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As users become more vigilant in protecting themselves and their devices against malware, hackers are becoming more creative in how they spread their infected files. According to a report by security firm Check Point, the latest development on malware propagation is...

New Deloitte report says CIOs see customers as their main priority Business performance is no longer the key priority for FTSE 250 organizations, a new survey by Deloitte suggests. Out of 1,200 technology leaders across 48 countries, which were polled for the...

It's a way of producing safe energy from a normally dangerous source. Nuclear waste is normally a major environmental headache, but it could soon be a source of clean energy. Scientists have developed a method of turning that waste into batteries using diamond. If you...

iPhone users be careful opening unknown videos. A five-second video is making its way around the internet, and when opened on iPhones causes the phone to lock up and reset. At first, everything seems fine, and when you start playing the video on an iPhone it appears...

Consider it the ultimate flyer and coupon app. With Flipp, you can “flip” through the flyers of all your local stores to find the latest deals.  Electronics retailers, clothing stores, home improvement centers, department stores, toy stores and supermarkets –  Flipp...

An electromagnetic pulse (commonly abbreviated as EMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation. Nuclear explosions create a characteristic pulse of electromagnetic radiation called a nuclear EMP or NEMP. In real life, however, EMPs are a potential threat to national...

A military expert explains the threat and its likelihood Electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs, usually show up in pop culture as a temporary way to disable electronics. In Ocean's Eleven, one knocks out a casino's power supply during a heist. In the Matrix movies, an EMP...

With online holiday shopping underway, here's a new tool that will help you stay anonymous while browsing and buying. Better safe than sorry, as the saying goes. And why not do it without really having to think about it. Many modern smartphone web browsers have...

On the surface, Google Photos has a simple mission: to store your pictures. Specifically, Google says it wants the service to be a home for all of your photos, and today that mission expanded to encompass the old photos you took on a point-and-shoot back in the '90s....

The number of financial phishing attacks is expected to rise during the holiday season which starts unofficially on Black Friday and continues through Christmas. Kaspersky Lab data shows that over the last few years the holiday period has had an increase in phishing...

If you're doing your holiday shopping via app, use caution. A growing number of fraudulent shopping apps are showing up in Apple's App Store. Like many online scams, these apps attempt to mimic the real thing in an attempt to get you to enter your credit card data or...

Employees are changing their work habits to avoid extra data costs.   Employees are under ‘mounting’ pressure, to use their personal devices for work, even when this is not required by their employer. This is according to a new report by Sytonic, a mobile platform and...