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15 August, 2014
An Australian teenager who found a security flaw in an Australian public transport authority's website has found another serious vulnerability, this time in the site of global payments provider PayPal. The flaw, uncovered by 17-year-old Melbourne schoolboy Joshua Rogers, allowed hackers to bypass the payment provider's two-factor authentication system
14 August, 2014
Another alleged music pirate pinged under New Zealand's 'Skynet'. The tribunal ordered the unnamed Vodafone customer to pay Recorded Music New Zealand NZ$738.96 ($670.50) in costs, damages and "deterrent" payments after their account was used to illegally share music, including Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.
A handful of jobseekers are listing achievements in video games such as the role-playing platform World of Warcraft on their resumes or LinkedIn profiles, betting that virtual-world accomplishments will impress hiring managers in real life. Some players say the game’s tasks aren’t that different from the duties of the modern office job.
13 August, 2014
12 August, 2014
11 August, 2014
Finnish security firm F-Secure has shown that a smartphone from Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi does secretly steal user data without their permission despite strong denials by the company last month. At the end of July a number of articles claimed that phones made by up-and-coming Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi - often called the 'Apple of the East' - were silently uploading user information to servers based in Beijing.
CHINA for the first time placed restrictions on instant-messaging services — an increasingly popular platform in the country for discussion and debate. The new rules don’t appear to apply to instant messaging between users and their personal contacts.
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Intercultural Understanding,
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