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Microsoft on Friday released a temporary fix for a Microsoft Word vulnerability that allows the Duqu worm to attack PCs The flaw, in TrueType font parsing, could let an attacker run arbitrary code in kernel mode, installing programs; view, change or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights, Microsoft said....
Research In Motion crossed a grim threshold on Wall Street recently The BlackBerry maker's shares closed at US$19.02 Thursday, less than a third of their $66.20 high for this year, attained in February, and lower than they've been since May of 2004, when they hit $19.99....
Criminals in countries all over the world, including allies of the United States, are committing cybertheft and industrial espionage against America, the National Counterintelligence Agency (NCA) has warned In a report submitted to Congress in October, the agency states that foreign collectors of sensitive economic information can operate in cybers...
Any science fiction fan or Trekkie knows what tractor beams are -- those beams that pull objects toward the device that generates them, sort of like an invisible fishing line and reel. NASA believes enough in the possibility of creating real tractor beams that it's provided a US$100,000 grant to researchers at its Goddard Space Flight Center to lo...
Google will limit usage of its Maps API (application programming interface) starting early next year Starting early 2012, websites and apps using Google Maps APIs can generate up to 25,000 map loads per day for each API and up to 2,500 map loads per day for APIs that have been modified using the Styled Maps feature....
Hackers reportedly shut down Internet service in Palestine Tuesday Service was apparently completely shut down in Gaza and partially shut down in the West Bank after hackers unleashed malware on the main ISP in Palestine, Paltel....
From April through mid-September, with a 45-day hiatus in between, hackers were busy attacking a series of targets, culminating in the chemical and defense industries, Symantec has reported A total of 29 chemical industry companies and 19 others, mainly in the defense sector, were hit....
The Obama administration is urging Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation the White House first proposed in May That proposal incorporates many of the ideas of Senate and House leaders, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt pointed out....
AT&T on Monday announced the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and the HTC Vivid ...
Google unveiled a software update for Google TV on Friday that includes a slew of apps These are based on Android 3.1, Google spokesperson Jacques Herbert told TechNewsWorld. This is the latest version of the so-called "Honeycomb" release....
RIM has agreed to let Indian officials conduct lawful surveillance of consumers in that country using its BlackBerry services, according to a Wall Street Journal The decision is yet another step in RIM's long, drawn-out battle with New Delhi over the latter's demands to monitor users of BlackBerry services in India....
Dropbox, a cloud service that lets users store and share documents and media files over any device, has introduced a paid version of its product aimed at businesses Known as "Dropbox for Teams," this comes with new administrative controls, centralized billing and phone support and, of course, more storage....
Facebook is planning to build a massive new data center in the industrial town of Lulea in Swedish Lapland, about 70 miles from the Arctic Circle The data center will consist of three buildings, the first of which will cover about 33,000 square yards, Facebook spokesperson Alex Kirschner told TechNewsWorld....
Research In Motion has once again pushed back the release of a much-desired software update for its PlayBook tablet This appears to be due to technical problems....
Nokia announced its first smartphones running Windows Phone at Nokia World 2011, being held in London through Thursday ...
We've been having a jolly good time lambasting the United States federal government and, by extension, its various CIOs for Washington's problems in cybersecurity implementation It turns out now that the fault, dear readers, lies not with the CIOs but with the government itself....
Verizon Wireless has disabled the bootloader unlock feature in the software on the Droid Razr, the Android smartphone that Motorola unveiled last week Motorola had shipped the Droid Razr with a bootloader that can be unlocked and relocked, company spokesperson Becki Leonard told LinuxInsider....
Those tactical robots some police departments use to deal with dangerous situations are great, but they have one drawback -- they're specialized and so are limited to a few uses What if a police or fire department could create a bunch of robots as needed for different uses?...
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland will launch a "comprehensive audit" of Facebook Ireland before the end of the month, DPC spokesperson Ciara O'Sullivan told TechNewsWorld on Friday The audit will assess Facebook's compliance with the requirements of the Irish Data Protection Acts as they apply to its users outside of the U....
Google Apps seems to have stubbed its toe in providing services to the 30,000 employees of the city of Los Angeles Google and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), which had contracted to implement Google Apps in the city's IT infrastructure in 2009, have apparently failed to meet security requirements as promised, and the city is out for blood....
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