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Images Are The New Virus-Carriers

At Black Hat Europe, Saumil Shah presented a method of hiding malware in normal JPG images

At the Black Hat hacker fair in Amsterdam, security researcher Saumil Shah demonstrated how one can hide an exploit code in an image. This makes it possible to circumvent all security warnings issued by browsers. To pull this off, Shah used steganography, which is a...

Mozilla drops plugins from Firefox

Mozilla stop support plugin

Mozilla announced that it will soon stop supporting all plugins for its Firefox browser, one of the best browser – except, somewhat surprisingly, Adobe’s Flash. While that plugin is one of the most troublesome for security and stability, it’s still one of the most widely...

Kaspersky Suffers Attack From Hackers

Kaspersky labs hacked

Kaspersky, maker of anti-virus software, has recently been attacked by cyber-criminals. The people behind the attack are the creators of the Duqu malware, which affected industrial facilities throughout the world in 2011. Dubbed Duqu 2.0, the new virus is a highly complex malware – and...

LINE Release Extension for Google Chrome

Line Extension for Chrome

To make chatting with friends easier, on any platform – LINE announces a new extension for Google Chrome, which is compatible with Chrome, Windows, Mac, and Linux OSes. Unlike the existing PC versions of LINE for Windows and Mac OS X, users of the Google...

Spotify Says Sorry For Policy

Spotify says sorry

The head of Spotify, Daniel Ek (in case you were wondering), has said sorry after users became angry over the service’s updated privacy policy. Some users, including influential Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, had gone as far as saying that they were leaving the service...

KDE rivals Ubuntu with Plasma Mobile

The KDE Project has unveiled its entry into the smartphone market, releasing details of a free software platform dubbed Plasma Mobile that is currently in the prototype stage. Following the lead of companies including Mozilla and Canonical, KDE’s Plasma Mobile is designed as an alternative...

Ofcom to networks: make switching easier

Ofcom

Ofcom wants to make it easier for phone customers to switch mobile networks. Currently users who wish to switch and keep their number must obtain a PAC (Porting Authorisation Code) from their existing provider, then give it to their new network. Ofcom says this makes...

Industry giants partner for Open Container Project

DockerCon 2015

A wide spectrum of technology companies have announced a partnership in order to create an open container format and runtime, using technology that has been donated by container specialist Docker. A group of companies including Amazon, Cisco, CoreOS, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, VMware...

Canonical launches Fan network system

Fan ubuntu linux

Canonical has launched a new networking system designed to vastly increase the number of IP addresses available to containers without adding complexity, dubbed the Fan. “It’s called that because you can picture it as a fan behind each of your existing IP addresses, with another...