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Shutdown July 9th, DNSChanger Still an Issue for Fortune 500
DNSChanger, which has been a headache for users along with Fortune 500 companies, continues to be an issue–at least for 60 of them. With respect to the scheduled shut down of the Trojan’s command-and-control servers on 9 July, the FBI’s action will have Internet darkening results for 12% of Fortune 500 companies and 4% of ...
Spammers Target London Olympics 2012, Become Opportunists Again
Spammers and cybercriminals are rightly called opportunists, as they never miss an opportunity to attack their prospects or dupe people. Be it some event or anything noteworthy, they always try to take advantage of it. And their new target is the London Olympics 2012. As the grand sports event will soon kick off, a number ...
Zynga Attempts Resurgence with “Unleashed” Event and Project
Zynga, which has become one of the shining social gaming companies on internet, is trying to makeover its image and build digital gaming hub as investors worry about its future growth. So far, Zynga has been highly dependent on Facebook. In fact, it accounts for nearly 15 percent of Facebook’s first-quarter revenue, which sounds quite ...
Shortly After Launch Dropbox Dumps Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns
Boxopus, the new BitTorrent startup that allows downloading torrents directly into a Dropbox folder, has been banned by the Dropbox itself. Dropbox has suspended the Boxopus service on the account BitTorrent’s piracy stigma, and the fear that any alliance with BitTorrent may rub off its reputation as the successful cloud storage service provider. Just yesterday ...
LulzSec Hackers Admit DDoS Attacks on High Profile Sites, including CIA, NHS, and Sony
Two of the LulzSec hackers, one of the most notorious internet hackers group, have entered the guilty pleas today for disabling some high profile websites and performing Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Ryan Cleary, 24, and Jake “Topiary” Davis, 19 have admitted hacking CIA, National Health Service, News International, Sony, Nintendo, Arizona State Police, and ...
Gaikai Looks for a Potential Buyer, Enhances Capabilities in Cloud Streaming Gaming
Cloud has greatly transformed the entertainment industry, specifically the gaming entertainment segment. In fact, cloud-streaming for gaming has become one of the much-talked and happening topics in the gaming industry. Cloud is actually changing the gaming business, and carrying it to a better place. With an explosion of social games, especially on mobile, the cloud ...
Security Loopholes in Face.com App Allows Hijack of Facebook, Twitter Accounts
Face.com, the Israel-based facial recognition maker, and the recent acquisition of Facebook, has suffered a big security flaw in its functionality, resulting in hijacking of the Facebook and Twitter accounts of users. The popular Face.com mobile app KLIK that lets users tag faces in photos using Facebook allowed almost anyone to hack the Facebook and Twitter ...
BYOD Still Blocked for Official Work Tasks
A recent survey by Mimecast, a supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has revealed that BYOD – Bring Your Own Device is becoming a hot topic among enterprises, especially due to data security concerns. Mimecast carried out this survey on around 500 IT professionals and administrators in ...
Skype Video Gets Spicy with PlayStation Vita Launch
PlayStation Vita is a popular gaming console for gamers worldwide, and the introduction of Skype for PS Vita has made it even more interesting. Vita users can now make voice and video calls, and even receive calls in the background while playing games. As the gadget also supports Wi-Fi and 3G WLAN, this makes the ...








