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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The launch of the six strikes anti-piracy scheme in the United States has boosted demand for VPN services and BitTorrent proxies. Data from Google reveals a big surge in searches for terms such as “BitTorrent VPN” and “BitTorrent proxy” over the past two weeks. Some...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | HACKING, SECURITY
Apple has fixed a security problem that had existed for some time in its App Store application on iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). In July 2012, Google researcher Elie Bursztein found and reported to Apple that there were numerous vulnerabilities in its App Store app...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the message-deleted dept. The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year. The messages — of which the FTC...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat Report for the last three months of 2012 names Android as the home of 96% of the new “mobile threat families”. Of 100 new threat families detected in that quarter, 96 of them were based on Android, up from the previous...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | SECURITY
Microsoft’s SharePoint, drawing application Visio get patched Internet Explorer vulnerabilities warrant notice in this month’s set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday bulletins and need to be fixed quickly even though the sheer number of patches may seem daunting....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, LAW, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the answering-questions-of-patriotism dept. Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old U.S. Army soldier who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of internal memos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been held by the government for two and a half years. On...
