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.
Europeans eager to be forgotten by Google
In early May, The European Court of Justice ruled that Google had to comply with a Spanish man’s request to have search results related to his name and a foreclosure on a property removed. Since the man had resolved the foreclosure matter and thus made his case that it should be forgotten.
Good news, Windows XP support goes on with simple hack, the bad news is …
It remains questionable whether a recently discovered hack for Windows XP could still take effect in deploying security patches, but one thing that is sure is that a security researcher revealed with validity a method of extending life-support for the now dead operating system until 2019.
Open-source encryption project TrueCrypt is dead
It would be understandable to learn about the closure of a software application that is old enough to retire along with the recently shuttered Windows XP. But to hear the anonymous managers of an encryption project say they are shutting down the whole program because of Microsoft’s implacable end-of-life-support for its twelve-year old operating system […]
