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ZDNet: After Google offered a bounty to any hacker who could expose a vulnerability in its Chrome browser, Chrome was the first browser to fall in the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition. For the previous two years of the competition, no teams had found vulnerabilities in tChrome. “We wanted to show that Chrome was not unbreakable. […]

Cnet: Even before seeing the new iPad, 42 percent of current iPad owners surveyed by PriceGrabber said they planned to purchase the new model. The top features that iPad owners hoped to see in the new tablet included a lower price (54 percent), better battery (52 percent), an SD card slot, an HDMI port, a […]

Washington Post: On Wednesday, Facebook users in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa experienced an outage for approximately two hours. The social network issued a statement saying, “Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe. The issue has been resolved and everyone should […]

NetworkWorld: IBM has released the results of a new survey which finds that only 13 percent of enterprises have embraced cloud computing in a substantial way. However, the same report predicts that 41 percent of enterprises will substantially move to the cloud within three years. Currently, 72 percent of the 572 executives surveyed said that […]

Reuters: Adding to the already large number of lawsuits pending between Samsung and Apple, Samsung has filed a new case against its rival. This suit, filed in South Korea, alleges that the iPhone 4S and iPad2 infringe on three Samsung patents covering methods of displaying data, the user interface, and short text messages. The two […]

The Register: Adobe usually releases security updates on the second Tuesday of the month, but this month it is pushing out a Flash patch a week early. The upgrade fixes two vulnerabilities discovered by Google; both involve a memory corruption vulnerability in Matrix3D. No known exploits for the vulnerabilities exist, but Adobe has released the […]

Computerworld: For the nineteenth time in six years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it is reducing the prices for its cloud computing services. This time it will enact a “significant price decrease” of up to 42 percent for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), ElastiCache and Elastic Map Reduce. In […]

Bloomberg: U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has ordered Google to provide Apple with details about its development of Android, as well as information about its pending $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The ruling comes in a patent lawsuit filed by Apple against Motorola Mobility, which has also filed a countersuit. Trial for the […]

InformationWeek: The recently released consumer preview of Windows 8 has received a lot of media attention, but Microsoft issued another release at the same time that could arguably be even more significant for enterprise IT: a beta of Windows Server 8. In fact, some experts predict that the enterprise migration to Windows Server 8 will […]

FOX News: The FBI has revealed the identity of Sabu, the alleged head of the hacker gang LuzlSec. They say Sabu is Hector Xavier Monsegur, a 28-year-old, unemployed father of two who lives in public housing. Monsegur has reportedly been working with the federal agency since last June. Based on information he provided, the FBI […]

MSNBC: According to security vendor Symantec, people who thought they were helping the hacker group Anonymous may themselves have become the victim of hack attacks. Following the take-down of the site Megaupload, Anonymous launched a series of DDoS attacks against the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Universal Music Group, the Recording Industry Association of […]

Cnet: Over the weekend, Apple announced that its App Store officially crossed 25 billion downloads. The App Store hit 10 billion downloads a little more than a year ago. To celebrate the milestone, Apple gave away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the person who made the 25 billionth download. That person was Chunli Fu […]