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Apple found guilty of copyright breach in China
Dec 31, 2012 By ClareA court in Beijing ruled that the IT company Apple was responsible for applications which appeared in the App Store which contained unlicensed content. The content was the property of 8 Chinese writers who banded together forming a society and 2 separate companies in an attempt to get...
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Microsoft Study suggests insecure factory units are building PCs with malware already installed
Sep 13, 2012 By ClareMicrosoft an IT company has stated that they have found brand new PCs coming out of factories to be carrying malware. This is a new development as cyber criminals attempt to infect user PCs before they even get onto retail shelves. Factories producing infected PCs have been located in several...
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US man jailed after admitting creating a botnet network thousands strong
Sep 7, 2012 By ClareJoshua Schichtel pleaded guilty to one count of selling access to 72,000 machines which formed part of a much larger botnet which he controlled. Botnets are PCs which are enrolled into networks which are then used to help send out junk mail messages. The PCs which were controlled by Schichtel...
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HP job cuts start early
Aug 3, 2012 By ClareThe HP staff ‘cull’ which has been announced to the government's Department for Business Innovation & Skills a fortnight ago has been revealed to be separate from the global program of staff redundancies which were announced earlier. 300 jobs are going to be cut in what they are calling a...
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Tesco comes under criticism as company reveals sending unencrypted passwords to account holders
Jul 31, 2012 By ClareTesco has announced that although passwords are held internally in an encrypted form they are sent out to account holders who have lost or forgotten their passwords in plain text. This fact has been known since 2007 when it was first disclosed but to date Tesco has not acted to create a better...
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Mac operating system Mountain Lion has been most successful OS X release in Apple history
Jul 30, 2012 By ClareThe Mac operating system (OS) X Mountain Lion has been available for since the 25 th July and has so far been downloaded over 3 million times. This makes it the most successful OS X released by Apple to date. OS X Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of OS X from IT company Apple. ...
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Australia electronics dealer Ruslan Kogan creates IE7 tax for customers
Jun 14, 2012 By ClareWhile rendering a new website for a site relaunch, Mr Kogan- the Chief Executive at Ruslan Kogan noted that the time it took for his team to create a website which would look normal on IE7 was equal to that in which the Chrome, Safari and Firefox pages were designed. To create the IE7 design,...
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Flame malware confirmed as most sophisticated cyber attack to date
May 28, 2012 By ClareSecurity experts have discovered a new data-stealing malware dubbed "Flame" which, they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign. IT company Kaspersky located the malware and confirmed it has...
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Business streamlining by HP will cost 27,000 their jobs in less than 2 years
May 24, 2012 By ClareThe decision by Hewlett- Packard (HP) an IT company which specialises in personal computers and other IT products to cut down its current workforce by around 8% by 2014 has come from within the ‘productivity initiative’. There are 20,000 employees of HP in the UK part of 350,000...
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The benefits of using SSL certificates
May 16, 2012 By ClareSSL Certificates, (secure socket layer) security is a must have for any online ecommerce website or any site which that wishes to accept payments. SSL certificates allow you to gain a competitive advantage over other sites by appearing more trusted and more legitimate and are important for IT...
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