Adobe and Microsoft put forth their respective Patch Tuesday updates this week, bringing you their last scheduled patches of 2014. Paul Ducklin digs in…
Daily Archives: December 10, 2014
The Pirate Bay taken down by police, re-emerges within hours
Infamous file-sharing site The Pirate Bay dropped offline for several hours yesterday following a raid of its Stockholm data centre.
Yahoo sells Flickr users’ photos without sharing profits
Don’t expect DMCA takedown notices on this one. As image owners are finding out, Creative Commons-licensed images are legal to share – even for commercial purposes. 
Sony tormentors leak celebrities’ phone numbers, aliases
Those affected include Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
12 Days competition: Day 8 – The amount of spam you can send is…
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 8 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
Can we expect a future free from passwords and PINs?
Will passwords and PINs wither and die? Fast IDentity Online, or FIDO, says its new rules for designing authentication systems should make it “simpler and stronger for all”.