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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Disclosure: Our team is always looking for things we think our readers will value. We have received compensation for publishing this article. Despite our many technological advances today, we still sit with situations where we open several apps for a task. You use one to compile a document, another one…

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch

GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…

Google Denies Deleting Palestine From Google Maps
Accusations, outrage, and half truths abound online after a glitch caused the West Bank and Gaza to briefly disappear from Google Maps. Validating the truism that on the internet a lie can go viral before the truth has even checked for status updates, Google has found itself accused of... Read more
Facebook Bypasses Adblockers On Desktops
Facebook has, according to a post on their blog, found a way around installed adblockers on desktop browsers. Quite how the social media giant has managed this hasn’t been totally revealed as of yet, but if the news is correct, then even Facebook users deploying ad-blocking software will begin... Read more
Bitfinex Bitcoin Clients To Share 36% Hit To Asset Base Following Exchange Hack
Bitfinex, the popular online bitcoin storage exchange has told its users that they will all lose 36% of their assets following a cyber-attack. The exchange, based in Hong Kong, said it had lost up to $65m following the successful cyber-attack that occurred last week. News of the hack, and the... Read more
Mozilla Testpilot: No More 404
Mozilla are test piloting a new project called No More 404 on its official Test Pilot website. The add on for Firefox has been designed to provide users with the option of reading deleted versions of web pages. In essence, the idea behind the project is that the new... Read more
Mayhem wins Cyber-Attack Defense Competition
A piece of computer software known as “Mayhem”, has won a competition in Las Vegas, that was seeking to find the best software that can defend against cyber-attacks at a completely autonomous level. The competition was the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was setup... Read more
40% Of Businesses Targeted By Ransomware Alone
Ransomware is currently on track to become the most prevalent form of malware affecting business, with almost 40 percent of businesses experiencing a ransomware attack last year alone. According to a report by security firm, Malwarebytes, which surveyed 500 companies in four countries, their research found that one-third of targeted... Read more
200 Million Yahoo Accounts Up For Sale On Dark Web
Yahoo, the former web giant that once allegedly passed up the opportunity to buy both Google and Facebook, and was sold to Verizon last week for a fraction of what it was once worth, is investigating a possible huge data breach of its users credentials. The hacker known as... Read more
Windows 10 Driver Kernels Just Made The OS Safer
Microsoft are doubling down on their efforts to make Windows 10 more secure by announcing that all drivers for fresh installs of the operating system will now have to be digitally signed by the Redmond based business. Admittedly Microsoft have made this statement before, last year in fact, when... Read more
Win A MacBook Pro With Opera And FileHippo!
New And Improved: Opera Version 39 To Hit The Web August 2nd Last month we at FileHippo joined forces with Opera to give away a Surface Pro,and this month we’re doing it again. Except this time, it’s not a Surface up for grabs but a MacBook Pro! Filehippo and Opera... Read more
Global Shortage Of Cybersecurity Shortage According To Intel Report
The Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has found that over 200,000 cybersecurity jobs were left vacant in the US in 2015 and that an average of 15% of cybersecurity positions will remain vacant by 2020. “This is a global problem; a majority of respondents in... Read more
Microsoft Cuts 2,850 Staff As Windows Phone Runs Out Of Charge
So it probably came as no surprise that when Microsoft announced they were leaving the smart phone business earlier this year, that there would be job losses. What has come as a surprise however is that the company has revealed that number of staff facing the axe is more... Read more
Moore’s Law Soon To Be Given Last Rites
Moore’s Law, one of the most prescient observations made about the increasing power of computer processors that has become accepted theory and practice for almost 50 years, may soon be no more. This is the news, that barring some sort of technological breakthrough, the practical limits on improvement of... Read more
Yahoo Sold To Verizon…
…And Yahoo Becomes Just Another Footnote In The History Of The World Wide Web. Yes that’s right, Yahoo, the once ruling overlord of the World Wide Web has sold its core internet business properties to Verizon for $4.83 billion in cash. The news marks an ignoble end to a... Read more
isoHunt Agrees $66,000,000 Settlement With Canadian Music Industry
Deal also ends ‘iconic’ file sharing website’s last legal battle
 Gary Fung, the man who launched isoHunt back in 2003, a website famous for allowing users to search pirated movies, music, and other files via BitTorrent has agreed to pay Music Canada a total of Canadian $66 million to... Read more
Microsoft Threatened By French Watchdog
Microsoft risks fines unless it complies with a three-month ultimatum from France’s data privacy watchdog, CNIL, to stop collecting masses of data and tracking Windows 10 users without their consent, and importantly, transferring data outside the EU to ‘safe harbour’ locations, all in violation of French law. CNIL can... Read more
Mozilla To Block Flash From August
Mozilla will block Flash in Firefox starting next month Mozilla is helping to hammer another nail in the coffin of Flash, and has finally joined other major browser vendors by deciding that starting August this year, Firefox will begin to block invisible Flash content, and that starting 2017, all... Read more
Ukrainian Kickass Torrents Creator Arrested
US authorities have arrested the alleged Ukrainian mastermind thought to be behind the illegal Kickass torrent file sharing site. Artem Vaulin, aged 30, has been charged ‘conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement.’ US attorney... Read more
HTTPoxy: 15-Year-Old Security Flaw Is Back To Menace Websites Again  
Although really it never actually went anywhere because most people never fixed it because they didn’t know it was a problem… HTTPoxy; this time its war. Well, maybe not. But it does sound like one of the most unlikely sequels in history, and if it was a movie, it... Read more