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Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail account details openly traded by Russian mafia
The details of almost 300 million Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other email accounts are being freely traded by Russian criminals, according to Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security.Holden was the man who last year uncovered the...
Opera launches the worlds first browser with built-in VPN
Opera has launched the first mainstream browser to incorporate a VPN. The browser exited beta today and marks a significant line in the sand for privacy-keen surfers."Everyone deserves to be private online if they want to be. By adding a free, unlimited VPN...
LiveDrive hike Cloud storage prices
Resellers and customers of web backup biz LiveDrive are digesting its recent sweeping price changes with varying degrees of frustration. Some say they’ll quit the service and others are seeking legal advice.As revealed last week, LiveDrive reseller Monster...
Apple issues iOS 9.3.1 update to fix link crashing glitch
Apple has issued the iOS 9.3.1 update to iPhones and iPad, which includes a fix for the link-crashing glitch plaguing early adopters of iOS 9.3.iOS 9.3.1 is available to download now, and you can install it by heading over to Settings > General >...
Cloud and microservices help Expedia innovate quickly
Twenty years since Expedia launched and helped transform the travel booking industry, the ability to innovate rapidly remains vital to its success. In a highly competitive market this requires a modern and agile IT environment, says Elizabeth Eastaugh,...
The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
IF YOU ARE 1 of 500 million people who use Dropbox, it’s just a folder on your computer desktop that lets you easily store files on the Internet, send them to others, and synchronize them across your laptop, phone, and tablet. You use this folder, then you...
Microsoft reportedly upgrading PCs to Windows 10 without user permission
Windows 10 has apparently begun to download automatically on computers running Windows 7 and 8.1 without any user permissions.A discussion on Reddit claims that users of Windows 7 Professional, which already had a payload of nagware for Internet Explorer dumped...
Look out and don’t be fooled – Locky Ransomware Encrypts Local Files and Unmapped Network Shares
A new crypto-ransomware type was recently discovered using an uncommon distribution method. Dubbed as “Locky” the ransomware variant infiltrates system through a malicious macro found in a Word document. While ransomware that relies on macros have been...
SharePoint Online Team Storage now 1TB
Auditing, reporting and storage improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive For Business GREAT NEWS - Microsoft have increased the amount of default SharePoint Online storage from 10GB to 1TB plus 0.5GB per user to use across SharePoint Online, Office 365 Groups...
Microsoft pitches Windows 10 Mobile Lumia 650 at business market
Microsoft has unveiled a new Lumia smartphone that will run Windows 10 Mobile out of the box.The Lumia 650 has a 5in 720 HD screen and is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 212 chip. It measures 6.9mm thick and comes with an 8MP rear-facing camera and a 5MP...