August 2017 - Page 2 of 3 - FileHippo News

WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Pleads Not Guilty To Creation Of Kronos Malware

News August 17, 2017

British man known as ‘MalwareTech’ faces US court. The hero who stopped the WannaCry ransomware epidemic dead in its tracks back in May, has pled not guilty to being responsible for selling the banking trojan Kronos, which was designed to steal people’s online banking details. The 23-year-old security researcher... Read more

Tech Is Taking On White Supremacists…And Winning

News August 17, 2017

PayPal, Airbnb, and GoDaddy among the tech companies making a stand. Members of radical Christian hate groups have made plenty of headlines in the past few weeks, most recently for attacking counter-protestors who disagreed with their Nazi flags and faux Confederate flags. One woman was killed and others were... Read more

Bill Gates Gives Away $4.6bn To Charity In Biggest Donation Since 2000

News August 16, 2017

Bill Gates, the world’s richest person, has given away 64 million Microsoft shares, reducing his stake in company he co-founded to 1.3%. In a filing to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, Gates revealed he was in the process of donating 64 million shares of his Microsoft shares, worth... Read more

Grammarly For Chrome: Grammar Made Easy?

Desktop News Software Reviews August 16, 2017

Grammarly for Chrome is a free extension for Google’s Chrome browser which checks your grammar and spelling. The Grammarly extension works pretty much just like the spell checker in most Word Processors such as Word, but does it for all your online stuff instead. It works with Twitter, Facebook,... Read more

Spoils Of War: Indian Police Arrest Four For Game Of Thrones Leak

News August 16, 2017

Police in India have arrested four IT workers suspected of leaking the Series 7, episode 4 the “Spoils of War”, days before it was aired. All four of the accused were arrested and appeared before a judge and will be detained in custody for at least a week. Police in India claim... Read more

Facebook Launches “Watch” Tab To Compete With YouTube

News Social Media Video August 15, 2017

Another day, another online streaming option that helps take a stab at the regional monopolies owned by the telecom companies. Facebook is the latest platform to launch a video option that will contain original content, streaming television, and more. Designed to compete with YouTube and generate revenue via advertising,... Read more

Chinese Authorities Investigating Weibo, Baidu, WeChat

News August 15, 2017

Internet freedom, net neutrality, even the very concept of freedom of speech are all hot button topics right now, and even citizens in the respective countries can be left confused as to the meaning of the terms. One former Google employee is currently learning the hard way, for example,... Read more

Man Who Wrote Rules On Difficult Passwords Now Says He R3grets A1M05T Everything.

News Privacy and Security August 14, 2017

Now admits the curse of passwords now ‘drives people bananas’. Bill Burr (not to be confused with comedian Bill Burr) originally came up with the rules on safe passwords, told the Wall Street Journal that his advice given way back at the start of the 21st Century was totally... Read more

TVAddons: When Fighting Piracy Goes Too Far

News August 14, 2017

Canadian telecom companies launch combined counter-attack. Tech users seem to be a fairly divided bunch when it comes to the “grey area” they associate with internet piracy. On the one hand, the software, videos, music, ebooks, and other media are decidedly the property of the content creator, and therefore... Read more

DNA Can Carry Malicious Code, Infecting Networks

News August 12, 2017

Any sci-fi fans who just read that headline will be disappointed to find out this is not the next film adaptation of a Hugo-winning novel. Instead, it’s the subject of a very different kind of writing: a research paper by a team from University of Washington in Seattle. The... Read more

Fears Raised Over Microsoft Surface Reliability

News August 11, 2017

Report claims 25 per cent of Microsoft Surface devices have problems after 24 months. Consumer Reports, the non-profit organization providing unbiased product ratings and reviews since 1936, has said it is removing its “recommended” status for Microsoft Surface products. The company has said that the breakage rate for Microsoft... Read more

Body Hack: IoT Medical Devices Are Vulnerable

News August 11, 2017

DefCon highlights weaknesses in life-saving tech. Hackers and “killing spree” aren’t usually used in the same sentence, but that correlation is exactly what biomedical researchers and cybersecurity experts came together to discuss at the recent DefCon event. It’s no secret that IoT and connected medical implants have had more... Read more

Artist Protests Twitter With Offline Hate Tweets

News Social Media August 10, 2017

‘Not just plain insults or jokes, but absolutely serious threats of violence’. A German-Israeli satirical artist who claims that Twitter has steadfastly failed to deal with hate tweets has taken to stencilling the offensive tweets onto the street directly in front of the company’s Hamburg headquarters. Shahak Shapira posted a... Read more

Solar Energy Vulnerabilities Can Lead To Grid Shutdown

News Privacy and Security August 10, 2017

Dutch researcher finds weakness within inverters. With the current global focus on renewable and green energy, innovations are being made almost daily to make alternative energy sources readily available, affordable, and most of all, actually workable. Currently, a lot of forms of green energy are either cost-prohibitive for individual... Read more

Google Fires Anti-Diversity Memo Author

News August 9, 2017

Male engineer at the centre of current diversity uproar in Silicon Valley. The news comes a little over a week after Google engineer, James Damore, authored an internal memo in which he stated that there were innate biological differences behind the gender inequalities that are rampant in the tech... Read more

Another Week, Another Record Bitcoin High

News August 9, 2017

Value of digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin hits record high after month of turmoil. According to the Coindesk Bitcoin Price Index, the price of bitcoin reached a new high average of $3,525 across global exchanges in the first few days of this week. The surge followed the creation of a spin-off cryptocurrency,... Read more

Anthem Announces Second Data Breach After Settling For $115M

News August 8, 2017

New blow for massive health insurance company. The largest healthcare coverage provider in the US has a little bit of a security problem, as evidenced by their announcement this week. Those not directly connected to the company might have heard the name in the news recently, as Anthem Inc., reached... Read more

Hacker Who Stopped WannaCry Faces Prison