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While Twitter is anxious with the aloofness of its users and attention them from boilerplate phishing attacks and such, it's absurd annihilation it was traveling to do would assure its users' absolute letters from the brand of the NSA, acclaimed Tal Klein, carnality admiral of business for Adallom. Moreover, that affectionate of encryption would actual acceptable crank up the chump complaints. While Twitter rose to ballyhoo by getting the abode area humans agitated the development of their lives, there are times if its users don't wish anybody in the online apple to see what they're thinking. For those occasions, there's absolute messaging. When absolute letters are beatific by one tweeter to another, there's a assertive apprehension of aloofness there -- even admitting little is done to assure those letters should they be snatched by a snoop. Twitter was planning to change that. It launched a affairs endure November to accretion a way to encrypt ab...

Today in all-embracing tech news: Scientists acknowledge that Earth almost absent what would accept been crippling solar blasts aback in 2012. Also: Brazil drops its calm abstracts accumulator edict; Alibaba buys a $215 actor pale in a messaging app; and an Aussie man is answerable with hacking into a U.S. videogame company's computer network. Enormous solar blasts, which bedevilled the abeyant to wreak calamity on electrical grids and satellites, almost absent Earth in 2012. The near-misses, appear by advisers Wednesday, would accept been affiliated to the 1859 Carrington Event, the better solar storm anytime recorded. While there were no satellites to attenuate aback then, the storm agape out telegraph systems beyond the U.S. A abstraction from 2013 estimated that a Carrington-esque storm would amount the all-around abridgement added than US$2.5 trillion. The storms from 2012 complex astronomic bursts of solar wind and alluring fields, which attempt off...

Today in all-embracing tech news: Japan wants humans to drudge government agencies -- in a acceptable way; Google gives out aureate flags for YouTube; Apple launches a cheaper, beneath able iPhone 5c; China could anneal its crackdown on e-payments; and astronomers acquisition aberrant affirmation for the Big Bang Theory. Japan arrive hackers -- nice ones, that is -- to go to boondocks on the nation's government departments Tuesday. The move is advised to betrayal weaknesses in cyberdefenses and bolster civic aegis advanced of the 2020 Olympics, which will be captivated in Japan. Britain active a agnate action advanced of the 2012 Olympics in London. Japan enlisted 50 cyberdefense specialists to accumulate at an emergency acknowledgment centermost in Tokyo; an added 100-plus were stationed offsite as they approved to avert adjoin a apish advance adjoin 21 accompaniment ministries and 10 automated applications. Japan aswell is alteration its cybersecurity beha...

Mobile gaming is on a tear, and Google's cross-platform multiplayer advance can alone add to that momentum. Much of what consumers are admiring to is based on the freemium model, though, which agency developers charge to appear up with able means to monetize their apps. One analytical basic of any monetization activity is analytics, and Google has bolstered Play Games' analytics accoutrement as well. Google on Monday appear a amount of new appearance to the Google Play Amateur belvedere that are advised to accession discoverability and cross-platform multiplayer gaming while accouterment developers with added analytics. Three out of every four humans who use the Android operating arrangement play games, according to Google. Given that there are added than 1 billion activated Android devices, there's a all-inclusive befalling for developers to ability gamers and accomplish acquirement in a growing market. Four times added money was paid to Google Play ...

Google's years-long ball with Beijing gets added absorbing as the aggregation starts encrypting searches in China. Also: China's axial coffer prohibits paying for things by scanning bar codes with adaptable devices; China embarks on messaging app crackdown; and Apple is accounted the a lot of accepted adaptable aggregation a allotment of those who apparently can't allow to buy smartphones. Google's years-long argument with Beijing just began a new chapter. The aggregation has amorphous encrypting searches fabricated by humans in China, area Google has continued run afield of regulations advised to accumulate a bound lid on searches accounted inappropriate. Google's encryption of searches in China reportedly will anticipate the "Great Firewall of China" from audition if users seek for atrocious agreement like "Tiananmen Square" or "Dalai Lama." China could just out and block Google altogether, but abbreviate of acco...

The admeasurement of the net the NSA has casting in its efforts to action agitation is ample abundant to be hasty -- if not abominable -- even to those who've become acclimatized to audition about the agency's abounding and assorted data-trawling tactics. The NSA's Turbine affairs reportedly has delivered malware to as abounding as 100,000 computers and networks, and has the adequacy of infecting millions. The latest Snowden revelations about NSA surveillance activities announce the bureau could affect millons of computers with malware, and has spoofed Facebook servers to abduction cartage from targets. Documents ahead leaked by NSA bigmouth Edward Snowden cover abundant descriptions of its accoutrement and techniques, First Look reported. "It is not hasty that the NSA would actualize and arrange malware," Harley Geiger, chief admonition at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told TechNewsWorld. "What is hasty is the affirmation th...

WhatsApp Flaw Opens Database Doors to Hackers It's not bright what amount hackers ability accretion in perusing the chats of WhatsApp users, but that's baby abundance to those who'd rather not betrayal their clandestine conversations. An Android developer presented a affidavit of abstraction assuming how the accomplishment could be done, but there's no acumen to accept that any thieves accept penetrated the WhatsApp vault. It could beggarly a snag in Facebook's accretion deal.    An Android developer's acknowledgment that it's possibleВ to drudge into the WhatsApp databaseВ and apprehend the argument of the chats from addition appliance could be a big cephalalgia for Facebook, which has agreed to acquirement the app for US$19 billion. "This is not a bug, but a architecture accommodation of WhatsApp," Bas Bosschert, arch technology administrator ofВ Double Think, told LinuxInsider. "They called for account in thei...

Facebook 'Watch naked video of friends' malware betray infects 2 actor people We accept apparent a lot of Facebook malware and virus infections overextension through accompany list, and this time a new clickjacking scam attack is traveling viral on Facebook. Hackers spam Facebook timeline with a friend's account and "See (Friend)'s naked video," or "(Friend Name's) Private Video." The Account appears to be uploaded by a acquaintance and definitely, you ability wish to see some of your Facebook accompany naked, But Beware! If you get analytical and click, you will be redirected to a malicious website letters that your Flash Player is not alive appropriately and needs to be re-installed. But in achievement it will install a malware in your arrangement and already approved, several bearded affair can appear to you. It added installs a malicious browser extension to advance the betray and abduct users’ photos. ...

 Fed Ruling May Bring Flocks of Buzzing Drones to US Skies The FAA's rules on the bartering use of drones are just guidelines, it turns out, which could beggarly the baby adeptness anon will be alive about our alive like flies. There already accept been several incidents of abutting calls amid drones and humans, however, so it's acceptable the government will acquisition some way of anchor down on their boundless bartering use. The use of bartering drones in U.S. airspace is about legal, at atomic for the time being. National Transportation Assurance Board Judge Patrick Geraghty this anniversary nixed the Federal Aviation Administration's attack to burden a US$10,000 adjoin Raphael Pirker for application a remote-controlled glider to abduction video footage for an ad. Since Pirker had acclimated the bombinate for bartering purposes, he abandoned regulations that appropriate such bartering use of unmanned air systems to aboriginal accept approval from the agency...