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Indians choose net privacy over $1 million
The average connected Indian can’t live without the internet for more than 24 hours, says a new survey commissioned by Norton, the online security software company. Of those surveyed, 83 percent said that 24 hours was too long to be offline and half said they feel ‘withdrawal’ after just three #India #internet use #online life #privacy #Survey #TechBuzz
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Murdoch’s new problem: Accused of hacking Sky TV peers
Rupert Murdoch is facing a new threat to his global media empire, as a BBC documentary has alleged a Murdoch-owned company hired hackers to break the security, and thus the business, of his pay TV competitors in the UK and Australia. BBC’s flagship investigative journalism programme, Panorama, has revealed what #Hacking #ITV Digital #News Corporation #Pay TV #Sky Digital #ThatsJustWrong
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Cheers Sibal! UK politicians also want to censor Google
London: A cross-party group of British politicians, including MPs and peers of the House of Lords, has concluded that instead of new privacy laws, the UK should force internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook to censor content in order to protect privacy. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions #Censorship #Google #HowThisWorks #privacy #social media
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Why demanding your FB password is a rights violation
Companies, universities and government agencies in the USA have been asking job candidates for either their social media passwords or are asking them to friend the potential employer to facilitate a thorough vetting of the applicant’s private life prior to offering them a job. Some universities are asking #Ethics #facebook #InsecureNet #Password #privacy #social networks #Web 2.0
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Wind energy might become a REAL option for India
A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy national lab in California, has found that India has a much greater potential for wind energy than previously thought. The report estimates that there might be 20 to 30 times more on-shore wind energy than the #Energy #India #Renewable energy #What'sNext #Wind power
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Overheating iPads are a storm in a teacup
Reports that the iPad 3 heats up much more than its predecessor have sections of the press in a tizz. Consumer Reports said that their tests saw the iPad 3 hit 116F/47C when playing games, which was up to 13 degrees Fahrenheit, or about eight degrees Celsius, hotter #Apple #iPad 3 #overheating #ToTheContrary
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Android ad networks found accessing users’ private data
Researchers at the University of North Carolina have discovered that Android apps that run ads could be invading users' privacy without their, or the app developers', knowledge. The ad networks that many developers rely on to earn money exploit permissions granted to the app, often gathering information that users #Android #apps #HowThisWorks #Malware #Security
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If your last name is Chutia, your FB a/c might be blocked!
The All Assam Chutia Students’ Union (Aacsu) has accused Facebook of blocking the accounts of thousands of people with the name Chutia saying that the social network has confused it with Hindi slang, reports the Times of India. Chutia, pronounced Sutiya, is the name of a community in Assam. #facebook #HowThisWorks #Salman Rushdie #World Wide Web
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Experts ask for online help to crack lethal Duqu virus
Researchers investigating Duqu, the computer worm thought to be related to the infamous Stuxnet, have run into an enigma.Says Wired: The mystery concerns an essential component of the malware that communicates with command-and-control servers and has the ability to download additional payload modules and execute them on infected machines. Much #Duqu #InsecureNet #Malware #Stuxnet #Windows
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Android users beware: Hackers have it real easy on your phone
It hasn’t been a good week for Android. At the RSA conference last week, security start-up CrowdStrike demonstrated how a phone running Google’s Android could be completely compromised simply by clicking a bad web link. CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz showed the audience how they could “could record phone calls, #Android #InsecureNet #Security #smartphones