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Mark Zuckerberg seems to want Facebook's public debut to be as dull as his bluey-grey t-shirts. The dominant social network is widely expected to file regulatory documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission later today. But the company's CEO is reportedly hoping to play down the whole affair. Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital reports that this conservative approach on the...
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Mozilla today patched eight vulnerabilities in Firefox as it shipped the latest iteration in its rapid release schedule. Firefox 10, sixth in the line of updates that have been rolling off the development line every six weeks since mid-2011, fixed half a dozen flaws rated "critical," Mozilla's highest threat ranking, and another two labeled "high." One of the notable vulnerabilities...
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Federal prosecutors in the US have said data from users of Megaupload could start being deleted by Thursday – but the lawyer for its founders says if the servers are wiped his clients will be less able to defend themselves in court. US prosecutors have blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men including founder Kim Dotcom, who is based in New Zealand. It is alleged the site has...
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he largest-ever Android malware campaign may have duped as many as 5 million users into downloading infected apps from Google's Android Market, Symantec said today. Dubbed "Android.Counterclank" by Symantec, the malware was packaged in 13 different apps from three different publishers, with titles ranging from "Sexy Girls Puzzle" to "Counter Strike Ground Force." Many of the infected apps...
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Three high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to their classmates. The students are accused of breaking into the janitor's office of California's Palos Verdes High School and making a copy of the master key, giving them access to all the classrooms. They then attached keylogging hardware to...
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Mozilla developers have given the green light to ship Firefox 10 on Tuesday. Notes from a Mozilla meeting last week said that the upgrade was on for Jan. 31, the next ship date in the every-six-week schedule that the company adopted last year. The new version includes one of the first components of Firefox's planned silent update mechanism: The browser automatically disables incompatible...
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Twitter's move to comply with government requests and block tweets in specific countries could blunt its edge as a political tool, but there may be an upside in helping to unmask censorship, some privacy experts said Friday. Twitter now has the ability to remove a tweet from its users' feeds in a particular country, according to a company blog post on Thursday. Twitter said it hasn't done so...
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