Alan Turing Receives Royal Pardon

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Computing pioneer Alan Turing has received a posthumous pardon from the Queen, more than 60 years after his conviction for “gross indecency” and his subsequent suicide. The Independent reports that the pardon was given under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, typically used to nullify the conviction of an innocent person. Alan Turing is best known […]


CryptoLocker Ransomware on Rampage

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An increasing number of infections have been reported from the relatively new CryptoLocker malware, which encrypts files and holds them for ransom. Unlike previous ransomware, CryptoLocker makes its targeted files legitimately unrecoverable and also appears to honour ransoms by decrypting the files when paid (at least for now). Naked Security has a pretty accessible overview […]


Students Hack School-Issued iPads

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A Los Angeles high school discovered the danger in freely issuing mobile devices when the security on hundreds of its iPads were promptly hacked. Ars Technica reports that the students exploited the inherently weak restrictions on modifying their ActiveSync profiles, allowing them to quickly and easily unlock the devices for general use.


US Airways Accounts Hacked

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US Airways has announced that 7700 of its frequent flier user accounts have been hacked. Skift reports that mileage credits were taken from a small number of accounts, all of the compromised accounts have been disabled, and that police are investigating.


BitTorrent Primer

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A lot of people are unclear on what, exactly, BitTorrent is and what it’s for. This article from MakeUseOf gives a pretty good overview of BitTorrent and its purposes.


Adobe Drops Creative Suite, Moves to Creative Cloud

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Adobe has announced it will discontinue its Creative Suite product, and will instead concentrate on Creative Cloud. A number of outlets, including TNW, CNET, and Slashot, are reporting that Adobe will be switching to the subscription-only service, with no further versions of Creative Suite planned after the current CS6.


Free Mobile Chat Apps Slowly Overcoming SMS

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Highly popular mobile chat apps for smartphones are slowly replacing traditional SMS text messaging. The Next Web describes the results of Informa research suggesting that while SMS messaging is by no means dying (usage continues to grow), it is being replaced by free mobile messaging apps. Eventually, the assumption is that SMS will disappear altogether, […]


Dropbox Rebrands its Enterprise Product

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Dropbox has announced that it is rebranding Dropbox for Teams, its product aimed at large enterprise, as Dropbox for Business. The idea, according to TNW, is to get the message out that this Dropbox product is meant to handle hundreds or thousands of employees rather than the ten or so that the word “team” implies. […]


MSN Messenger Shutdown Inspires Malicious Fakes

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Microsoft’s announcement that it intends to shut down its long-running MSN Messenger service and replace it with Skype has inspired enterprising malware developers to start offering fake installers. The original announcement came late last year, but only recently as the cut-off date of April 8 (April 30 in Brazil) approaches have these attacks appeared in […]


Microsoft Azure Outage Caused by Expired SSL Certificate

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A worldwide outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud storage service was caused by the expiry of an SSL certificate on Friday, according to reports. This comes on the heels of a week-long outage of an SQL server component of the Azure service. The news was reported in a number of outlets, including Slashdot, which cites […]