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Hong Kong Exchange News Site Blocked By DDoS
A distributed denial of service attack hit the HK Stock Exchange News Web but trading was relatively unaffected
Lush Hack Leads ICO To Warn Other Online Retailers
Lush Cosmetics avoided an ICO fine for a recent security breach but had to pay for an expensive redesign
Citrix Buys RingCube For Virtual Desktop Technologies
RingCube controls security and file access to authorise various mobile devices to access a VDI system
Amazon Sidesteps Apple With Kindle Browser Launch
Amazon has bypassed Apple's strict app policies after allowing Kindle e-books to be read in a browser
RIM Blog Hacked After Police Offered BBM Access
As London burned, Team Poison hacked RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog to protest against company helping police
Google Updates Google+ Mobile Features
Google+ has been updated with more Huddle messaging controls and support for Apple iPad and iPod Touch
Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds
Lightning strikes in Dublin disabled two major data centres and knocked back-up power supplies offline
Apple Surprises Developers With iOS 5 Beta Update
Apple surprised developers this weekend after it issued an update to its iOS 5 platform beta
AMD Offers Up Fusion SDK For Developers
AMD is offering developers a SDK in order to the exploit the capabilities of its Fusion processors
Malware Wave Infects Six Million e-Commerce Pages
A malware infection, based on known flaws, has hit millions of e-commerce Web pages in the past two weeks
Facial Recognition, Social Networks Threaten Privacy
At Black Hat, a researcher showed how facial-recognition could link passers-by to Facebook profiles
Microsoft Researcher Slams Google+ Real-Name Policy
Google+'s real-name policy is an abuse of power and harms privacy, according to Microsoft researcher Dana Boyd
Rackspace Adds Critical Sites Support For Enterprises
Mission critical Web applications can be supported and monitored 24x7 under Rackspace's latest service
Dell Joins Hadoop Crowd With Cloudera Partnership
Dell will add PowerEdge C servers, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software
Enterprise Plus For Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Web Services launches VPC globally and announces Direct Connect and identity management
DoJ Wades In To Android Patent Attacks
Microsoft and Apple are being questioned about Nortel's former wireless patents and Android-bashing
Intel’s $30m Cloud And Embedded Research Centres
Intel is opening two new university research centres that will focus on cloud and embedded computing
HP Tweaks TouchPad Bugs, Security And More
HP has pushed out an OS update for the TouchPad tablet, with tweaks to everything from scrolling to security
WANdisco Adds Context To Apache Subversion
WANdisco offers uberSVN and its app store to unify the software Apache Subversion development process
Spain Investigates “Anticompetitive” Oracle
Spanish authorities are examining HP's claims of anticompetitive practices by Oracle relating to Itanium support
Apple Opens Up iCloud Beta To Developers
Apple has given developers the chance to play with its new syncing and storage website, iCloud.com
LibreOffice Gets Enterprise Release
The Document Foundation has put out what it calls the first version of LibreOffice that's ready for business
Gorilla Logic Offers Flex, AIR Test Tool
Gorilla Logic has released FlexMonkey 5, updatin its testing platform for Adobe Flex and AIR applications
Huawei Hires John Suffolk, Former Government CIO
Chinese networking giant Huawei has appointed the former Government CIO as its cyber security boss
Why Big Vendors Can’t Completely Rule Security
Despite the best efforts to dominate, the security giants reign over a fragmented market. Eric Doyle believes this will always be true
Enisa Details HTML5 Threats
New analysis by the EU cyber-security agency details 51 security issues with upcoming web standards such as HTML5
Adobe Looks To HTML5 For Flash-Style Animation
Adobe has released a first preview of Adobe Edge, which uses HTML5 to create Flash-like animation
Facebook Offers Bug Bounties
Facebook has followed Mozilla, Google and others in offering cash for the disclosure of security flaws
Apache Developers: Java 7 Contains Bugs
Java 7 holds errors that can cause virtual machines to crash or create bugs in apps, say Apache devs