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• Connected cars gather too much data about their drivers, say motorists associations

  26-11-2015 17:21
  
  Car drivers may imagine they have greater privacy than public transport users, but that isn't necessarily the case in modern, connected cars, European motoring organizations warned this week.To help identify faults or plan maintenance, manufacturers are able to gather performance data from connected cars such as the total distance travelled, or the length and number of trips made.But drivers may be unaware of just how much other information such cars allow manufacturers to gather about them.A st
  
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• Older Dell devices also affected by dangerous eDellRoot certificate

  26-11-2015 16:44
  Users of Dell Windows-based laptops, desktops, tablets and other devices that were bought before August should check if their systems have the self-signed eDellRoot certificate that can compromise their private communications.The certificate was installed by Dell Foundation Services (DFS), an application that Dell preloads on many of its devices in order to ease customer service and technical support functions.After the certificate's existence came to light earlier this week, Dell said that it s
  
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• Millions of embedded devices use the same hard-coded SSH and TLS private keys

  26-11-2015 15:56
  Thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices share the same hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) host keys or HTTPS (HTTP Secure) server certificates, a study found.By extracting those keys, hackers can potentially launch man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept and decrypt traffic between users and millions of devices.Researchers from security firm SEC Consult analyzed firmware images for over 4,000 models of embedded devices from more than 70 manufacturers. In them t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: iOS 9: How to disable Auto-Correction

  26-11-2015 13:00
  
  Auto-Correction is one of those features in iOS 9 that most people tend to either love or hate. When it works well it can be a big time-saver, but when it doesn't it can be a huge headache since it forces you to fix the Auto-Correction changes made by iOS 9.In this tip I'll show you how you can quickly disable Auto-Correction in iOS 9.How to disable Auto-Correction in iOS 9Just follow these simple steps to disable Auto-Correction on your iPhone or iPad:1. Open the Settings app.2. Tap on General.
  
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• InfoWorld's 2015 geek gadget gift guide

  26-11-2015 12:00
  
  The technology gifts you won't find simply anywhereThe gift-giving holidays are fast approaching, and geeks across the world are dreaming about techno toys. In the spirit of spreading holiday cheer of the gadget variety, InfoWorld presents our picks for the coolest gadgets for the gift-giving season tailor-made for that special geek in your life.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Raspberry Pi Zero: The $5 computer is here

  26-11-2015 10:35
  
  The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: at just US$5 its latest creation is as cheap is it can make a computer.The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero follows on from the wildly successful Raspberry Pi A, B and 2 computers, which cost $20 to $35.But despite the staggeringly low price, it still has many of the same features, and runs about 40 percent faster than the Raspberry Pi
  
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• Post Google, Mozilla's new search deals to make up revenue

  26-11-2015 05:46
  The Mozilla Foundation is getting most of its revenue from Yahoo, Yandex and Baidu after the end of its large deal with Google last year.The nonprofit behind the Firefox browser and other software reported its financial results on Wednesday for 2014, the last year for which the lucrative Google deal contributed.The foundation's total revenue for 2014 was US$329.5 million, close to $15 million more than a year prior.The Google deal accounted for for 88 percent of its revenue in 2013, or
  
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• US spy court appoints lawyers to panel of advisers

  26-11-2015 05:17
  A secret U.S. spy court has appointed a five-member panel of advisers as part of the reform of the surveillance of the National Security Agency.The presiding judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review have jointly designated five persons to be eligible to serve as an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, according to a notice on the FISC website.The appointments have been made under the USA Freedom Act, the reform legislation
  
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• Microsoft beefs up security products to block adware

  26-11-2015 03:50
  
  Microsoft is adding a new opt-in defense for enterprises to block adware, which is often sneakily wrapped into free downloads.Adware is often classified as a potentially unwanted application, or PUA, an industry term for applications that aren't necessarily malware but could be a security or performance risk."These applications can increase the risk of your network being infected with malware, cause malware infections to be harder to identify among the noise, and can waste helpdesk, IT, and user
  
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• Dridex spam campaigns target the US, UK and France

  26-11-2015 03:27
  
  The Dridex botnet, which targets financial credentials, appears to be gaining steam again, striking computers in the U.S., U.K. and France.Trend Micro is the latest security vendor to say it is seeing Dridex activity after the U.S. Department of Justice said last month it had significantly disrupted it in a joint action with the U.K. Sometimes referred to as Cridex or Bugat, Dridex is advanced malware that collects financial login details and other personal information that can be used to d
  
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• Google receives steady stream of 'right to be forgotten' requests

  26-11-2015 00:55
  
  Google continues to receive a steady stream of requests to delist specific search results as a result of a controversial European court ruling.The company said Wednesday it has received 348,085 requests since it launched its program after the European Court of Justice's ruling in May 2014. That's up from about 300,000 it had received by the end of July.The court's ruling allows people to ask search engines to delist results to content that is inadequate, irrelevant or not in the public interest,
  
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