Developers were quite surprised that this year’s Apple World Wide Developer conference did not take the wraps off a new smartphone, say the long-awaited iPhone 6, which has been circulating in the rumor mill lately, or an iPad enhancement. Instead, Apple unveiled a refreshment for its exclusive operating system for mobile devices.
Pirated version of Card Recon sold to cybercriminals
When retail company Target was targeted by cybercriminals in December of last year through point of sale service attacks, there was growing anxiety over the security layer being put on customer data of other retail stores.
iTunes App Store takes the lead with 75 billion downloads and 1.2 million apps
In San Francisco, Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference happened this morning. Among many other announcements the company announced that the iOS App Store has now reached 1.2 million applications.
GPRS roaming network exposed to Internet-based attacks
In 2013, alongside reports on the National Security Agency’s spying program that had raised the hackles of privacy advocates, the British intelligence agency GHCQ was also discovered to have breached the routers and mobile roaming traffic of Belgacom, a Belgian telecommunications service provider.
Pirate Bay Co-Founder finally Arrested after several years
In the latest news coming out of Southern Sweden it is confirmed that Peter Sunde, the co-founder of the bit torrent file-sharing website Pirate Bay, has been arrested. He was arrested after being several years on the run following an earlier conviction for Pirate Bay-related copyright violations, however during this time he remained active inside […]
Nokia acquires mapping startup business Desti
A few weeks after Nokia divested its mobile device business to Microsoft, the Finnish company acquired mapping startup company Desti for an undisclosed amount in a move that many consider as an initiative to build up what has been left to Nokia, its HERE mapping technology.
