November 2014

  • Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers

    Don’t want your home address or other personal info published to the world? This weekend, take an hour or two to make yourself a less visible target. Many women gamers and developers, as well as those who support them, have lately come under attack from online trolls. A common intimidation […]

  • Symantec IDs sophisticated ‘Regin’ malware

    The back-door-type Trojan was likely developed by a nation state Symantec researchers have identified a particularly sophisticated piece of malware, called “Regin” that was likely developed by a nation state and has been used to spy on governments, infrastructure operators, businesses, researchers and individuals since at least 2008. “Regin displays […]

  • The must-have iPad office apps, round 9.5

    Google’s newly completed Apps suite can’t beat Apple’s improved iWork or Microsoft Office The on-the-go business app toolkit for the iPad Of the tens of thousands of apps available for the iPad, only a relative few are must-have tools for business use. In the last year, the landscape for iPad […]

  • Patch Tuesday: 16 security advisories, 5 critical for Windows

    All supported versions of Windows are affected including Windows 10 technical preview Microsoft is issuing the largest number of monthly security advisories since June 2011, five of them critical and affecting all supported versions of Windows. And applying the patches will be time consuming, experts say. “Next week will tell […]

  • Microsoft to focus on search apps with Bing

    Director of search says he’s focused on integrating search into Microsoft products, services Microsoft’s director of search admitted that its Bing search engine can’t compete with Google search in a full-on faceoff, but the company will focus instead on search applications. Stefan Weitz, who leads Microsoft’s search efforts, told an […]

  • Major banks prep their own mobile payment apps

    The apps could prove to be a major competitor for Apple Pay and competing products Several major national and international banks are planning to launch their own mobile payments apps next year. The banks would be major competitors to handset makers Apple and Google because unlike others pushing mobile wallet […]