Faster Forward Archive: Security
Facebook, Warner Bros. team up for in-network movie rentals
"The Dark Knight" may be a few years old now, but it's getting new life as the first title offered up for rent through a partnership between Warner Bros. and Facebook. For 30 Facebook credits, which converts to about $3, you can watch the movie in your browser. Warner Bros. plans to expand the titles available for rent and purchase in the coming months.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 8, 2011; 10:23 AM ET |
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Facebook, Internet TV, Privacy, Security, Social media
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Judge says Sony can see visitors to hacker's site
A judge has said its okay for Sony to get the IP address of every user who has visited a Web site containing a hack for the PlayStation 3.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 7, 2011; 12:04 PM ET |
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Gaming, Privacy, Security
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Google activates 'kill switch' to remove Android malware
Google's response to a bout of Trojan-horse applications targeting its Android operating system shows how much and how little power it exerts over that platform. The key part of Google's latest reaction, announced in a blog post Saturday night by Android security head Rich Cannings, is the remote removal from...
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Rob Pegoraro
| March 7, 2011; 11:04 AM ET |
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Android, Google, Mobile, Security
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Google pulls malware apps from Android Market
Google has pulled 21 mobile applications from its Android Market after being alerted that the apps were pulling information from users and downloading code without permission.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 2, 2011; 3:11 PM ET |
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Microsoft's Windows 7 Service Pack 1 does... something
Microsoft shipped the most important update yet to Windows 7 yesterday--or so you'd conclude from the Redmond, Wash., company's home-page promotion of this Service Pack 1 patch. Its name would suggest the same; Microsoft ranks Service Packs among its most comprehensive, sweeping fixes, issued only two or three times for...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 23, 2011; 11:10 AM ET |
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Security, Windows
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Google adds optional two-step Gmail security
Google just launched a new, secured login for Gmail and other Google services.
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 10, 2011; 4:58 PM ET |
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E-mail, Security
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