As anticipated, users are complaining about PSN log-in issues as the PlayStation Network seems to have been overwhelmed with the hundreds of thousands of users trying to log-on through their newly bought…
DICE rolls out major Battlefield 4 Battlelog update
DICE has rolled out a major update for Battlefield 4 Battlelog addressing multiple issues including the Xbox One Premium issue and has revealed that an update for the PC version of the…
Captcha bypass vulnerability in Pastebin discovered
A security researcher has discovered a captcha bypass vulnerability in Pastebin and has opted for full disclosure as the online pasting tool has failed to resolve the issue even after multiple reminders….
Google Nexus 5 vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
Google Nexus smartphones including the latest Google Nexus 5 running Android 4.4 KitKat are vulnerable to denial-of-service attack via Flash SMS messages; it has been revealed on Friday during DefCamp security conference…
UK Gov to order ISPs to block extremist websites
UK Government is mulling ways to keep netizens away from the influence of terror related contents and one of the measures it dubs viable is to orders ISPs to block extremist websites,…
Virgin Media outs TV Anywhere Android app
Virgin Media has released an Android app for its TV Anywhere on-demand and live streaming television service for all its customers starting Thursday. The TV Anywhere app will work with most Android…
Court orders search engines to de-list, ISPs to block DPstream, Fifostream and Allostreaming
In what could be dubbed as the king of all DMCA takedown requests, Paris High Court has ordered Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to de-list all infringing URLs belonging to three video portals…
Asus, Toshiba to join Chromebook bandwagon as early as 2014
Google may have new vendors launching Chromebooks soon as reports from sources familiar with the matter indicate that Asus and Toshiba are planning to launch Chrome OS powered laptops as early as…
Dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 specs leaked
Samsung is about to release yet another member in its medium-range Galaxy series of smartphones – a successor to Galaxy S Duos appropriately named Galaxy S Duos 2. Leaked by Hungarian website…
LG G Flex to go international as early as December
G Flex, the first curved smartphone from LG, is all set to launch in Hong Kong on December 3. Invitations for the launch event have already been sent out to the media…
Dutch privacy authorities accuse Google of data protection law violation
Dutch privacy watchdog, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), after a seven-month investigation, has accused Google of breaching Dutch personal data protection law since it introduced a new privacy policy last year….
Microsoft ready for its next CEO?
Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally and internal executive Satya Nadella are the two final names being focused upon by Microsoft board for the position of company’s next CEO, a…
Ericsson under anti-trust radar in India following Micromax complaints
Swedish Telecom gear leader, Ericsson, is facing an investigation from Competition Commission of India (CCI) following a complaint by handset maker Micromax for allegedly using its dominant position in charging higher royalty…
Windows XP local privilege escalation zero-day discovered; Microsoft initiates investigation
Security researchers have warned of a local privilege escalation bug in Windows XP, the exploit code was which is already available on the net. FireEye researchers revealed through a blog post that…
European Parliament culls public Wi-Fi access after email hack
A white hat hacker managed to break into multiple email accounts thereby forcing the European Parliament to cutoff its public Wi-Fi access. The French security researcher apparently performed man-in-the-middle attacks on multiple…