Perhaps in an attempt to address the privacy concerns of its hundreds of thousands of users, social networking site Twitter has moved to bar intelligence agencies in the United States from gaining access to public tweets via Dataminr.
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Adblock Plus and Flattr want you to donate for content you consume if you don’t like ads
There is something distracting with flashy ads for content readers who navigate across free websites to acquire information. But it’s free after all, so consumers have to settle for the ads, without which they would not have been able to view the free content in the first place.
ImageMagick security flaw lets hackers execute malicious code remotely
ImageMagick, an open source image processing software, has been infected with a security hole that allows attackers to upload images that contain malicious code intended to deceive the ImageMagick software to run the hacker’s commands remotely.
Hackers targeted Japanese websites with spear phishing
You would be wise not to visit Japanese websites at present as security researchers from Symantec discovered a persistent spear phishing attack perpetrated by a group of hackers calling themselves Tick.
Anonymous hits Kenya’s foreign ministry
Anonymous continues with its effort of fighting corruption and anomaly in governments worldwide, this time hitting Kenya’s foreign ministry by leaking nonpublic documents belonging to the agency.
Microsoft wants you to use Cortana search box only with Edge and Bing
In an effort to increase the adoption of its Bing search engine and Edge browser, Microsoft has a new mandatory order for Windows 10 users: search only using Bing and open all of the links with Edge.
