Archive for January 2015
January 1, 2015
· Fraud is considered in the collapse of Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange
January 2, 2015
· Two members of the Lizard Squad jailed
· Sony offering discount after DDoS attack shuts them down at Christmas
January 3, 2015
· FCC may vote on net neutrality next week
· Bing and Yahoo go dark Friday night
January 4, 2015
· North Korea scolds Obama over sanctions
January 5, 2015
· Google announces GoogleCast to stream audio (Video)
· Torrent download of âThe Interviewâ leads to banking Trojan
January 6, 2015
· Apple unlocking the iPhone
· Microsoft releases Office docs for Android
January 7, 2015
· Banking malware targeting German speakers
· NASA finds habitable planets
January 8, 2015
· Apple sales skyrocket
January 9, 2015
· CryptoWall evolves to avoid detection
January 10, 2015
· Anonymous declares war over Charlie Hebdo attack
· Bitstamp shuttered for five days after attack
January 12, 2015
· Silk Road kingpin faces 20 years
· Android smut usage the highest
· ISIS claims U.S. Central Command Twitter hack (Video)
January 13, 2015
· Win7 converts to extended support
· None too bright iPhone smuggler
January 14, 2015
· Three students fall victim to sextortionists
· Google Translate gets smarter
January 15, 2015
· Google squashes malvertising attack
· Blackberry and Samsung deny acquisition talks
January 16, 2015
· Google discloses another zero-day flaw
· Teen arrested in U.K. over hack of Sony and Xbox
· Mt.Gox kingpin accused of being Silk Road Dread Pirate Roberts
January 17, 2015
· Hackers for hire
January 18, 2015
· Installing computer programs on an individual's computer without consent is now illegal in Canada
January 19, 2015
· Thieves tunnel into iPhone warehouse
· My Verizon FiOS mobile app flaw discovered, promptly fixed
January 20, 2015
· Lizard Squad hackers hacked
· WhatsApp Plus for Android is not associated with official WhatsApp service
· False positives costly to businesses
· Six things to watch out for at Microsoft event Wednesday
· The #1 Password For 2014? 123456
January 21, 2015
· Windows 10: The Next Chapter Live Today
· Official WhatsApp imposes 24 hour ban on WhatsApp Plus users
· Facebook to show fewer hoaxes in news feed
· Edward Snowden: iPhone has special tracking software
· Five points that President Obama alluded to in his State of the Union speech that refer to the tech world.
· Healthcare.gov shares info with third party tracking sites
· Microsoft is offering free upgrade to Windows 10 to those running Win8.1, Windows Phone and Win7
January 22, 2015
· Minecraft usernames and passwords leak online (Updated)
· Round up of Windows 10 features (Video)
· Attorney sold Facebook shares that didnât exist; gets 46 months in jail
· Latest AV software testing results
· Password sharing considered a felony under proposed hacking laws
January 23, 2015
· Hacker gets five years and fine of $890,000 (Video)
· Ransomware leads teen to hanging
January 24, 2015
· Microsoft releases Windows 10 ISO
· Microsoft feedback forum open for Windows 10 testers
January 26, 2015
· How hackers infiltrate a system and remain undetected
· Lizard Squad hits Malaysia Airlines website
· Apple brings back free iTunes
January 27, 2015
· Facebook outage an internal glitch, not a hack by Lizard Squad
· Twitter adds Group Direct Messages and Video Editing (Video)
· New ransomware spreading by emails
January 28, 2015
· YouTube to use HTML5 in place of Flash as default playback
· Hackers got paid off by Silk Road to thwart attacks
· AV-Comparatives has announced its Product of the Year award
January 29, 2015
· Comcast does it again: Changes customer name to A**hole
· Silk Road kingpin hears drug dealers testimony
January 30, 2015
· Porn site serves up Trojan (Duh)
· FCC wants faster broadband speeds
January 31, 2015
· Facebook trojan masked as Flash update infects 110,000 users within 2 days
· Google expands bug bounty program
