomware onto their victim’s computers, using it ...