Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to various U.S. financial institutions. Dubbed Stabuniq, the Trojan program was found on mail servers, firewalls, proxy servers, and gateways belonging to U.S. financial institutions, including banking firms and credit unions, Symantec software engineer Fred Gutierrez said Friday in a . "Approximately half of unique IP addresses found with Trojan.Stabuniq belong to home users," Gutierrez said. "Another 11 percent belong to companies that deal with Internet security (due, perhaps, to these companies performing analysis of the threat). A staggering 39 percent, however, belong to financial institutions." (Also see ) Based on a map showing the threat's distribution in the U.S. that was published by Symantec, the vast majority of systems infected with Stabuniq are located in the eastern half of the country, with strong concentrations in the New York and Chicago areas.
Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn Electronics said it could integrate more camera features into its devices after making a US$200 million investment in a U.S. company that makes cameras for action sports enthusiasts. Foxconn's investment, announced last week, buys the company a 8.88 percent stake in GoPro, a company that sells to take video and pictures of outdoor activities such as skydiving, surfing, and skiing. Foxconn's major clients include Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and other electronics vendors, and the company of smartphones, tablets, TVs, and video game systems. The company foresees the consumer tech industry moving toward more products capable of "content creation," and expects GoPro can help Foxconn better tap into this market, said Foxconn spokesman Simon Hsing. The investment will also pave the way for GoPro to expand U.S. sales by leveraging Foxconn's manufacturing capacity, he added.
Research In Motion will let its customers pick and choose individual BlackBerry services such as security and mobile device management after it introduces the long-awaited platform next month. Offering different tiers of service and letting users choose from a menu will help to better suit the needs of individual customers, President and CEO Thorsten Heins said during announcement of RIM's fiscal third-quarter financial results last week. For example, smaller businesses may only need basic BlackBerry e-mail capability and not more advanced services, he said. Today, RIM's services come in a bundle and are paid for monthly, either directly or through a carrier. Enterprise customers who use several services will continue to generate monthly services revenue for RIM, while some consumer BlackBerry users won't pay anything, Heins said. RIM will add a variety of new services, including mobile device management for BlackBerry and other devices, when it comes out with BlackBerry 10, Heins said. Enterprises will be able to buy a "platinum" package with all of them or just choose a selection of services.
A Milan appeals court Friday overturned the conviction of three Google managers for violating Italy's privacy laws by allowing the posting of a video showing the bullying of a handicapped student. The executives—Senior Vice President David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer Peter Fleischer and Chief Privacy Counsel George Reyes—were handed suspended six-month prison sentences by a Milan assize court in February 2010 for allowing the disturbing video to be posted on the Google Video website. The appeals court upheld the lower court's decision to acquit the three Google executives of defamation, confirming the assize court's acquittal on that charge of Arvind Desikan, the former head of Google Video Europe. set a legal precedent in Europe by holding executives of an Internet operator responsible for content posted on the Web by a third party.
It was business as usual for Instagram's developers this week despite the over the photo-sharing service's overreaching terms of use agreement. An changes to its use policy that were widely interpreted as allowing Instagram to sell its members' photos, without compensation, to advertisers. That's not the intent of the policy changes, maintained Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom in a blog item titled He explained, "To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos." In the Instagram update released this week for both the versions of the software, a new filter has been added (Mayfair), as well as better integration with Facebook, some bug fixes, performance improvements, and language support expansion to 25 languages.
Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a storage package, called High Storage, that can offer fast access to large amounts of data. High Storage, an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) package, is designed to run data intensive analysis jobs, such as seismic analysis, log processing and data warehousing, according to the company. It is built on a parallel file system architecture that allows data to be moved on and off multiple disks at once, speeding throughput times. data warehouse service. that AWS has introduced. It joins other instant types customized for particular workloads, such as instances optimized for using GPUs (graphics processing units) or for HPC (high performance computing) jobs.
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Facebook has reinvented its Poke feature with a new standalone iOS app that lets you send messages, photos and videos to your friends on the social networking service that disappear within 10 seconds of someone opening them. While it might have been a while since any of your friends on Facebook have used the feature, now you can check out the app released Friday.
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Stardesigner Philippe Starck hatte im Auftrag von Steve Jobs ein Schiff der Superlative entworfen. Es steht in Holland - und bleibt bis auf Weiteres dort. Es gibt noch offene Rechnungen.
RIM ist mit einem blauen Auge durch das letzte Quartal vor dem Start seines neuen Hoffnungsträgers BlackBerry Z10 gekommen. Die Bilanz: 7 Millionen verkaufte Smartphones, 9 Millionen Dollar Gewinn.
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UPC Cablecom und Swisscom pushen digitales Fernsehen mit Gratis-Angeboten. Trotzdem bleibt uns das analoge TV noch Jahre erhalten. «Wir haben keine Eile mit der Abschaltung», sagt der UPC-Boss.
Apples Patent zum Zoomen mit zwei Fingern auf Touchscreens wurde in den USA für ungültig erklärt. Samsung liefert das Urteil neue Munition für seine Forderung nach einem neuen Verfahren.
Bewaffnet mit einem Samurai-Schwert steht er im Wald und zerstückelt angreifendes Obst. Doch das Abenteuer nimmt für den Fruit Ninja kein glückliches Ende.
Mark Zuckerbergs soziales Netzwerk wird zur Post-Alternative. Facebook testet die Möglichkeit, Meldungen für einen Dollar an beliebige Personen ausserhalb des eigenen Freundeskreises zu schicken.
Wer den beliebten Messenger auf seinem iPhone noch nicht installiert hat, kommt jetzt gratis zum Zuge. WhatsApp kann momentan frei heruntergeladen werden - bislang kostete die App einen Franken.
Die «Washington Post» hat errechnet, was uns der gesunde Menschenverstand längst sagt: In Ländern mit mehr Videospielern gibt es nicht mehr Amokläufe - im Gegenteil.
Steve Jobs würde sich im Grab umdrehen: Eine brasilianische Firma verkauft ein Android-Handy unter der Bezeichnung iPhone. Sie hat sich die Namensrechte offiziell gesichert.
14 Jahre lang trotzte Nokia allen Angriffsversuchen. Seit 1998 dominierten die Finnen den weltweiten Handy-Markt. Doch was Motorola, Apple oder Sony nie gelang, hat nun Samsung geschafft.
Videos mit pornografischen Inhalten sind auf dem Internet allgegenwärtig. Allein auf den zwei beliebtesten Porno-Seiten wurden in den letzten sechs Jahren 1,2 Millionen Jahre Pornos geschaut.
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