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- White House concerned over online piracy bills (AP)
- Facebook, Google, others face charges in India (AP)
- Social media widens scope of Nigeria fuel protests (AP)
- CES 2012: Makerbot Replicator prints large 3D objects in two colors (Yahoo! News)
- CES 2012: The top 7 phones at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (Yahoo! News)
- Paul McCartney Fans: Meet Your Nirvana (Mashable)
- White House casts doubt over anti-piracy legislation (Reuters)
- FTC expands Google antitrust probe: source (Reuters)
- Hulu Plus hits 1.5 million subscribers (Digital Trends)
- California Adopts New Energy Efficient Standards for Battery Chargers (ContributorNetwork)
- New Facebook phishing attack designed to steal credit card information (Digital Trends)
- Google unveils Android design guide (Digital Trends)
- Android-powered Smart TVs, HD phones and goggles wow at CES (Appolicious)
- U.S. trade judge: Motorola does not infringe Apple (Reuters)
- Stunning "Around the World" time-lapse video created with over 6,000 photos (Digital Trends)
- The best iOS accessories from CES 2012 (Appolicious)
- Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday (Reuters)
- Malware Attack Targets U.S. Government Agencies [VIDEO] (Mashable)
| White House concerned over online piracy bills (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST WASHINGTON – The Obama administration raised concerns Saturday about efforts in Congress that it said would undermine "the dynamic, innovative global Internet," urging lawmakers to approve measures this year that balance the need to fight piracy and counterfeiting against an open Internet. White House officials said in a blog post that it would not support pending legislation that "reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk" or undermines the global Internet, cautioning the measure could discourage innovation and startup businesses. "Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small," the White House said. The administration was responding to measures that would allow the Justice Department to target offshore websites — through Internet service providers — that offer illegal copies of music, movies and television shows online. The Senate is expected to consider similar legislation later this month. Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others have questioned the legislation, warning in a Nov. 15 letter that it would force new liabilities and mandates on law-abiding technology companies and require them to monitor websites. "We are concerned that these measures pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job-creation, as well as to our nation's cybersecurity," the letter stated. The White House said in the blog posted Saturday that it would work with Congress on legislation to help battle piracy and counterfeiting while defending free expression, privacy, security and innovation in the Internet. The post was signed by Victoria Espinel, the intellectual property enforcement coordinator at the Office of Management and Budget; Aneesh Chopra, the nation's chief technology officer; and Howard Schmidt, an Obama adviser on cybersecurity. ___ Online: ___ Follow Ken Thomas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/AP_Ken_Thomas |
| Facebook, Google, others face charges in India (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 01:38 AM PST NEW DELHI – For the first time, Indian prosecutors are taking Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other networking sites to court for refusing to remove material considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures. Government officials are upset about material insulting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and major religious figures. Some illustrations have shown Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam's holiest city. On Friday, the federal government told a New Delhi court that there was sufficient material to proceed against 21 social networking sites for offenses of "promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration," according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The cases, which PTI said name companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft, represent a new risk of doing business in the nation of more than 1 billion people, which is looking to technology to boost its economy and standard of living. The dispute highlights India's difficulty in balancing the Internet culture of freewheeling discourse with its homegrown religious and political sensitivities. Convictions could bring fines and up to five years' imprisonment, through prosecutors have named only the companies involved rather than any executives. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar on Friday asked India's External Affairs Ministry to serve summons to officials of foreign-based companies for court appearances March 13. In December, Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal said he had spoken repeatedly with officials from major Internet companies over the past three months and asked them to come up with a voluntary framework to keep offensive material off the Internet. He said that the companies told him there was nothing they could do. There was no immediate comment by the networking sites after Friday's court proceedings. However, Facebook said last month that it would remove content that "is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity." Google said in a December statement that it removes content that violates local law and its own standards. "But when content is legal and doesn't violate our policies, we won't remove it just because it's controversial, as we believe that people's differing views, so long as they're legal, should be respected and protected," Google said in a statement in December. Sibal had shown reporters Web illustrations showing Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions as well as a site showing pigs running through Islam's holy city of Mecca, a clear insult to Muslims. Sibal said the Internet companies had told him that they were applying U.S. standards to their sites, and he objected, saying that they needed to be sensitive to Indian sensibilities. |
| Social media widens scope of Nigeria fuel protests (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:30 AM PST LAGOS, Nigeria – As a nationwide strike and demonstrations unleash years of pent-up frustrations in Nigeria over its kleptocratic leaders, the rage burns even hotter across social media. Twitter users shared pictures of dead protesters while others broke down the oil-rich nation's 2012 budget figures, comparing funds allocated to the president and vice president's offices with the cost of living of the average Nigerian. Hackers have targeted government websites, while others criticize local news coverage of demonstrations in nation where journalists often accept bribes from those they cover. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Africa's most populous nation to protest the government's removal on Jan. 1 of a subsidy that had kept gasoline prices low for more than two decades. |
| CES 2012: Makerbot Replicator prints large 3D objects in two colors (Yahoo! News) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 05:09 PM PST |
| CES 2012: The top 7 phones at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (Yahoo! News) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 04:07 PM PST |
| Paul McCartney Fans: Meet Your Nirvana (Mashable) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 03:54 PM PST Get ready Paul McCartney fans: HP and McCartney's company have launched a cloud-based music sharing site for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in his digital library. "The digital library can store the estimated million (plus) items from McCartney's expansive personal collection, which spans more than five decades," says Scott Anderson, vice president of Customer Communications at HP. "The site is a vehicle for Paul McCartney fans to view new photographs, videos, news of what's happening, accounts of what happened, and backstage moments." [More from Mashable: Headphones Use Military Tech to Deliver Tunes Directly to Your Inner Ear] HP announced news of the site on Thursday, although the beta site has been up for a few weeks. The project was one year in the making. McCartney's company, MPL Communications, Ltd. which manages all of his music and has acquired numerous other labels over the years, teamed-up with HP to present the new site. [More from Mashable: 5 Alternatives to Consider After Spotify's Free Music Cutoff] Follow the link to the homepage and you'll be greeted with a large photo of McCartney performing and 13 tabs up at the top. There's a lot of cool features on this site, but first things first -- the music. Click on the Jukebox tab, which is placed all the way on the right side. It'll open a new window when you click on it. Here you can find all of McCartney's post-Beatles albums, listen to snippets of songs before you decide to buy an album and also listen to others' playlists. You'll also be able to see all the albums a song was recorded on, the first time and location a song was played in concert, the number of times a song was played in concert, the date and location of every concert where each song was played and the set list for each of the concerts -- if you're curious. Click on the "music" tab to view album covers, buy songs and read about past concerts. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "The Rude Studio" to create your own mix using McCartney songs. Post the mix on the site for other members to listen to and comment on. Premium members of the site can also live-stream music on Paul McCartney Radio and build and share playlists with a premium membership. HP said they are not aware of any advertising the music streaming service will have between songs (like Pandora). We reached out to HP to ask how much a premium membership costs or if it's free and are waiting for a response. But the site offers a lot more than music. You can also take a gander at his collection of artwork, books, his blog and check out a timeline of McCartney's personal photos. What do you think of Paul McCartney's new site? Will you join? This story originally published on Mashable here. |
| White House casts doubt over anti-piracy legislation (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:36 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials raised concerns on Saturday about online piracy legislation pending in Congress that Google and Facebook have decried as heavy-handed and Hollywood studios and music labels say is needed to save U.S. jobs. In a blog posting, three advisers to President Barack Obama said they believed the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and other bills could make businesses on the Internet vulnerable to litigation and harm legal activity and free speech. "Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small," said the officials, including White House cyber-security czar Howard Schmidt. The House of Representatives' SOPA bill aims to crack down on online sales of pirated American movies, music or other goods by forcing Internet companies to block access to foreign sites offering material that violates U.S. copyright laws. U.S. advertising networks could also be required to stop online ads and search engines would be barred from directly linking to websites found to be distributing pirated goods. The search engine Google has repeatedly said the bill goes too far and could hurt investment. Along with other Internet firms such as Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter and eBay, it has run advertisements in major newspapers urging Washington lawmakers to rethink their approach. STEALING JOBS Proponents of stricter piracy rules reacted strongly to Saturday's White House statement, which darkened prospects for legislation already expected to struggle to clear Congress in an election year. "It is not censorship to enforce the law against foreign thieves," said Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who chairs the House judiciary committee. He estimated intellectual property industries provide 19 million high-paying U.S. jobs and account for more than 60 percent of American exports. "Congress cannot stand by and do nothing while some of America's most profitable and productive industries are under attack," he said in a statement responding to the White House. Smith, in an interview with Reuters on Thursday, had vowed to press ahead with the bill in spite of criticism from Google and others and said he thought it would pass the House, where Republicans have a majority. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said it strongly supported the House legislation as well as the "Protect IP Act" in the Democrat-controlled Senate, calling both "narrowly targeted bills designed to target the worst of the worst offenders." "Given the broad consensus that this issue needs to be addressed, it is time to come together and adopt strong legislation that ends the ability of foreign criminals to prey on innocent consumers and steal American jobs," it said. The Motion Picture Association of America said while the White House statement raised significant points, "protecting American jobs is important too, particularly in these difficult economic times for our nation." And the Recording Industry Association of America, noting the United States is the world's top exporter of creative works, said it was intolerable for Internet companies to be allowed "to direct law-abiding consumers to unlawful and dangerous sites." "Hyperbole, hysteria and hypotheticals cannot change the fact that stealing is wrong, costing jobs and must be contained," it said. PUBLIC OPPOSITION Schmidt and the other advisers said the Obama administration was ready to work with lawmakers on a narrower, more targeted approach to online piracy to ensure that legitimate businesses - including start-up firms - would not be harmed. They also said online firms and Internet providers should adopt voluntary standards to clamp down on piracy, an approach Republicans in Congress and many companies have said lacks the teeth to have an impact. Saturday's statement did not make clear whether Obama would veto the piracy legislation if it reaches his desk, something the White House would likely spell out more formally ahead of any votes in Congress. Sherwin Siy, deputy legal director of the consumer rights group Public Knowledge, called on lawmakers to set aside the existing bills and get to work on a new "consensus bill" responding to the White House concerns. "The messages being sent by the public in opposition to this bill are finally getting through to Washington," Siy said. (Additional reporting by Diane Bartz, Jim Finkle and Tom Ferraro; Editing by John O'Callaghan and Todd Eastham) |
| FTC expands Google antitrust probe: source (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 03:56 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators looking at whether Google manipulates its search results to favor its own products have expanded the probe to include Google+, the search giant's new social networking tool, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday. Google+, which was launched in June, offers many of the capabilities available on Twitter and on Facebook. Google announced on Tuesday new features aimed at making search results more personalized. As part of the changes, photos and posts from Google+ will increasingly appear within the search results. A Google spokesman, however, said that the Federal Trade Commission had not asked about Google+ or indicated it was looking into the new social network as of this week. Google has been broadly accused of using its clout in the search market to shut out rivals, like travel search, by putting them low in search results. The source said that the FTC was roughly in the middle of what could be an extended probe. The Federal Trade Commission declined comment. Bloomberg earlier on Friday reported the expansion of the Google probe, citing two people familiar with the situation. The Electronic Privacy Information Center had asked the FTC this week to look at Google's decision to include information from Google+ in Google's search results. Twitter had also protested the change. Twitter's general counsel, Alex Macgillivray, a former Google executive, said in a Tweet on Tuesday that Google's changes "warped" Web searches and represented a "bad day for the Internet." Google said Friday that it believed including Google+ in search results was good for users. "We believe that our improvements to search will benefit consumers by better surfacing social content, and the great thing about the openness of the Internet is that if users don't like our service they can easily switch to another site," the company said in a statement. (Reporting By Diane Bartz; editing by Carol Bishopric) |
| Hulu Plus hits 1.5 million subscribers (Digital Trends) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:28 PM PST
Mentioned within an official Hulu blog post by CEO Jason Kilar, Hulu has gained over 1.5 million premium subscribers to the Hulu Plus service. This brings Hulu in line with the same amount of premium subscriber as DVR service TiVo according to SplatF's Dan Frommer, but still lags far behind the 25 million Netflix subscribers. Both Hulu Plus and Netflix's streaming-only package are priced at $7.99 per month for each service. During 2011, approximately one million people started subscribing to Hulu Plus, a service that officially launched at the end of 2010. The company also brought in about $420 million in revenue during 2011, an increase of approximately $150 million over the previous year. Kilar also stressed that the streaming video company grew the content library by 105 percent over 2011, an increase of 40 percent compared to growth during 2010. Major network shows mentioned in the blog post that were added during 2011 included "Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Misfits, Revenge, Terra Nova, Up All Night, New Girl, Una Familia Con Suerte, The Secret Circle, Hart of Dixie, Ringer and Community." Hulu officials also have plans to invest an additional half a billion dollars in content over 2012. Kilar believes that Hulu is a more attractive option to content providers as Hulu is able to pay approximately 50 percent more in licensing fees due to the joint premium subscription and advertising based business model. This article was originally posted on Digital Trends More from Digital Trends Netflix updates Xbox 360 app with Kinect control, still lacks 1080p streaming Verizon planning a Netflix competitor for non-FiOS markets The state of streaming, cable, and television: What can we expect in 2012? Survey: Nearly one tenth of Americans have “cut the cord” from premium TV |
| California Adopts New Energy Efficient Standards for Battery Chargers (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:06 AM PST Contribute content like this. Start here. According to the Los Angeles Times, California has decided to impose energy standards on battery chargers. The California Energy Commission voted 3-0 to require battery chargers, including cellphones, power tools and computers, to be more efficient. The changes will take effect in 2013 and impact around 170 million devices while saving an estimated $306 million a year in electricity bills. The state's new rules go into effect Feb. 1, 2013, for chargers used for consumer goods and will be extended to industrial chargers on Jan. 1, 2014. With California becoming the first state to enact these kinds of standards, here are some energy use statistics and facts on other ways energy efficiency standards have changed: * The share of residential electricity used by electronics and appliances has increased from 17 percent to 31 percent in the U.S. over the past 30 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. * Despite this increase in energy use from appliances and electronics, energy use per household decrease by 31 percent and overall household energy use also fell. * In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum asking the U.S. Department of Energy to increase efficiency standards for numerous household appliances, according to CBS News. * Obama noted higher efficiency standards would help motivate innovation, save consumers money, and also help conserve large amounts of energy. * The Environmental Protection Agency announced in early 2011 that televisions under the Energy Star rating must use 40 percent less energy than conventional models starting in September, reported USA Today. * Additionally, Energy Star TVs are expected to represent 70 percent of the market because of the demand from consumer for more efficient appliances and support from retailers. * Based on the findings of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Massachusetts is the most energy efficient state in the country, followed by California, New York and Oregon. * The ACEEE also concluded total budget for electricity efficiency programs totaled $4.5 billion in 2010 and 29 states have either adopted or made progress towards adopted the newest set of energy-saving building codes. * In 2009, the DOE announced $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would be available to states and territories to help promote the purchase of Energy Star appliances through consumer rebates. * Rebates differ from state to state and are also made available on a variety of different household appliances, including refrigerators, dishwashers, furnaces, clothes washers, and air conditioners. Rachel Bogart provides an in-depth look at current environmental issues and local Chicago news stories. As a college student from the Chicago suburbs pursuing two science degrees, she applies her knowledge and passion to both topics to garner further public awareness. |
| New Facebook phishing attack designed to steal credit card information (Digital Trends) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:37 PM PST
Discovered by Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby, a complex Facebook phishing scheme first obtains access to a user's Facebook account through standard phishing methods. Once the scam artist gains access to any account, they change the user picture to the Facebook logo or icon and alter the user's name to "Facebook Security" that contains specific ascii characters to replace a few select letters. While pretending to appear as an official Facebook account, the scam artist initiates a chat dialogue with all friends to that account and posts a link that states "Your Facebook account will be turned off because someone has reported you. Please do re-confirm your account security by: 'Insert Link' Thank you, The Facebook Team." Officials at Facebook are reported to be looking into this version of a phishing attack. Another recent attack pretends that Facebook has teamed up with Apple to give out free Apple products such as the iPad 2 or the iPhone 4S. Claiming to be Mark Zuckerberg within the Facebook message, Facebook users are asked to provide personal information as well as financial information to cover a shipping and handling fee for the free prize. This article was originally posted on Digital Trends More from Digital Trends Ping and Twitter officially integrate Foursquare wraps new Radar feature around iOS 5 Twitter who? iOS 5 connects with multiple social platforms, including Facebook |
| Google unveils Android design guide (Digital Trends) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 12:25 PM PST
Fans of Google's Android platform like to extoll how "open" the Android software development world is, especially in comparison to the "curated" experience offered by Apple in its iTunes App Store. However, as many Android users can attest, that openness can generate a huge variation in the look, feel, behavior, and interfaces of Android applications. One Android app might handle content navigation a particular way, but another app may use the very same icons—and even icon placement—for entirely different purposes. Similarly, a gesture that does one thing in a broad range of Android apps might do something totally different in another app—perhaps because the developer was feeling "creative" or "innovative." Google won't pull apps from the Android market just because they're fugly and do things weirdly—in fact, Apple won't either—but even Google recognizes the value of a consistent interface and design across the Android platform, particularly as it extends itself to embrace not just smartphones but tablets and even television. To that end, Google has unveiled it's first design guide for Android apps—and it was created by Matias Duarte, formerly the lead designer at Palm and (before that) Helio and Danger. The design guide is intended to enable developers targeting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to offer a consistent set of elements and behaviors that will enable users to apply skills they've picked up elsewhere in Android and in other apps to their own app. To be sure, there will always be new apps that have to push interface in new ways, but things like bringing up a menu, selecting text, and presenting alerts ought to be consistent across nearly every app. The design guide goes into handling universal Android 4 elements like the action bar and gestures, along with multi-pane layouts, content navigation, colors, and even typography. The guide goes into design proportions that will help apps and their elements feel Android-native, and even makes suggestions for writing style. (Hint: be brief and conversational.) The guide also warns people against borrowing icons and behaviors from things like iOS and Windows Phone—it may be tempting to emulate behaviors of other mobile operating systems, but Android has its own native ways of doing the same things that will help users have a more consistent experience. The design guide only applies to Android 4.0, and is intended to help developers look at Ice Cream Sandwich as a fresh start on the Android platform. The problem, of course, is that Android's first distribution was all the way back in 2007, and millions of Android devices are already in customers' hands. (And, despite a wave of ICS devices and upgrades on the way, right now only one phone is available with ICS, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.) As much as a design guide might be useful in the Android 4.0 world, it's not going to be much help to developers who still have to cope with the realities of the Android marketplace: millions of people running Android 3.x HoneyComb, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Android 2.2 Froyo, and even Android 2.1 and 2.0 (Eclair). Nonetheless, it does back up Google's repeated assertions that it does care about design and consistency in Android—and that it's trying to provide necessary information to developers so their apps can be good Android citizens. This article was originally posted on Digital Trends More from Digital Trends Swearport Android app helps make you an international potty mouth Digital Trends Best of 2011 Awards: Cell Phones |
| Android-powered Smart TVs, HD phones and goggles wow at CES (Appolicious) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:00 AM PST |
| U.S. trade judge: Motorola does not infringe Apple (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 03:39 PM PST (Reuters) – Motorola Mobility Inc did not violate Apple's patented technology in making its Droid, Cliq, BackFlip and other smartphones, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a preliminary decision issued on Friday. The full ITC will issue a final decision in March. Apple had filed a complaint with the ITC in October of 2010, accusing Motorola Mobility of infringing three Apple patents to make its smartphones. Two of the patents have to do with how the devices accept manual input when users type or handwrite on them while the third relates to ways for consumers to add applications without jumping through hoops like rebooting the smartphone. The complaint, like many patent battles focusing on smartphones, is part of a larger fight between Apple and Google Inc's fast-growing Android operating system, which Motorola uses. The ITC is a popular venue for patent disputes because it can order devices made with infringing technology barred from importation. Google has reached an agreement to buy Motorola Mobility, and is seeking the antitrust approval needed to close the sale. (Reporting By Diane Bartz; Editing by Tim Dobbyn) |
| Stunning "Around the World" time-lapse video created with over 6,000 photos (Digital Trends) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 12:30 PM PST
Racking up over one million views on YouTube in approximately two weeks, photographer Kien Lam created a time-lapse video (embedded below) comprised of 6,237 photographs documenting his year long trip around the world. Lam quit his job as a securities finance analyst at Blackrock during August 2010 and decided to spend 2011 visiting 17 different countries over a period of 343 days. To start the journey, Lam packed up his Panasonic Lumix GF-1 and purchased a one-way plane ticket to London, England. Lam intended to capture time-lapse photographs at various locations in each of the 17 countries that he visited. While his server is occasionally buckling under the stress of site visitors that are likely dreaming about quitting their own job for a trip around the world, a detailed account of his journey can be found on Lam's personal site. One of the most popular videos detailing someone who quit their job to take a trip around the world features former video game designer Matt Harding dancing at various locations around the globe. Harding's original dancing video has been viewed over 40 million times on YouTube and he has appeared on television shows such as The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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| The best iOS accessories from CES 2012 (Appolicious) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 06:00 AM PST |
| Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:12 AM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software. "This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough posted via Twitter. In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers. (Reporting By Frank Jack Daniel) |
| Malware Attack Targets U.S. Government Agencies [VIDEO] (Mashable) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 04:31 AM PST [brightcove video="1389085133001" /] Sykipot, malware believed to originate in China, has been used to target smart cards in the Pentagon and other government agencies. According to security researcher AlienVault, a new variant of Sykipot is targeting the cards government employees use to access secure networks and servers. [More from Mashable: Apple Toys With 3D iPhone Interface [VIDEO]] "The attackers use a spear phishing campaign to get their targets to open a PDF attachment which then deposits the Sykipot malware onto their machine (the attackers here took advantage of a zero-day exploit in Adobe)," according to AlienVault. Check out the video above to learn more. [More from Mashable: How a Professional Pain Point Led to a Disruptive Business Idea [VIDEO]] Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, rubenhi This story originally published on Mashable here. |
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