Bogus Chrome, Firefox extensions pilfer social media accounts

Trend Micro has found two malicious browser extensions that hijack Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts. The attackers plant links on social media sites that, if clicked, implore users to install a video player update. It is a common method hackers...

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Microsoft discloses weak Surface revenue

Microsoft's Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device. The company said in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the Surface had earned revenue of...

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US appeals court upholds warrantless collection of phone location data

Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. Court of Appeals...

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Is Snowden a Russian citizen? No, it's just a Google Translate trick

The announcement appeared in small text on the Russian president's website: "Let me speak from my heart: Edward Snowden is a Russian Citizen. Thanks to @homakov!" The Twitter handle belongs to Egor Homakov, a security researcher with a penetration testing...

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Flash breakthrough promises faster storage, terabytes of memory

In the ongoing quest for faster access to data, Diablo Technologies has taken what could be a significant next step. Diablo's Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture, expected to show up in servers shipping later this year, allows flash storage components...

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Yale grad's 'Prism' program turns text metadata into wavy art

What if the NSA took your text message metadata and made a flowing, colorful diagram with a timeline? The U.S. spy agency -- probably -- doesn't do that. But a 22-year-old Yale graduate, Bay Gross, was actually inspired by the U.S. government's Prism...

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Google Play store inundated with scam apps, Symantec says

A steady stream of questionable applications is flowing daily into Google's Play store for Android devices, according to security vendor Symantec. Over the last seven months, Symantec found more than 1,200 suspicious applications in the Play store....

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US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected claims of an Apple patent that figures prominently in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, according to documents filed by the South Korean company in a U.S. federal court. The...

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Apple supplier Pegatron slammed for alleged labor abuses in China

Apple supplier Pegatron is facing criticism from a watchdog group for poor working conditions at its factories in China. The Taiwanese electronics maker came under fire for allegedly violating Chinese labor laws with the publication Monday of a new...

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Dish is likely eyeing new acquisitions after losing Sprint

As the dust settles after SoftBank's $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint, losing bidder Dish Network may be just getting started at stirring up the U.S. mobile industry. The satellite TV and Internet provider tried to buy Sprint and Clearwire but failed...

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Review: Hover Zoom expands images without extra clicking

Hover Zoom is one of the best and most useful browser plugins in existence...provided you use the Chrome browser, as it is not available for anything else.  It allows you to move your mouse over a small picture and instantly magnify it, without...

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Global cybercrime costs billions, new estimates suggest

Cybercrime and espionage could be costing the world between $70 billion and $400 billion a year from a total global economy of $70 trillion, a new estimate by the Center for Stategic and International Studies (CSIS) has calculated. In the context of...

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Why Internet Explorer 11 is the right browser for business

Today, Microsoft released a Developer Preview version of IE 11 for Windows 7. Newer doesn't always equal better, but IE 11 has some power under the hood that business users will benefit from. To some extent, a browser is a browser. They all render and...

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What's next for Dish after losing out on Sprint?

As the dust settles after SoftBank's US$21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint, losing bidder Dish Network may be just getting started at stirring up the U.S. mobile industry. The satellite TV and Internet provider tried to buy Sprint and Clearwire but...

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Drone show attendees flock to new $700 model

3D Robotics gave a sneak preview of a comparatively cheap consumer drone at an unmanned aircraft convention in San Francisco this week. The company's new quadcopter, or four-rotor helicopter, can be controlled from a tablet running an Android flight...

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Apple in China recommends use of official power adapters for iPhone

Apple is advising its customers in China to use the company's official USB power adapters when recharging their devices, as police continued on Friday investigations into the death by electrocution of a local woman that may be linked to an iPhone. The...

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Open-source project, Crypton, seeks to make encryption easier

An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap encryption into their applications to thwart online surveillance efforts. The project, called Crypton, comes from SpiderOak, a company known for its Dropbox-like online...

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Apple's smartphone market share drops to three-year low

Apple's share of the smartphone market dropped in the second quarter to its lowest level in three years, research firm Strategy Analytics said. The share of the iPhone slipped to 13.6 percent in the quarter from 16.6 percent in the same quarter last...

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How to Evaluate Moving Legacy Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud

Many enterprises are now planning to move a significant portion of their infrastructure to the cloud, says Dave LeClair, senior director of strategy at Stratus Technologies, a specialist in high availability solutions. A recently released survey conducted...

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U.S. lawmakers vote against reining in NSA phone records collection

The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday narrowly rejected an effort to stop the National Security Agency from collecting millions of U.S. residents' telephone records. Late in the day, the House rejected a bipartisan amendment, with more than 30...

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Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract

Amazon Web Services has filed a complaint in a U.S. court after the Government Accountability Office sustained in part a protest by IBM against the award of a contract by the CIA for a cloud computing project. IBM had challenged the evaluation of proposals...

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SEC charges Texas man with running Bitcoin Ponzi scheme

A Texas man was charged on Tuesday in U.S. federal court with allegedly running a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, allegedly siphoning the virtual currency from victims to pay for rent, food and gambling. Trendon T. Shavers of McKinney, Texas, ran the Bitcoin...

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White House opposes amendment to curb NSA spying

The White House is opposed to an amendment to a defense spending bill that would limit spending on mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. The amendment proposed by Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, would limit spending only...

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SIM card vulnerabilities easy to fix, researcher says

A pair of severe security problems in millions of SIM cards should be easy for operators to fix, according to the German security researcher who found the issues. Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs in Berlin previewed research earlier this week...

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Newer versions of LTE to make rapid advances, ABI says

Emerging technologies for 4G LTE networks are expected to make rapid advances over the next few years, helping mobile networks keep up with data growth and bringing more users worldwide into the LTE fold. By 2018, a majority of the world's LTE subscriptions...

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