Is Dropbox Becoming A Risky Prospect For Consumers?: Kills E-mail App Mailbox
The biggest problem, despite the enormous advantages, with the cloud as a solution for businesses and consumers was always the possibility that services would simply go out of business or adjust their strategy in ways that left users disadvantaged. Part of that problem came true this week as Dropbox announced that their e-mail app, Mailbox, was to be shuttered. Inc reported that this was in stark contrast to their original promise,...
Flash Finally Set To Die: Adobe Recommends Developers Switch To Alternatives
Business owners with Flash on their sites have long been crippled by Apple’s decision to make the technology incompatible with all of their iOS devices (iPhones and iPads). This meant that surfers on those devices received a suboptimal at best, or completely unusable experience when visiting those sites. With Adobe now telling developers to stop using Flash completely, as reported by The Verge and start switching to alternatives...
Spycup: Freaky Cup That Records Your Friends? Or A Revolution For Citizen Journalism?
If you’d asked me earlier today if I’d like to turn my phone into a hidden spy device, concealed James Bond style in a cup, I’d have thought you were mad. Who would want to do that? But that was before I came across Spycup. Perhaps in a stroke of marketing genius they are presenting the tool as a revolution in citizen journalism at the same time as having a name that suggests altogether different applications. One...
Yahoo! Steps Up The War On Ad Blockers
Yahoo! might not be the king of search anymore but their content and advertising businesses and overseas subsidiaries still drive revenue that makes the internet giant over $4 billion in revenue and their news and e-mail platforms continue to drive millions of visitors and therefore ad revenue. Unfortunately for many publishers, who depend on traditional banner and text ads, such as Yahoo!, ad blocking has become increasingly...
Is Your New Credit Card Chip as Secure as You Think?
In a growing trend, more and more credit card manufacture are including new EMV chips in their plastic to help stop fraud during in-store purchases. In theory, the EMV chip in your new credit card uses a dynamically generated data code for each purchase, meaning that an attacker can’t simply use the same code over and over for future purchases. Unfortunately, while security is now improving for in-store purchases a recent study by ACI...
Ransom Demands Rock Email Providers Zoho, ProtonMail Hushmail, FastMail And More
The International Business Times reported this week that a series of email service providers had experienced outages and random demands on the back of a concerted DDoS attack by a group called Armada Collective. It is reported that the attacks follow on from a series of attacks on a wide range of institutions, including some Thai banks. Hushmail is reported to have paid a ransom demand of 20 bitcoin (about $6,000) but the attacks were...
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