Vodafone Reveals Massive Global Surveillance Program Vodafone, the world’s second largest mobile phone company, has announced that numerous government agencies have direct and open access to the conversations of its 381 million customers across the globe. According to a report published by The Guardian; Vodafone, […]
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Pirate Bay Founder Arrested Peter Sunde, one of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay, has been arrested in southern Sweden to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations after being on the run for nearly two years. Mr. Sunde had been wanted by Interpol
If you think Windows 8 is tough, watch these kids trying to figure out how to use a computer from the “olden days” – a thoroughly amusing insight:
Antivirus solutions have always been quite effective at protecting against known threats but it can be quite a different story when zero-day (or unknown) malware variants are factored into the equation. According to the results of AV-Test’s most recent series of testing, there can be
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Microsoft NOT Selling off Xbox or Bing Rumors of the proposed sell off have been doing the rounds but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said recently that he doesn’t want to sell off either Xbox or Bing. Mr. Nadella was speaking at the Code Conference a
TrueCrypt, the most popular free and open source encryption software, has abruptly changed its homepage to display a message saying that the software is not secure and suggesting that existing users should migrate to Bitlocker: As you can imagine, the net is abuzz with news
It’s been 10 years since Facebook presented the world with a mechanism for sharing everything with everyone, and it’s taken all those 10 long years for Facebook to finally realize that, as far as privacy goes, it’s better to err on the side of caution.
If you tend to keep up with current news you will no doubt have come across the multitude of stories regarding the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to award individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’. The Right to be Forgotten – Background First off,
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The actual extent of the eBay hack remains unknown at this stage but eBay is in the process of sending out notification emails to all its members advising them to change their passwords. eBay currently has 145 million or so registered users worldwide so this
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AT&T Set to Acquire DirecTV for Almost $50 Billion Seems most transactions these days are counted in the billions. Rumors of the DirecTV acquisition have been circulating for the past few weeks and AT&T has finally confirmed the details. The deal came together at roughly
Online marketplace eBay has released a statement urging eBay users to change their passwords. The company said hackers attacked between late February and early March with login credentials obtained from “a small number” of employees. The hackers then accessed a database containing all user records
It amuses me no end whenever I come across rants aimed at the evil Microsoft. I doubt there is another organization that has been as much maligned or the subject of as many conspiracy theories as Microsoft. Money hungry, uncaring and dictatorial are just some
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