• Swedish police raid Pirate Bay and force it offline

    Swedish police raid Pirate Bay and force it offline
    Swedish police raided a data center in Stockholm on Tuesday, seizing computers and forcing The Pirate Bay website offline.The site hosts links to thousands of movies, TV shows and songs, much of it shared illegally, and its operators have had several run-ins with the law.Tuesday’s raid comes a month after a fugitive cofounder of the site, Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, was detained at the Laos border while trying to enter Thailand. He was convicted in 2009 of assisting in copyright infringement
  • Sony says premium strategy is achieving results

    Sony says premium strategy is achieving results
    Sony is winning customers and seeing clear results from a strategy to focus on premium products in the U.S. and improve interaction with consumers, a top executive said Tuesday.The company, which for years tried to battle lower-priced competitors, decided more than a year ago to concentrate on high-end products that showed off the best of Sony technology and allowed it to make money. And, so far, so good, said Mike Fasulo, president of Sony Electronics, at a briefing with reporters in San Fra
  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses Exchange and Explorer flaws

    Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses Exchange and Explorer flaws
    Internet Explorer and Exchange Server top the list of Microsoft programs needing to be patched by IT administrators this month, now that the company has rolled out its latest round of “Patch Tuesday” security fixes.Overall, Microsoft has issued seven security bulletins for December, including three that are critical, covering security vulnerabilities found in Windows (both the server and desktop editions), Office, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Internet Explorer.The first bulletin
  • Open Authentication Spec From FIDO Alliance Moves Beyond Passwords

    Open Authentication Spec From FIDO Alliance Moves Beyond Passwords
    An open industry alliance of 150 members that includes many of the world's biggest vendors -- but notably, not Apple -- released specifications Tuesday that promise to secure online communications without using passwords.
    The group, called the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance includes Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Bank of America, MasterCard and Visa. Also included are device manufacturers such as Dell, Samsung and BlackBerry, and even enterprises offering various services such as Aetna an
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  • Intel Wants to Put the Smart Into Your Smartwatch With Data, Analytics and Chips

    Intel Wants to Put the Smart Into Your Smartwatch With Data, Analytics and Chips
    Intel’s working hard to establish a chiphold in the Internet of Things, as it emphasized in an “IoT Insights” event on Tuesday. But it’s not going to go it alone.
    Just as Intel’s Xeon chips are built upon an ecosystem of partnerships, standards, and specifications, the company’s forging similar kinds of agreements in IoT—a space dominated by embedded processors that already have a head start on Intel’s Quark and Edison chips.To read this article in full or to leave a comment
  • Amazon.com Tells Customers, 'Make an Offer'

    Amazon.com Tells Customers, 'Make an Offer'
    Amazon.com is going after online auction giant eBay just in time for the big holiday shopping season.
    Amazon launched its "Make an Offer" feature today, allowing shoppers to negotiate lower prices on what it says will be 150,000 items offered by independent, third-party sellers. They offer a variety of new, used, refurbished, and collectible merchandise on Amazon's site.
    On its first day, the Make an Offer feature will let people negotiate a price on an Indiana State Sycamores signed basketb
  • U.S. Utilities Face Up to $48B Revenue Loss From Solar, Efficiency

    U.S. Utilities Face Up to $48B Revenue Loss From Solar, Efficiency
    Energy utilities face losing between $18 billion and $48 billion a year in the U.S and up to €61 billion a year in Europe by 2025 as solar power and energy conservation initiatives grow, according to Accenture.
    The Accenture analysis, based on extensive modeling and a survey of global utilities executives, estimates that energy demand could be reduced by more than 15% due to new energy technologies by 2025.
    For example, researchers at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics at the
  • Microsoft Tells Windows 10 Users to Uninstall Office

    Microsoft Tells Windows 10 Users to Uninstall Office
    Microsoft today took the unusual step of telling users running Windows 10's Technical Preview to uninstall Office before applying one of December's security updates.
    "We just made a tough call after working through the night that I thought I should share with you," wrote Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft's operating system group, in a four-part Twitter understatement Tuesday.
    "We have a security update going out today, and the installer fails on 9879 if Office is instal
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  • HP Turns to 3D Printing to Revive Flagging Fortunes

    HP Turns to 3D Printing to Revive Flagging Fortunes
    On top of its decision to split into two companies, Hewlett-Packard's move into 3D printing appears to be an attempt to spur revenues and rekindle a culture of innovation within the company.
    Key to HP's success with its new Multi Jet Fusion industrial 3D printing system will be how open it is to outside developers. An open architecture would allow third-party software and hardware development for applications HP's technologists might not envision.To read this article in full or to leave a co
  • What Happens Next in the Cisco Suit Against Arista?

    What Happens Next in the Cisco Suit Against Arista?
    Arista Networks’ stock took it on the chin when Cisco slapped the company with patent infringement and copyright law suits last Friday, losing almost 20% of its value at one point as investors and others mulled the long term implications of the suits.
    The short answer: this is going to take a long time and could get pretty ugly for Arista.
    One of the suits accuses Arista of violating 14 Cisco patents, while the second is for extensive copying of Cisco’s user manuals and multi-word CLI c
  • Apple iOS 8.1.2 for iPhone, iPad Addresses Disappearing Ringtones Mystery

    Apple iOS 8.1.2 for iPhone, iPad Addresses Disappearing Ringtones Mystery
    Bob Brown, Network World

    Apple on Tuesday released an iOS update (8.1.2) for the iPhone and iPad that includes unspecified bug fixes, aside from one that the company identified as possibly resulting in ringtones purchased from iTunes disappearing.
    If you have had issues with tones going poof!, Apple recommends heading here after updating to 8.1.2.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Microsoft delivers Office mobile management in Intune update

    Microsoft delivers Office mobile management in Intune update
    The updates Microsoft has made to its Intune PC and device management service this week are partly catching up to other MDM systems with features like containers for apps and files, a managed browser and bulk enrollment for iOS devices. But they also add unique options for managing Office apps on iOS and Android.Intune now lets you set conditional access to Exchange Online and Office 365 (a feature that was already available to customers with Exchange 2013 on-site). “Before you let email or
  • Over 30 vulnerabilities found in Google App Engine

    Over 30 vulnerabilities found in Google App Engine
    Serious vulnerabilities exist in Google App Engine (GAE), a cloud service for developing and hosting Web applications, a team of security researchers has found.The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to escape from the Java Virtual Machine security sandbox and execute code on the underlying system, according to researchers from Security Explorations, a Polish security firm that found many vulnerabilities in Java over the past few years.“There are more issues pending verification—we es
  • MIT Names U.S. CTO Megan Smith as 2015 Commencement Speaker

    MIT Names U.S. CTO Megan Smith as 2015 Commencement Speaker
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a seriously early jump on its 2015 commencement exercises, naming U.S. CTO and MIT alum Megan Smith as its speaker for the June 5 event.
    Smith, who has undergraduate (1986) and master's (1988) degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, was named by President Barack Obama as the chief technology officer of the United States in September. Before that, she was VP of new business development at Google.
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  • Warning: Today's Windows 10 Security Update Has a Known Conflict with Office

    Warning: Today's Windows 10 Security Update Has a Known Conflict with Office
    Microsoft's Gabe Aul just tweeted a warning about one of the security updates due to come down the Automatic Update chute in a few hours. Unfortunately, he didn't mention the update by name, and he didn't describe the symptoms, but he did give a workaround.
    If you are running Windows 10 Tech Preview build 9879 (almost all of you Windows10 testers are on build 9879), and you have Office installed on your machine (not clear which version/s of Office), heed Aul's advice.
    Here's what he tweeted:
  • Mobile Device Makers Unleash FIDO

    Mobile Device Makers Unleash FIDO
    Vendors of mobile devices are lining up to implement an authentication scheme meant to make online transactions both simpler and more secure, known as the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) specification, which is being released today.
    Within a year there could be 20 to 30 vendors integrating FIDO in shipping products, says Michael Barrett, who heads up the FIDO Alliance, an industry group of more than 150 members that has written the specification.
    + Also on Network World: Can the FIDO Alliance He
  • TigerText revamps UI, analytics in crowded enterprise mobile messaging market

    TigerText revamps UI, analytics in crowded enterprise mobile messaging market
    TigerText has revamped its enterprise mobile messaging app’s interface and analytics, the latest player making moves to stand out and stay relevant in a crowded, intensely competitive market where consolidation appears imminent.The updated app, also designed to be easier to deploy and manage by IT departments, is intended to help TigerText broaden its customer base beyond health care, where it’s most popular, to other verticals like finance, government and legal.TigerText is one of many c
  • Uber banned in Spain as pressure on company mounts worldwide

    Uber banned in Spain as pressure on company mounts worldwide
    Ride-hailing service Uber has hit yet another legal roadblock, with a Madrid court ordering it to stop all its activities in Spain.The company’s operations in the country were banned at least temporarily by a Madrid commercial court for “unfair competition” and conducting unauthorized services, after a complaint was filed by the Madrid taxi association. In Spain, the company runs UberPop, a ride-sharing service that typically uses unlicensed drivers driving their own cars.The court issu
  • Best Apple iTunes Apps of the Year are Brain Trainer, Number Puzzler

    Best Apple iTunes Apps of the Year are Brain Trainer, Number Puzzler
    Apple has named Elevate, a set of brain training games, and Threes!, an addictive numbers game, as its top 2014 app and game, respectively. Elevate

    Elevate Brain Training app

    Elevate is a free (with in-app purchases) brain training program from Elevate Labs that the app maker says was "designed in collaboration with experts in neuroscience and cognitive learning." The iPhone/iPad app is built to improve users' "focus, speaking skills, processing speed, memory, math skills and more." You
  • News Organizations Demand Release of Steve Jobs Video

    News Organizations Demand Release of Steve Jobs Video
    A trio of news organizations yesterday petitioned a federal judge to order Apple to release a two-hour video deposition given by the company's co-founder Steve Jobs just months before his death.
    In a motion filed Monday, the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN asked U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to give them copies of the Jobs deposition, which the iconic executive sat for in April 2011 as part of an antitrust case now before a jury.
    Jobs died in October 201
  • BrandPost: The Evolving Role of the CIO: An interview with Geoffrey Moore, Part II

    BrandPost: The Evolving Role of the CIO: An interview with Geoffrey Moore, Part II
    CIO and IT leaders are being asked to achieve extra things, with a reduced budget, more quickly. Do more, with less, faster: Most IT professionals consider this an impossible mission. But it’s not.
    The new role of IT is as a broker of services: Tomorrow’s CIO has to work out what capabilities could provide the greatest impact to the business and how these are best delivered—build it yourself or broker from a provider.
    I sat down with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author, speaker and ven
  • IBM: CISO’s Outgunned in the Cybercrime Coral

    IBM: CISO’s Outgunned in the Cybercrime Coral
    When it comes to battling sophisticated cyber attacks, Chief Information Security Officers feel well outgunned by the seedy underside of the Internet intent on wrecking havoc on their enterprise environments.
    IBM’s third annual Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) study of 138 security executives found that 60% said their organizations are outgunned in the cyber war and that sophisticated external threats were identified by 40% of security leaders as their top challenge with regulatio
  • Blackphone Plans App Store Filled With Super Secure Apps That Respect Your Privacy

    Blackphone Plans App Store Filled With Super Secure Apps That Respect Your Privacy
    When the security-focused Blackphone started shipping in June the phone came with a lot of limitations. Nowhere was that more apparent than with third-party apps, which could end up crashing due to a user’s privacy preferences. Blackphone, the company, will look to improve that situation in January when the company rolls out a brand new app store to its users.
    This new Blackphone app store isn’t a Google Play imitator, however. Instead, Blackphone will stay true to its mission and offer
  • The Turla espionage operation also infected Linux systems with malware

    The Turla espionage operation also infected Linux systems with malware
    A newly discovered malware program designed to infect Linux systems is tied to a sophisticated cyberespionage operation of Russian origin dubbed Epic Turla, security researchers found.The Turla campaign, also known as Snake or Uroburos, was originally uncovered in February, but goes back several years. The massive operation has infected computers at government organizations, embassies, military installations, education and research institutions and pharmaceutical companies in over 45 countrie
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Among 8 Finalists for Time's Person of the Year

    Apple CEO Tim Cook Among 8 Finalists for Time's Person of the Year
    Apple CEO Tim Cook, who dazzled the industry with new iPhones and iPads and showed strength by becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to publicly announce he is gay, has made Time magazine's short list for Person of the Year for 2014.
    Cook, who filled Steve Jobs' big shoes in 2011, has a shot at winning an honor from Time that Jobs never won. The very well compensated Cook was also a finalist in 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • BrandPost: IT All Adds Up

    It’s true; Office 365 represents a seismic shift in how Microsoft delivers the productivity stack. What’s more, it brings huge changes in how we consume that stack. This new equation holds a great deal of promise: a workforce that seamlessly collaborates across devices and applications, using a suite of tools to communicate, share ideas, execute strategies, and measure results faster than ever before. Okay, maybe even share some cute puppy photos. Who can resist? It’s hard to resist thi
  • Learning Scrum: An Empirical Approach to Product Development

    Learning Scrum: An Empirical Approach to Product Development
    What Is Scrum?Image by ShutterstockPerhaps the most popular agile method, scrum adds specific, required practices on top of programming and testing. This causes some people to call it prescriptive. Scrum doesn't actually tell teams how to do the essential practices of figuring out what to build, how to build and then test, though.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • New Programs Aim to Boost Computer Science Education

    New Programs Aim to Boost Computer Science Education
    The Obama administration is unveiling a series of new efforts aimed at boosting computer science education at the K-12 level, including funding commitments from tech companies and philanthropic organizations and pledges from dozens of school districts to expand their curriculum offerings.Monday marked the beginning of Computer Science Education Week, an occasion the White House observed by hosting an event that included 20 middle-school students from Newark, N.J., on hand to participate in an
  • Amazon's 'Make an Offer' Program Lets You Haggle for Even Lower Prices

    Let the e-haggling begin. On Tuesday, Amazon announced a new 'Make an Offer' program, which lets you negotiate the price of an item with third-party marketplace sellers (i.e. items not sold by Amazon).
    'Make an Offer' is currently available for about 150,000 collector's items, such as sports jerseys, autographed posters, collectible coins, and fine art. In 2015, however, Amazon plans on expanding the program to "hundreds of thousands of items." It won't be universal, though; sellers don't ha
  • Anti-graft squad targets corruption in Ukraine's army - Yahoo! Maktoob News

    Anti-graft squad targets corruption in Ukraine's army - Yahoo! Maktoob News
    Yahoo! Maktoob News
    Anti-graft squad targets corruption in Ukraine's army
    Yahoo! Maktoob News
    The first challenge for Arakhamia -- a Georgian IT executive whose family fled to Ukraine during civil war in the 1990s -- was how to select an unimpeachable team. Arakhamia subjected candidates to a four-and-a-half hour polygraph exam designed to test ...

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  • 5 Myths and 5 Mistakes Job-Hunting Coders Must Know About

    5 Myths and 5 Mistakes Job-Hunting Coders Must Know About
    What you need to know to land the jobThanks to strong demand and high median annual wages, more and more people have pursued careers as computer programmers over the past few years. If you are looking to break into the industry (or to move into a new position by augmenting your skills), you need to be aware of these five myths and five mistakes that can keep you from getting that job offer. Read on as Coding Dojo founder Michael Choi puts you on the road to the job you want. Good luck!To read th
  • Notezilla 8 Review: This Monster Crushes Other Note Programs Like its Namesake Crushes Tokyo

    With Microsoft providing Sticky Notes for free, and multiple free- or low- cost options available, what does Notezilla 8 have to offer to justify its $30 price tag? As it turns out, a whole lot. Notezilla pushes the bounds of the sticky note category to their limits, edging close to freeform text database/outliner territory. Ian Harac

    Notezilla notes have toolbars, titles, and scrollbars.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • 4 Ways Building a Better Brand Attracts Better IT Talent

    4 Ways Building a Better Brand Attracts Better IT Talent
    Without a positive brand as an employer, you'll be hard-pressed to attract and retain the quality talent your business needs to stay competitive. To build a positive employer brand, you must shift your thinking to focus on your single greatest asset -- your employees -- and improve employee engagement.

    Emily He, CMO at Saba Software, has seen a major shift in the way companies approach their own branding as they work to build a culture and image that will appeal to elite talent. "Without a
  • For Microsoft, New Windows Revenue May Mean 'Subscriptions'

    For Microsoft, New Windows Revenue May Mean 'Subscriptions'
    After Microsoft's chief operating officer last week said the company was going to change the Windows business model, analysts tried to figure out exactly what he meant.
    Those business model modifications, said Microsoft's Kevin Turner, would be revealed early next year when the company will outline how it plans to make money on Windows as it gives away an increasing number of licenses that once generated revenue.
    "We've got to monetize [Windows] differently," Turner told an audience at a tec
  • Most Companies Fail at Keeping Track of Patches, Sensitive Data

    Most Companies Fail at Keeping Track of Patches, Sensitive Data
    The majority of businesses don't have a solid system for tracking sensitive data, or a mature patch management process, according to new survey of IT professionals released by Trustwave.
    In 19 percent of companies there was no control or tracking of sensitive data at all, said respondents to the 2014 State of Risk survey, which was conducted by a third-party on behalf of the Chicago-based security firm. And 63 percent said their process for managing this data was not fully mature.
    "That is a
  • Feds' bid to seize Irish emails threatens US citizen's privacy, Microsoft says

    Feds' bid to seize Irish emails threatens US citizen's privacy, Microsoft says
    U.S. demands to seize emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland are threatening the privacy of U.S. citizens, Microsoft said in its appeal in an ongoing lawsuit that threatens international relations and may violate European privacy laws.Microsoft is battling a U.S. district court ruling to hand over emails to U.S. law enforcement. The company was ordered to hand over the data despite it being stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland. According to the district court, the location of the dat
  • Building a Private Cloud, of Sorts, with OwnCloud

    Building a Private Cloud, of Sorts, with OwnCloud
    Getting cloudy has always been a mixed proposition in the IT world. Your users want the convenience of using a variety of devices and having their work accessible on all of those devices from wherever they are, whereas you still have to worry about data security, lost computers, federal regulation and the control that is necessary to ensure your organization's information technology resiliency. Add the fact that most cloud services like OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox -- let's face it, the on
  • Box Unveils a New Partner Program to Boost Customer Trust

    Box Unveils a New Partner Program to Boost Customer Trust
    A lot of businesses trust cloud sync-and-store provider Box, but they trust a lot of other solutions, too, for things like identity, data loss protection and digital rights management.
    But you can't always trust them to integrate very well without some help.
    With that in mind, Box is reaching out to its most trusted developer partners -- including new partners Symantec, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks and OpenDNS -- with the introduction of Box Trust, a program to certify that those outside solut
  • Top 5 Tips for This Year's Tech Santa

    Perhaps, between this month’s tinselly advertisements, you’ve heard that this is the Season of Giving. While many people consider the name nothing more than an invitation to pass poinsettia’s between friends, some understand that it also means giving of your time and talents. For example, as a Macworld reader there’s every chance that you have technical knowledge to spare—some of which would be deeply appreciated by those family and friends you visit over the holidays. Might I sugg
  • China's Xiaomi steps into connected devices market with new air purifier

    China's Xiaomi steps into connected devices market with new air purifier
    Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is looking beyond typical consumer electronics and making a play for the home appliances market with a new air purifier that can be controlled via a mobile phone.The fast-rising company on Tuesday unveiled its “Mi Air Purifier”, which will go on sale in China through the company’s site on Dec. 16. Like its other products, Xiaomi is selling the air purifier at a low price that could undercut its rivals, and will offer it at 899 yuan (US$146).Founded only f
  • Getting in Customers’ Faces

    Getting in Customers’ Faces
    Retailers love thinking about how they can use IT analytics of social media to get close to their customers. But when a retailer breaks through the invisible social media wall and reacts to an online post with a very personal in-store interaction, it may not reap the desired increased-sales outcome.
    Let’s back up for a moment. Because so much of social media happens in the public sphere, retailers have the theoretical ability to capture and analyze millions of customer interactions and mak
  • NEC image-processing tech can detect invisible damage to bridges

    NEC image-processing tech can detect invisible damage to bridges
    NEC has developed a camera system that can detect deterioration in bridges and other structures simply by analyzing imagery.The electronics manufacturer is calling it the world’s first system to use high-definition video cameras and image-recognition technologies to analyze and estimate structural vibrations.NEC researchers developed an algorithm that can pick up numerous minute vibrations on the surface of a structure by analyzing imagery of it, the company said Tuesday. Image-compression
  • A Fresh Look at Communications Regulation

    A Fresh Look at Communications Regulation
    The last time that Congress enacted major telecommunications regulation reform, in 1996, the state of technology was very different than it is today: Fewer than 15% of Americans had a mobile phone, under one-third of U.S. households were online, and virtually all of those that were online had only slow, dial-up connections. Amazon.com and eBay were small startups (both were launched in 1995), and Mark Zuckerberg was still living at home with his parents, preparing for his bar mitzvah.
    The 19
  • US court extends NSA surveillance rules in current form

    US court extends NSA surveillance rules in current form
    A U.S. secret court has extended the authorization of the National Security Agency to continue surveillance of phone records in its current form, after a reform bill ran into difficulties in the Senate.Besides stopping the NSA from collecting bulk phone records of Americans from phone companies, the USA Freedom Act aimed to restrict access of the NSA to these records by requiring the use of targeted selection terms.It also has a provision for the appointment of a special advocate tasked with
  • Zorgpartners Friesland kiest Raet voor HR-administratie

    Zorgaanbieder Zorgpartners Friesland besteedt de HR-administratie voor zijn 8.400 medewerkers uit aan Raet. De medewerkers van Zorgpartners Friesland maken hierbij gebruik van de HR-oplossing Youforce. De beide partijen hebben hiervoor een tienjarig contract ondertekend.

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  • How an anti-graft squad is rooting out corruption in Ukraine's army - Times LIVE

    How an anti-graft squad is rooting out corruption in Ukraine's army - Times LIVE
    Times LIVE
    How an anti-graft squad is rooting out corruption in Ukraine's army
    Times LIVE
    The first challenge for Arakhamia -- a Georgian IT executive whose family fled to Ukraine during civil war in the 1990s -- was how to select an unimpeachable team. Arakhamia subjected candidates to a four-and-a-half hour polygraph exam designed to test ...

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  • China reminds Apple on need to support privacy, security in its products

    China reminds Apple on need to support privacy, security in its products
    Apple can have access to China, as long as it protects users’ privacy, a top Chinese official told the company’s CEO last week.The head of the country’s Cyberspace Administration, Lu Wei, met with Apple’s Tim Cook on Saturday as part of a visit to the company, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency said in a Monday report.Lu, who’s been leading China’s efforts to regulate the Internet, told Cook during the visit that China was an open market, but that all tech products must “saf
  • Uber showdown in Portland escalates as city files suit

    Uber showdown in Portland escalates as city files suit
    The city of Portland, Oregon, has sued Uber, ordering it to halt its service until it obtains the permits to operate legally.The lawsuit, issued Monday, comes less than a week after Uber began operating in Portland. The city already had said Uber would be operating there illegally without the proper permits or inspections.“Uber and its drivers have failed to comply with the permit and other important public health and safety requirements,” said a cease-and-desist order from the Portland B
  • Hackers leak top Sony executives' emails

    Hackers leak top Sony executives' emails
    The email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online on Monday, the latest release of potentially embarrassing corporate information following a major hack on the company’s computer networks two weeks ago.The files were uploaded to file-sharing sites and the Bit Torrent file-sharing network, and links to them were posted in a message that claimed to be from the same hacking group behind the Sony attack.“We have already given our clear demand to the management team of Sony, howeve
  • Forgotten subdomains boost risk of account hijacking, other attacks

    Forgotten subdomains boost risk of account hijacking, other attacks
    Subdomains that once served a purpose but later were forgotten by website administrators can be abused by hackers to attack users of sites under the same main domain.Back in October, a Web security firm called Detectify warned that many companies have created subdomains to use with third-party services, such as remotely hosted helpdesk systems, code repositories and blogs, but then forgot to disable them after closing their accounts on those third-party services.As a result, attackers can now

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