Tag: government
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Google Teases Android L Security Features
Google’s new version of Android, Android L, or Lollipop, is set to become the latest and greatest addition to the Google smartphone OS lineup. of course, other, older Android systems will be lingering around on the market in various capacities once Lollipop arrives, but as far as Google’s concerned the new OS represents the current…
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Lenovo May Be After Blackberry… Again
Blackberry is rumored to be in the process of selling itself to another company, again, in the second time in the last year. Both times the rumors had it that Lenovo, a manufacturer of tablets and printers from China, had its heart set on the troubled Canadian tech company. Last time Lenovo tried to make…
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UK Internet Trolls Could Face 2 Years In Jail
After several celebrities have been targeted by angry online commenters following their controversial comments on serious subjects such as sexual assaults, such as Chloe Madeley, the daughter of former TV hosts Richard and Judy, the government and lawmakers are considering increasing the sentence for posting ultra-venomous online comments, The Daily Mail is reporting. Of course,…
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Twitter Suing US Govt. Over Data Requests
The internet is becoming more and more entangled with government snooping and government data requests than ever before, with major companies such as Google and Microsoft being asked to hand over sensitive personal information about or created by people suspected of crimes or other misdemeanour’s. However, back in January both Microsoft and Google won a…
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Google and Dropbox Increasing Security
You might have read our report on the increasing of security by Google on Android L, automatically encrypting user personal information and restricting access to pictures, emails and other personal correspondence without a password. In an additional initiative to prevent hacking by shady individuals as well as the intrusion into user data by government agencies,…
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Windows XP Support Ends – Lock Up Your Laptops
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A lot of people are throwing words like ‘retro’ or ‘classic’ and sometimes even ‘dated’ to describe literal pieces of junk they own. I’m looking at you, hipsters. Well, here’s a piece of retro fashion for you, it’s nice to look at, it’s kind of slow and it’s literally everywhere, it’s Windows XP. So, what…
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British Government Rejects BlackBerry 10 Mobile Operating System as Unsafe
BlackBerry appeals to the Communications Electronics Security Group as British leaders say BB10 is a risk to sensitive data..
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XXX Porn Sites to be Automatically Barred?
Access to internet porn and “adult” websites is coming one step closer to being automatically barred from view on internet providers…
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Baby Named ‘Facebook’ in Egypt After Social Network Used in Support of Uprising
Protests have been raging in Egypt for 20 days now, with an uprising against the country’s government well under way. But we’re not a political website and it’s something that’s far from our area of expertise. What we do know a lot about is social networking. So imagine our amusement/bewilderment when we discovered that amidst…
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UK government recruiting spies through social media
Code-cracking game from GCHQ gives you the chance to apply for a job
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Anonymous Threat: Facebook will fall on 5th of November
Tech and social mischief makers, Anonymous have issued video statements on clip site YouTube – making its intentions known towards Facebook and encouraging others to ‘kill’ their beloved Social Network tomorrow, the 5th of November. On the same date as their mascot Guy Fawkes threatened to topple parliament in the gun powder plot of 1605,…
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Anonymous turns anti-hero in fight against child abuse online
Anonymous, the online hacking troupe that has previously crippled world governments and entertainment giants has turned its attention to cleaning up the internet from child pornography and preventing paedophilia. The tech troublemakers have issued a warning to a number of servers, in particular Freedom Hosting, accusing the web hosts of “openly supporting” child pornography. This…