Sunday, 29 January 2012
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Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:30 AMtgdaily.com — The FBI is considering continuously monitoring all social media sites on a global basis, and is looking for help. It's asking contractors for proposals for a system that could scan the networks, globally and in real time, to identify potential threats. The deadline for responses is 10 February. See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:29 AMpcmag.com — Despite a phenomenal earnings report this week, Apple has taken a few rather brutal hits in the media related to the treatment of workers who assemble the iPhone and the iPad. In response, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly sent out a long letter to his staff refuting claims that Apple might be insensitive to worker mistreatment at its factories. See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:27 AMzdnet.com — Microsoft is moving steadily ahead with its plan to enable Linux to run on its Windows Azure cloud platform. See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:27 AMbbc.co.uk — Intel has agreed to buy about 190 patents from RealNetworks as part of a deal worth $120m (�76m). See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:26 AMbbc.co.uk — The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group. See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:26 AMbbc.co.uk — Security firm Symantec has warned customers to stop using its pcAnywhere software. The company confirmed that "old" source code stolen by a hacking group had exposed vulnerabilities in the remote access program. See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:22 AMtorontosun.com — A criminal investigation is underway after UFC.com was hacked Sunday. Users visiting the website were redirected to UGNazi.com, where they were treated to bizarre music and a cartoon drawing of Adolf Hitler. Taking credit is a team of hackers called the Underground Nazi H4ck3rGr0up. See the complete story here.
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:15 AMcnn.com — Online social networking site Twitter said Thursday it will begin deleting users' tweets in countries that require it -- but it will still keep those deleted tweets visible to the rest of the world. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 07:13 AMmoney.cnn.com — Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have a message for Google: "Don't be evil." A group of developers from those companies banded together to call Google's bluff on claims about its controversial new Search Plus Your World tool. The recently launched tool prominently spotlights Google's fledgling Google+ social network in Google.com's search results -- while leaving rival social networks in the dark. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:59 AMreghardware.com — Hacktivist guild Anonymous has taken to Twitter to ask followers for tips on who the group should attack next. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:49 AMitworld.com — Hackers under the AntiSec banner appeared to have hacked late Monday the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. federal government's online security website, in protest against controversial legislation. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:46 AMbbc.co.uk — Microsoft said it suspects a former employee of an antivirus software firm was behind the Kelihos botnet attacks. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:45 AMcnn.com — The largest solar storm for seven years is expected to send a shower of radioactive solar particles racing towards Earth at almost 1,400 miles a second this week, according to NASA. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:33 AMpcworld.com — The desktop PC is dead; the era of the gleaming beige tower is over. The age of smartphones, laptops, and tablets is here--or so say numerous pundits and critics. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:32 AMpcworld.com — Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:32 AMpcworld.com — Apple became the biggest buyer of semiconductors last year, ahead of Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard, Gartner said on Tuesday. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:31 AMdarkreading.com — Shoe retailer Zappos.com and its parent company, Amazon.com, are being sued for exposing customer data in a breach affecting some 24 million customers. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:29 AMtechcrunch.com — Sonos this morning sent out an email to users advising them to immediately update their wireless music system software with a security “enhancement” in order to plug a hole that “in rare cases” could have been exploited by malicious people to gain access to sensitive, personal customer data. See the complete story here.
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 06:28 AMdigg.com — Call Anant Agarwal’s work crazy, and you’ve made him a happy man. Agarwal directs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s vaunted Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL. The lab is housed in the university’s Stata Center, a Dr. Seussian hodgepodge of forms and angles that nicely reflects the unhindered-by-reality visionary research that goes on inside. See the complete story here.
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 09:16 PMdarkreading.com — ‘Pwn2Own’ will up the ante with more prolonged contest, fewer targets, more payout for first-, second-, third-place winners -- plus an extra Google bounty for cracking Chrome See the complete story here.
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:04 PMh-online.com — Linus Torvalds released a Linux kernel update last week which fixes a flaw in the access control to memory. Shortly afterwards, exploits appeared making it possible to gain root privileges using this error. See the complete story here.
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:04 PMmirror.co.uk — READING, writing and computer game fans are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s, a study has suggested. See the complete story here.
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:03 PMtechjournalsouth.com — Did you receive a new tablet computer or an e-reader over the holidays? As Amazon introduced its Kindle Fire tablet, selling it at a slight loss, Barnes & Noble offered the competing Nook, and the iPad remained popular, the way we read and consumer media is changing. See the complete story here.
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 05:03 PMpcworld.com — Twitter and federal law enforcement are investigating the hacking of a U.S. Senator's Twitter account Monday afternoon. See the complete story here.
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