The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, January 23
Box shares start trading ... EU wants encryption keys ... Uber agrees to get a license ... and more
IDG News Service staff | 23 Jan | Read more
Box shares start trading ... EU wants encryption keys ... Uber agrees to get a license ... and more
IDG News Service staff | 23 Jan | Read more
Firefox users should probably disable Flash, with an attack that only worked on Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday now also effective against the Flash plugin for Mozilla’s browser. The good news? Microsoft has released a fix for affected IE users.
Microsoft is all about Windows 10 this week ... the NSA was lurking in NK networks before Sony hack ... Alibaba's move in the U.S. starts with partners ... and more
IDG News Service staff | 19 Jan | Read more
Big-name security tools aren't catching anywhere near all of the malware they are presented with, according to the latest lab testing results from Enex Labs, which found during testing in the second half of 2014 that as many as 100 percent of tested malware was making it through the defences of eight popular security tools. The results were corroborated by a FireEye study that found traditional security defences simply are not stopping security breaches.
David Braue | 19 Jan | Read more
The Twitter account of the New York Post was hacked, and UPI's was also apparently hit, the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the social media channels of high-profile organizations.
Martyn Williams | 17 Jan | Read more
Facebook is full of scams at the moment, so it pays to be very careful what you click on. The latest is the "Hottest leaked Snapchats Ever" scam and here's what you need to know about it.
Jim Martin | 17 Jan | Read more
US Central Command (Centcom) has dismissed the acts, which saw its YouTube and Twitter accounts briefly fall into the hands of hackers and used to distribute pro-ISIS messages as “cyber vandalism” and said that none of its military servers were compromised during the incident.
Andrew Colley | 14 Jan | Read more
The US Central Command Twitter account was hacked or at least defaced today apparently by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), posting tweets that threaten families of US soldiers and claiming to have hacked into military PCs.
Tim Greene | 13 Jan | Read more
The official Twitter account for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was compromised Monday afternoon, by attackers claiming to support the terrorist group ISIS.
Steve Ragan | 13 Jan | Read more
Supporters of the extremist group known as ISIS or the Islamic State apparently took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts on Monday of the U.S. Central Command, a top military security unit.
Zach Miners | 13 Jan | Read more
Instagram's approach to privacy is nothing like the piecemeal strategy used by parent company Facebook. On the photo-sharing service, your privacy settings are limited to public and private--or at least that's what we thought. Instagram just fixed a bug that let people see your private photos if they had once been public.
Caitlin McGarry | 13 Jan | Read more
A surveillance law that was rushed through by the U.K. government will be reviewed by the country's High Court to determine if it violates human rights.
Loek Essers | 09 Dec | Read more
UK-based Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain has a new .onion address and, like Facebook, it’s got itself a signed SSL certificate to validate its hidden website in an effort to combat thefts against its users.
Pro-Assad nuisance-makers The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have returned from their slumber to pull of another DNS-level hack on possibly hundreds of websites including The London Evening Standard, The Independent, The Chicago Tribune, CNBC, The Daily Telegraph, Forbes and even PC World and the US National Hockey League.
John E Dunn | 29 Nov | Read more
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded.
Zach Miners | 27 Nov | Read more