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Ever signed up for something online and then found it very difficult to unsubscribe? Then you’ve been to a roach motel – one of many web design tricks employed by some firms to drum up more trade. Microsoft provoked outrage [Read More…]
Public servants in Singapore will be blocked from accessing the internet on work computers from May next year. The moves aims to plug “potential leaks from work e-mails and shared documents amid heightened security threats,” the Straits Times newspaper said. [Read More…]
A woman from Cairns, Australia, used Siri to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter when she stopped breathing. Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child’s room to help her but dropped it as she turned on [Read More…]
A scientist monitors the current climatic conditions at the main observation centre at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in New Delhi. (Reuters Photo) New Delhi: India’s forecasting of the monsoon – the crop-nourishing seasonal rains that are the lifeblood [Read More…]
An American who helped run a successor to the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to eight years in jail. Brian Farrell admitted conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, in March this year. Silk Road 2.0 was shut [Read More…]
Australian food-ordering and ticket-selling apps, TV-streaming platforms and a car-sharing site temporarily stopped working because of problems at one of Amazon’s data centres. The businesses all rely on the US company’s cloud computing division – Amazon Web Services – to [Read More…]
The alarm on Mitsubishi’s Outlander hybrid car can be turned off via security bugs in its on-board wi-fi, researchers have found. The loophole could mean thieves who exploit the bugs gain time to break into and steal a vehicle. The [Read More…]
Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses. Those identified were then subjected to anti-semitic abuse via social [Read More…]
Cyber-thieves are adopting ransomware in “alarming” numbers, say security researchers. There are now more than 120 separate families of ransomware, said experts studying the malicious software. Other researchers have seen a 3,500% increase in the criminal use of net infrastructure [Read More…]
Remote login software TeamViewer beefs up its security controls following a spate of users reporting their accounts have been hacked. Installed on millions of PCs, the TeamViewer software lets people access a machine via the web. Reports of attacks on [Read More…]