An e-mail claiming to be from the Chinese Ministry of Defense actually contains a piece of malware that exploits a hole in Microsoft office, says Trend Micro.Government agencies across several countries are on the hit list of a targeted cyber attack according to security vendor Trend Micro.Officials at agencies across Europe and Asia have been…
Microsoft asked the Obama Administration to allow it to reveal details about how it responded to orders from the government for user account data.Brad Smith, Microsoft's General Counsel, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying there is "no longer a compelling government interest" in preventing companies from "sharing more information" about how they…
Microsoft has been working with the NSA since the launch of PRISM. However the relationship between them is closer than we thought. Microsoft has been giving NSA permission to view data before encryption on the Operating System.This stands true for their new email portal Outlook.com. They have launched a site called Scroogled to dissuade users from using Google email.…
The FBI has joined forces with Microsoft and together they have taken down The Citadel Botnet. They announced that they have disrupted more than 1,000 different botnets that steal individuals financial information.The Citadel Botnet caused the result of over $500 million in losses from over 5 million people and businesses. Citadel was found in over 90 countries including…
This year it seemed that Nokia may survive in the mobile industry after releasing the Lumina 920 and selling it quite successfully. However here in 2013 there will be a large movement in the mobile industry. Nokia will not be able to keep up and their departure from the mobile industry will be some of the largest news.…
Last November Microsoft announced that they will be discontinuing Messenger their instant messenger client for Skype. Well the time is upon us. In January Microsoft let all of the users know that this will be taking place with this memo:Hello,On 15th March 2013 we are retiring the existing Messenger service globally (except for mainland China…
Google’s Chrome browser found that a Turkish certificate authority mistakenly released certificates for the Google.com domain to organizations that were not Google. What’s the problem with this? Well, if an organization has access to a certificate for Google.com they can setup a website as if it’s actually Google.com and run Man in the Middle attacks…
Internet Explorer is once again a target of hackers, and probably always will be since its required for Windows updates to work properly. Microsoft just released a “quick fix” for vulnerability in the older versions of its browser (included with Windows XP and older computers most new computers should be on IE 9 or IE…
Google has long been a target of anti-competitive practice complaints. It could be that they’re a large company and big competition for companies like Microsoft, Apple, etc. but the complaints just keep coming.Google has been tied up in battles over complaints and anti-competitive practices as well for some time now and is just about wrapped up with a federal…
Windows 8, as many predicted would flop appears to be doing just that. According to a recent report Windows 8 sales are a little worse than sluggish, they’re downright terrible. The report shows that Windows 8 is coming in at 1.7% of the computers on the Internet. That same report taken at the same period…
Microsoft has been making leaps and bounds in the Research and Development area, and I am not talking about anything to do with Windows. Recently Microsoft has been blending touch and touch screens together, among their many research projects that they have began.LightSpace basically puts a touch screen on any surface. You will be able…
With Microsoft’s new Surface tablet just being release recently how’s it doing and what do people think of Apples new rival in the tablet market?If sales are any indication on of how consumers view Microsoft’s tablet then Surface is doing quite well. Several online retailers that previously had the lower end Surface tablet in stock…