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Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but she’s one of the biggest. While she stopped short of calling for government-accessible backdoors in encryptions, she did call on Silicon Valley to start doing its
The controversial “Safe Harbor” laws that allowed technology companies to move user data between the Europe Union and the United States were ruled invalid by the European Court of Justice this morning. These laws made it so that companies like Facebook and Google could transfer user data
Amazon has decided to join the ever-growing list of tech companies that are trying to finally kill off Flash by making their services less reliant on it or just banning it altogether. This month will be the last time the company starts accepting ads that use Flash, because after September 1st, Amazo
A year ago, Yelp was making a small but still respectable $2.7 million profit, but that number has transformed into a $1.3 million loss. Even with the company raising its revenue by more than 50% year-on-year and increasing the number of reviews posted to its service by 35%, Yelp is still losing mon
Reductions, reductions, reductions. That’s been the gist of BlackBerry’s strategy these past couple of years, and not just with the company’s workforce either. According to CEO John Chen, the struggling company has decided to reduce the number of smartphones it releases every year
Oh, you thought everyone was done attacking Sony for last year’s infamous Sony Pictures hack? Well, think again. Despite numerous threats and warnings from the company, WikiLeaks has added an additional 276,394 Sony documents to the already massive collection of data it obtained from the hack.
For the first time in… well.. forever, I almost swooned. After years of waiting, not to mention numerous hoaxes and false rumors, Bethesda is finally announcing Fallout 4. Straight from the Twitter of Bethesda Game Studios, a famous Fallout image was shown alongside a link to a Fallout-esque w
BitTorrent has been releasing new products over the past couple of years that use the company’s peer-to-peer technology in a way that doesn’t involve file-sharing. One such product is Bleep, which is an ultra-private messaging service that has been in beta for a while now and promises ab
Grooveshark has been around for almost a decade, and has been in legal battles with the music industry for just as long. Unfortunately for users of the music streaming service, it looks like the battles are finally over, and Grooveshark has lost. The company’s website now links to a single ima
A compartmentalized botnet with a wide selection of specialized web injects makes it easier to attack bank accounts across the globe.For the attacker who wants the perfect botnet for their particular target but doesn’t want to build it themselves, there is now Vawtrak – a large botnet th
NASA’s Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission began. But its software is getting bogged down, so NASA’s doing a full system backup, memory wipe, and reboot. It’s just like your routine computer cleanup, just from
Online security can be quite a challenge to maintain these days actually, and it does not help when users are less than knowledgeable. In fact, approximately 50,000 sites have been allegedly hit by backdoors no thank to malware that target a popular and vulnerable WordPress plugin, at least accordin
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