The loophole exploits a feature of HTML 5 which defines how websites are made and what they can do. Developer Feross Aboukhadijeh found the bug and set up a demo page that fills visitors’ hard drives with pictures of cartoon cats. In one demo, Mr Aboukhadijeh managed to dump one gigabyte of data every 16 […]
Hacker collective Anonymous has suffered an embarrassing breach, as one of its popular Twitter feeds is taken over by rival hacktivists. Little-known group Rustle League said it had hacked the @Anon_Central account which has 160,000 followers. It follows some high-profile Twitter hacks in recent days – including accounts for Burger King, Jeep and BBC Top […]
Einhorn made headlines last week by suing Apple and lambasting the company for hoarding billions in cash. Einhorn’s hedge fund, Greenlight Capital, wants Apple to give some of its $137 billion cash hoard back to shareholders in the form of preferred stock. At a Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) conference in San Francisco moderated by Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Cook shot […]
Post-IPO life hasn’t been kind to Facebook and other newly public social startups, whose plummeting shares have left investors downtrodden. But LinkedIn, the first of the big social network upstarts to go public, continues to prove it can be a money-making machine. Wall Street analysts had high expectations for LinkedIn’s (LNKD) fourth quarter, and the company still beat […]
Thousands of computers running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system were unable to connect to the internet after installing an anti-virus update. Users said they were also unable to access their internal company networks. Russian IT security company Kaspersky Labs told users to disable its anti-virus software or roll back the update. Two hours later it issued […]
n a partnership involving private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Microsoft (MSFT,Fortune 500) and company founder Michael Dell, the group hopes to buy the computer maker for $13.65 a share. That’s slightly higher than where the stock closed Monday but is 25% higher than where Dell was trading before rumors of the buyout began to surface in mid-January. […]
A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their accounts compromised in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches. Twitter’s information security director Bob Lord said about 250,000 users’ passwords had been stolen, as well as usernames, emails and other data. Affected users have had passwords invalidated and have been sent […]
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has unveiled a bespoke Windows-run smartphone exclusively available in Africa. The customised device is being launched today in partnership with Microsoft as part of its new 4Afrika Initiative. This includes plans to develop cheap wireless broadband in the Rift Valley in Kenya and help local people in South Africa and Egypt develop Windows […]
New details of Google’s forthcoming augmented reality headset have emerged in documents published by a US regulator. A test report describes video playing on the device alongside audio running to a “vibrating element”. The description tallies with a patent filing suggesting it plays sound via “bone-conduction” tech rather than earbuds. Developers are due to receive a test […]
Open source software projects may not typically have the marketing budgets necessary to match launch events like the one Microsoft just held for Office 2013, but that doesn’t mean their products are any less valuable. Canonical surely came close in terms of hype with its Ubuntu phone announcement just after New Year’s, but this week Black Duck Software brought […]
