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Skype Privacy? Doesn’t Exist, Sorry. Microsoft Can Read EVERYTHING
You probably think of Skype as a secure means of online communication, what with messages being secured with end-to-end communication. But according to an investigation by Ars Technia, you’d be dead wrong – it seems that Microsoft is making a habit of listening into your communications. In a joint investigation with security researcher Askhan Soltani, ...
Dell Dumps OpenStack Public Cloud For Partner Tech
Dell has made a serious about turn with regard to its public cloud strategy, opting to sell its services through a number of partners rather than stay involved with the OpenStack cloud initiative based on VMWare technology. In an announcement yesterday the company unveiled its new Cloud Partner Program with initial partners including US firms ...
Anonymous Operation Takes Down Guantamo Bay
The United States’ prison camp at Guantanamo Bay has attracted controversy for years, but in the last few months the situation has escalated with reports of hunger-striking inmates being force-fed to keep them alive. The US has received a lot of criticism for the inmate’s treatment, and in a show of support the hacktivist collective ...
China’s State-Sponsored Hackers Resume Attacks On US
After lying low for a period of almost three months, China’s state-sponsored hackers are at it again, attacking the computer servers of US businesses in a concerted effort to steal classified information. Things are slightly different this time around though, as the hackers are said to be using different techniques in an attempt to cover ...
Forrester Research: IT Shows Little Interest In Windows 8
Windows 8 has been the source of endless debate since its launch last year, attracting just as many fans as it has critics. It’s looking more and more likely that Microsoft will never regain its dominance of the consumer sector given the popularity of Apple and Android devices, but the real test will be in ...
Yahoo! Japan Security Breach: 22 Million User IDs “Possibly” Stolen
Yahoo!’s security nightmare shows no signs of letting up. Following reports earlier this month the the company is unable to protect its customer’s email accounts from being hacked and used to send massive amounts of spam, it’s Japanese subsidiary has suffered an equally embarrassing breach. Reuters is reporting that Yahoo! Japan has had to ask ...
Yahoo’s Tumblr Acquisition a “Foregone Conclusion”
Yahoo’s bid to acquire the blogging service Tumblr could be wrapped up as early as this Monday, according to reports at the weekend. Whilst neither Yahoo or Tumblr have made any official announcement, the deal is reportedly a “foregone conclusion”, according to the tech blog All Things D. The news was also confirmed by the ...
Transport Plots A Course For The Industrial Internet
The United States is a vast and expansive country that’s become utterly dependent on its transportation infrastructure, including its roads, its railways and its flight paths. Its transport networks can be thought of as the oil that keeps the engine – the economy – of the country ticking over, ensuring that factories are kept supplied, ...
Twitter “Hate Map” Outs Racists And Homophobes In The US
Twitter’s long been one of the favourite sources of information for researchers studying people’s trends and perceptions, and for good reason – with millions of users spread across the world sending out billions of tweets every single day, there are few more easily accessible sources of data that represent the voice of just about every ...
Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America
Julian Assange has come out with yet another verbal attack on the US, this time warning that Latin American nations are at risk of losing their sovereignty due to their dependence on American telecommunications technologies and companies. The WikiLeaks founder issued his warning during a videoconference at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, ...