How to Sideload Android Apps – You’ve found that hot new app on the Android Market, and you can’t wait to click the Install button. But you’re getting the message that the app isn’t compatible with your device.
XSS Flaw discovered in Skype’s Shop, user accounts targeted – The independent security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili has detected a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities affecting shop.skype.com and api.skype.com. Upon successful exploitation the vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack cookies via required user interaction, leading to complete session hijacking and stealing of the account.
25 Killer Online Games You Can Play For Free – One of the biggest trends in gaming over the last half-decade has been the rise of the free to play (F2P) online business model. You might have heard it called “freemium,” or the pejorative “pay to win,” but whatever you call it, it’s here to stay.
How to Find Digital Copies of Your User Guides – Need the instruction guide for your laptop? Unless you’re one of those freakishly organized types, I’ll bet you have no idea where it is. Or even if you do, it probably involves a visit to the attic or basement, digging through boxes, and so on. What a hassle.
Dropbox Adds Automatic Photo Uploads – Dropbox wants to be your online photo repository with a new feature that automatically uploads full-size copies of your snaps to Dropbox whether you’re on a Mac or Windows PC, Android phone, or (coming soon) an iOS device.
Bogus “Scan from a HP OfficeJet” notifications lead to malware – Notifications about documents purportedly having been scanned and sent via a HP OfficeJet printer/scanner are targeting users again and trying to trick them into opening the attached HTML files. The campaign is widespread, and the subject lines and the content of the sent emails, as well as the name of the attached file, are constantly changed a little bit in order to try and bypass spam filters.
Google Promises Chrome Won’t Track – Google will add support for “Do Not Track” to its Chrome browser by the end of this year. The move is a reversal for Google, which has resisted supporting the technology that lets users opt out of the online tracking conducted by websites and advertisers. Google’s change of heart came as the White House this week pushed a privacy bill of rights and said it would introduce new online privacy legislation in Congress.
Pakistani Government Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System – According to a request for proposals from the government’s National ICT (Information and Communications and Technologies) R&D Fund, the government is struggling to stay on top of growing Internet and WEb use and is looking for a way to filter out undesirable Web sites.
10.8 million Android devices infected with malware – From 2010 to 2011, Android officially overtook Symbian as the most targeted mobile platform in the world by cyber criminals, according to NQ Mobile.
Many SMB mobile devices unmanaged, presenting security risk – More than half the Apple iOS mobile devices considered in a newly released study by mobile security vendor Mobilisafe were using outdated firmware.
Company News:
Intel distributes LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased? – LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite. But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like openSUSE and Ubuntu, LibreOffice has never had a major corporate backer on the Windows side… until now. Intel is now offering LibreOffice to Windows users via its AppUp application store. I wonder how Microsoft feels about this.
Apple Pushes Back Deadline for Sandboxing OS X Apps – Apple has pushed back the deadline for developers to include a sandbox in all of the apps on the Mac App Store, giving them a reprieve until June 1. The deadline was set for March 1, but Apple has changed it in order to give developers more time to work with the new requirements.
Dell acquires AppAssure, eyes backup software – The deal represents the first acquisition since Dell formed its software division under former CA CEO John Swainson.
Flickr adds Pinterest opt-out code to copyrighted photos – To prevent piracy, the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site adds the virtual pinboard’s new “do-not-pin” code to all Flickr pages with copyrighted or protected images, VentureBeat reports.
Webopedia Daily:
Self-service – A phrase that describes methods and processes a business uses to allow its customers to complete most steps in purchasing products or services on their own — such as shopping in a retail store or making a call to arrange a service. Self-service also extends to Web-based transactions and CRM (customer relationship management) whereby customers manage account information primarily on their own.
Off Topic (Sort of):
Only 8% of parents aware of Facebook bullying – Few parents are aware of Facebook bullying because their children are increasingly accessing social networks and other websites from devices that aren’t the easy-to-monitor family computer.
“Do Not Track” Has It Backwards – Online privacy is a hot issue, and the Do Not Track movement is gaining some momentum, but the whole thing is based on an upside down moral code.
Hackers target prison system with latest defacement – Hackers aligned with the Anonymous group of online activists defaced today the Web site of a major contractor operating detention facilities, calling the move a protest of the for-profit prison system, which, they said, benefits from stricter laws and more arrests.
Women leading Facebook defriending trend, study says – A Pew study suggests that finally, finally human beings–and especially women–have begun to prune their alleged friends on Facebook. Could there be rational, even venal, reasons for this?
Today’s Quote:
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
– John F. Kennedy
Today’s Free Downloads:
System Explorer Portable – System Explorer Portable is an application that lets you view useful information about programs that run on your system. Since this is a portable product, installation is not necessary. So, you can place System Explorer Portable on a removable device and run the executable file on any computer.
Spyware Terminator 3.0.0.61 – Spyware Terminator is a FREE, easy-to-use and effective spyware remover providing real-time protection against spyware, adware, keyloggers, trojan horses, browser hijackers and other malware threats.
