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Instagram last week began offering packaged videos tied to topical events, starting with a stream of video content to celebrate Halloween In launching a curated content initiative, Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is following in the steps ofSnapchat andTwitter. Snapchat launched Live Stories in June, and Twitter introduced a feature called M...
The good news about mobile malware in 2015 is that growth has slowed down. The bad news is that the malware entering the market is more virulent than ever While there hasn't been a sharp rise in the volume of mobile malware this year, the increasingly malicious nature of the types of malware and attacks is alarming,Blue Coat Systems said last week ...
The latest version of Apple's streaming media set-top box, expected to hit U.S. retail stores on Friday, has gathered a bundle of mixed early reviews Some reviewers saw great potential in the US$149 diminutive black box designed to pump movies, TV shows, games and apps from the Internet to a television set. Others found plenty to criticize....
Qualcomm on Tuesday announced a muscle video camera for surveillance systems It's part of the company's Snapdragon 618 IP camera platform. The unit combines a six-core, 64-bit processor; next-generation graphics crunching; and embedded digital signal processing....
The padlock on a browser's address bar is supposed to give Net travelers some security in insecure virtual space, but that's not always the case. Some dangerous flaws lurk behind the padlock They can weaken the effectiveness of encrypted Internet connections and compromise TLS/SSL processes, including domain validation, end-to-end encryption, and t...
Hackers hypothetically could turn Fitbit health bands into PC-infecting malware carriers, Fortinet security researcher Axelle Apvrille demonstrated Wednesday in a presentation at the Hack.lu conference in Luxembourg. Apvrille showed how it was possible to access a Fitbit's Bluetooth connection and, in a mere 10 seconds, infect it with a maliciou...
Bad actors are exploiting an obscure technology found in telecommunications networks around the world to track mobile users and engage in fraud, and they could be costing carriers millions of dollars in lost revenues The technology, called "SS7," is a signal protocol developed in the 1970s for setting up phone calls....
Tesla Motors' stock price on Tuesday dropped more than 11 percent followingConsumer Reports' withdrawal of its favorable recommendation for the company's Model S sedan Poor reliability contributed to Consumer Reports' decision to withdraw its recommendation, although it noted that 97 percent of Tesla owners surveyed said they would buy a car from t...
The cybersecurity pact the United States and China agreed to last month hasn't stopped Chinese hackers from continuing their efforts to steal intellectual property from U.S. companies, CrowdStrike said Monday "Over the last three weeks, CrowdStrike Falcon platform has detected and prevented a number of intrusions into our customers' systems from ac...
Siri and other smartphone digital assistants may do your bidding -- but they may do a hijacker's as well That's what two researchers discovered when they began to tinker with the effects of radio waves on smartphones. They could use the waves to issue commands to any Android or iOS phone running Google Now or Siri....
Edward Snowden's legacy gained another chapter last week when the European Court of Justice rejected an agreement between the United States and European Union that created a Safe Harbor for U.S. companies handling personal data of overseas citizens In essence, the agreement provided that a U.S. company's word that it had adequate safeguards in plac...
Facebook on Tuesday revealed it's experimenting with making video clips easier for users to find in its mobile and desktop applications In coming days, a limited number of users will see the additions, which include a video button at the bottom of its iPhone app and in the Favorites menu of its website....
Apple recently disabled its Apple News app for users in China, according to multiple reports triggered by software developer Larry Salibra's alerts last week Although Apple is mum on the subject, users based in China have begun complaining on the Internet about the News app being unavailable in that country....
Samsung on Thursday assured users that their information is safe following a computer intrusion of a key company linked to its mobile payment system The intrusion ofLoopPay by a gang of hackers known as the Codoso or Sunshock Group may have occurred as early as March, according to a report in The New York Times....
Amazon has become the first stop for nearly half of online shoppers researching potential purchases, according to a report BloomReach released Tuesday Nearly half (44 percent) of some 2,000 survey participants said they go directly to Amazon to search for products.
Distributed denial of service attacks have evolved from protest tool to criminal weapon More than one in three DDoS attacks are used to plant malware or a virus on company systems, and 40 percent of them result in data theft, according toNeuStar's semiannual DDoS attack and protection report released last week....
Adobe on Monday raised the curtain on two mobile apps and a basket of product upgrades at its MAX conference in Los Angeles Both new apps -- Photoshop Fix and Capture CC -- are free, but they initially will be available only to users of Apple's mobile devices....
Improved performance and some app enhancements to boost productivity highlight the latest version of Apple's desktop operating system, OS X 10.11 El Capitan Apple on Wednesday made El Capitan available for download to its users from the Mac App Store....
Sonos on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its top-of-the-line Play:5 speaker The redesigned speaker includes three mid-woofers and three tweeters, and it can be set up in three orientations: by itself, or paired with another speaker -- either vertically for tight sound, or horizontally for a more immersive experience, the company said....
Zerodium last week posted a million-dollar bounty for juicy iOS 9 bugs or jailbreaks Zerodium runs a market where exploits and vulnerabilities are bought and sold, according toDamballa....
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