A newly discovered malware program designed to infect Linux systems is tied to a sophisticated cyberespionage operation of Russian origin dubbed Epic Turla, security researchers found. The Turla campaign, also known as Snake or Uroburos, was originally uncovered in February, but goes back several years. The massive operation infected computers …
Google удалила из магазина Play Store все приложения для работы с популярным торрент-трекером The Pirate Bay. Компания объяснила разработчикам, что эти программы противоречили политике Google в области защиты интеллектуальной собственности. …
Корпорация Samsung Electronics приступила к продажам очков виртуальной реальности Gear VR. Пока новинка доступна только в США, где стоит 200 долларов. …
A newly discovered malware program designed to infect Linux systems is tied to a sophisticated cyberespionage operation of Russian origin dubbed Epic Turla, security researchers found. The Turla campaign, also known as Snake or Uroburos, was originally uncovered in February, but goes back several years. The massive operation has infected …
Крупнейшая в мире соцсеть Facebook позволила пользователям искать определенные записи их друзей в ленте новостей. Об этом говорится в сообщении Facebook. …
Хотя мы уже знаем, что первая потребительская сборка Windows 10 выйдет в конце января, а финальный вариант мы увидим где-то в конце лета или осенью, до сих пор открытым остается вопрос о параметрах обновления. В частности, пользователи задаются вопросом, смогут ли они обновить Windows 10 Preview до RTM, когда последняя …
46 лет назад, 9 декабря 1968 года, американский изобретатель Дуглас Энгельбарт из Стэнфордского исследовательского института продемонстрировал в работе первую в мире компьютерную мышку. …
В Сети появилась видеозапись, на которой Microsoft демонстрирует работу программы Lumia Camera 5 на Nokia Lumia 830. …
What you need to know to land the job Thanks to strong demand and high median annual wages, more and more people have pursued careers as computer programmers over the past few years. If you are looking to break into the industry (or to move into a new position by …
U.S. demands to seize emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland are threatening the privacy of U.S. citizens, Microsoft said in its appeal in an lawsuit that threatens international relations and may violate European privacy laws. Microsoft is battling a U.S. district court ruling to hand over emails to …
After Microsoft’s chief operating officer last week said the company was going to change the Windows business model, analysts tried to figure out exactly what he meant. Those business model modifications, said Microsoft’s Kevin Turner, would be revealed early next year when the company will outline how it plans to …
U.S. demands to seize emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland are threatening the privacy of U.S. citizens, Microsoft said in its appeal in an ongoing lawsuit that threatens international relations and may violate European privacy laws. Microsoft is battling a U.S. district court ruling to hand over emails …
Getting cloudy has always been a mixed proposition in the IT world. Your users want the convenience of using a variety of devices and having their work accessible on all of those devices from wherever they are, whereas you still have to worry about data security, lost computers, federal regulation …
Remember October’s flap about the vulnerability in SSL, known as POODLE? Remember all the smug people running servers that only supported TLS? Well, they may not be so smug this morning. It turns out that some TLS implementations are vulnerable to a variant of the same ‘padding’ issue. Here we …
Фанатам качественной китайской техники будет интересно узнать о том, что новый смартфон Xiaomi Mi5, обладающий экстремально маленьким ободком будет представлен на всемирной выставке Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015, которая стартует в следующем месяце в Лас Вегасе. Согласно аналитику Mobile Telecom Суну Ченгхью (Sun Changxu), аппарат будет обладать дисплеем, размер которого …
Help desk pilot fish gets a trouble ticket from a user who says her PC suffered a “thermal event” the day before, just before she went home — and now the computer won’t boot. “When I checked on the computer, the built-in system diagnostics had finished running and there were …
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is looking beyond typical consumer electronics and making a play for the home appliances market with a new air purifier that can be controlled via a mobile phone. The fast-rising company on Tuesday unveiled its “Mi Air Purifier”, which will go on sale in China through …
Retailers love thinking about how they can use IT analytics of social media to get close to their customers. But when a retailer breaks through the invisible social media wall and reacts to an online post with a very personal in-store interaction, it may not reap the desired increased-sales outcome. …
NEC has developed a camera system that can detect deterioration in bridges and other structures simply by analyzing imagery. The electronics manufacturer is calling it the world’s first system to use high-definition video cameras and image-recognition technologies to analyze and estimate structural vibrations. NEC researchers developed an algorithm that can …
The last time that Congress enacted major telecommunications regulation reform, in 1996, the state of technology was very different than it is today: Fewer than 15% of Americans had a mobile phone, under one-third of U.S. households were online, and virtually all of those that were online had only slow, …
A U.S. secret court has extended the authorization of the National Security Agency to continue surveillance of phone records in its current form, after a reform bill ran into difficulties in the Senate. Besides stopping the NSA from collecting bulk phone records of Americans from phone companies, the USA Freedom …
Apple can have access to China, as long as it protects users’ privacy, a top Chinese official told the company’s CEO last week. The head of the country’s Cyberspace Administration, Lu Wei, met with Apple’s Tim Cook on Saturday as part of a visit to the company, China’s state-run Xinhua …
Oracle is trying to make sure its billion-dollar copyright dispute with Google over the Android OS doesn’t make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The companies have been battling for years over whether Google infringed Oracle’s copyright when it lifted programming interfaces from Java for use in its Android mobile …
Top executives at Sony Pictures received an email extorting money three days before the company’s computer network was taken offline in a major hack. The email message was among thousands released on Monday when the email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online. It was the latest release …
The city of Portland, Oregon, has sued Uber, ordering it to halt its service until it obtains the permits to operate legally. The lawsuit, issued Monday, comes less than a week after Uber began operating in Portland. The city already had said Uber would be operating there illegally without the …
The email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online on Monday, the latest release of potentially embarrassing corporate information following a major hack on the company’s computer networks two weeks ago. The files were uploaded to file-sharing sites and the Bit Torrent file-sharing network, and links to them …