Amazon announced their latest offering this morning, Kindle Unlimited. It is a subscription service for ebooks and a 3-month credit for Audible audiobooks. For $9.99 per month, you get unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks. It works across the various Kindle models and other devices with the Kindle apps. You can have up to 10 books out at a time … [Read more...]
Microsoft takes down No-IP for passive role with malware
Microsoft took to the offense this week against malware, specifically Bladabindi (NJrat) and Jenxcus (NJw0rm) family of malware. This was their third malware disruption since November's launch of the Microsoft Cybercrime Center. In their sights to try to shut down this malware was another U.S.-based company, No-IP, with parent company Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, … [Read more...]
Canada and EU implement laws that impact tech
Canada and the European Union have both passed laws that are being implemented and impact technology. Three laws in particular have caused some technology companies to change how they are doing things. Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation If Canadian bacon is really just ham, what is Canadian spam? Non-existent, at least after this new law. New legislation comes into force today … [Read more...]
McAfee writes about Operation Tovar, taking a swipe at CryptoLocker and Gameover Zeus
We previously wrote about CryptoLocker, the trojan that encrypts your files and then holds the decryption key ransom, over six months ago. It and many variants have continued to harass and charge individuals and organizations. For those victims, McAfee made an exciting announcement yesterday. Law enforcement and the private sector, including McAfee, cooperated to dismantle the … [Read more...]
Alternatives or a future for TrueCrypt
Starting on Wednesday, the official TrueCrypt website, truecrypt.org, has redirected to SourceForge and says that development has ended 5/2014. WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support … [Read more...]