Mobile versions of social networks and websites hosted using WordPress were two of the major targets for malware in the past quarter, a report from AVG reveals, while small businesses are being warned to crack down and keep their systems safe. The warning comes during a big month for malware, after an infection spread across...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — New revelations in a full report detailing the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into Google’s Street View service are raising questions about whether the search giant escaped scrutiny for capturing personal information from millions of unknowing households across the nation. Chief among the new disclosures: The engineer who intentionally wrote the software code...Read More
The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware hosts, Kaspersky Lab research has revealed. As has previously been established by various sources, between September 2011 and February of this year, the malware was distributed using social engineering attacks...Read More
April 23, 2012, 12:32 PM — The WordPress development team released WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday in order to address several vulnerabilities in the popular blogging platform as well as in three external libraries that are bundled with it by default. The new WordPress version updates the bundled Plupload library to version 1.5.4 after its developers...Read More
What a rush! Google has hidden a new Easter Egg on its homepage that’s bound to get gaming geeks hyped. Type the words “zerg rush†into the search bar on the Google.com site and you’ll see your search result on what seems like a normal page — until the “Oâ€s from the Google logo start...Read More
 For many of us, the “Like†button is mostly associated with Facebook but two years ago WordPress.com decided to take the plunge and launched its own “Like†button system. The button effectively allowed readers to like a post that they are interested in and the reader’s “gravatar†(Globally Recognized Avatar) would subsequently be added...Read More
Amid the excitement over Google Drive, the search giant’s new Dropbox competitor, Microsoft recently improved a similar online sync and storage service, SkyDrive. Microsoft added the ability to store files online and sync across multiple devices right from your Windows or OS X desktop. That puts SkyDrive squarely in competition with Dropbox and Drive, five...Read More
Computerworld – The long-awaited Google Drive is a simple, useful, straightforward cloud storage and syncing service that offers a full 5GB of online storage for free, with no surprises along the way. Utilitarian rather than flashy, it makes storing files to the cloud and syncing them among multiple devices as simple as saving a file...Read More
The oft-rumored and delayed data-storage service made its debut today, joining a growing list of high-tech players serving consumers and small businesses. Drive lets people store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they are accessible from any Web-connected device and easily shared with others. If you wanted to e-mail a video shot...Read More
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