Category: Email
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Microsoft Issues a Quick Fix for Serious Hotmail Security Flaw
Hotmail accounts compromised using Firefox add-on and an exploit.
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Google To Launch “GDrive” Cloud Storage in April with Free 1GB Upload Limit?
Software and internet giant Google is believed to be readying to launch its cloud-based storage service in the next few weeks and is set to officially become known as GDrive. An unofficial web source leaked the news, suggesting that Google’s range of services will soon go head-to-head with the likes of Apple’s iCloud and DropBox…
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Google Updates Gmail and Maps Web Apps
Google have just started to roll out a new update to both the Gmail and Maps web apps. The new update in Gmail focuses on the Spam folder. Google say that it one of the key reasons user love using Gmail instead of other webmail services that are available online. The update will now inform…
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Hacker Earns £38,000 by Exploiting Google Chrome in Annual “Pwnium” Contest
A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Google’s Chrome web browser after the internet software and mobile OS giant invited web mischief-makers to participate in this year’s annual Hackathon in a competition called Pwnium. The hacker, a Russian university student who managed to crack Chrome has been awarded £38,000 for his findings after infiltrating…
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Bus Fight Viral Becomes a Movie – Danny Trejo Stars as “Epic Beard Man” in “Bad Ass”
This Gadget Helpline blogger is a big fan of those lesser-known B-movie gems that can only be found by trawling the very bottom shelves of your local Blockbuster. It’s even better when you find out something off of the interwebs has been made into one such movie! Now, I’m not talking about the Oscar nominated story…
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Google Engineers Moonlighting on New Indy Horror Film “Dead Inside”
Managing to carve in a little bit of extra-curricular activity in addition to their frightfully busy schedules, maintaining the world’s most used internet search engine, a handful of Google engineers have scripted and produced a new independently funded and acclaimed horror movie called Dead Inside. Dead Inside is set around a teen house party with…
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XXX Web Domains Go Public – As TalkTalk Filter Fail Leaves HomeSafe Unsafe
XXX web domains have gone live – and no we’re not talking about websites that support the clean-living straight edge lifestyle symbolised by a trio of Xs. This is a different kind of hardcore.. The ICM Registry has now decreed that adult business websites can have their own sector of the internet, akin to an…
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Angry Birds Winter Wonderland Lands On Google Chrome – Highest Scores Win a Samsung Galaxy Note!
Those Angry Birds have gone all festive for their latest outing on the Google Chrome web-browser and they’re also in the mood for Christmas giving – with a prize of a Samsung Galaxy Note up for grabs in a new level entitled Season’s Greedings! Following the theme of advent, 25 new stages of bird-blasting and…
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Sony PS Vita Preps For Japan Launch – Denies Web-Browsing Whilst Gaming
Sony is preparing to launch its Next Generation Portable – the PS Vita – in just 12 days time in the company’s homeland of Japan. We’re excited to finally see the handheld in action, even if we here in the UK won’t get to grips with one until February 22nd. But a slightly disappointing issue…
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Fake iTunes Gift Certificate Targets Black Friday Shoppers
A new malware scam designed to target Black Friday shoppers looking for a bargain has been identified throughout email services by Sophos. The scam is designed to trick users into accessing a .zip file attached to an e-mail, which upon opening allows hackers to access personal information via malware files located within the infected .zip…
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Study reveals 25 WORST passwords of 2011
Situations like the current Facebook hack/spam attacks are increasingly concerning to us web-users and it has helped emphasise the importance of a strong password for protecting our web presences and valuable information from intrusion. So with this in mind, there comes no better time for researchers at SplashData to release their annual list of the…
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Google Gmail back on Apple App Store after iPhone fail
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Google has reinstated its Gmail app for use by Apple iPhone users after it was pulled last week when it was found that errors occurred in the notification system. Back now on iOS 4 and above, the Gmail app was celebrated by Google on its launch on November 3rd and dropped from the App Store…