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Windows 8.x breaks 10 percent, Internet Explorer 11 makes a splash

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Net Market Share

In 2013, Internet Explorer reversed some of its historic losses, Google released Chrome for Android, and Windows 8 surpassed OS X and Windows Vista to become the third most widely used desktop operating system.

Net Market Share

Net Market Share

Compared to last month, Internet Explorer actually fell slightly, declining by 0.45 points. Firefox, Safari, and Opera also fell, down 0.19, 0.08, and 0.06 points, respectively. The month’s winner was Chrome, which picked up 0.78 points.

Over the course of the entire year, Internet Explorer was up 3.14 points on 2012. Firefox was down 1.47 points. Chrome was also down by 1.82 points. Safari rose 0.58 points.

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Facebook moves fast, breaks something – San Francisco Gate

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The result was “one monumental screw-up,” computer security expert Graham Cluley said Tuesday. The problems started when the contact e-mail addresses members chose to display on their Facebook profile pages were changed without notice to the name@facebook …
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The more you encrypt, the more the government breaks into your cloud

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Your online privacy has never been less private; try to protect it with encryption and the government steps around you via stored records in the cloud. While not everyone encrypts data stored locally on their hard drive, encryption is becoming the default for Internet communications. If it is encrypted, then it seems to be interpreted as a threat by government and law enforcement agencies. In fact,…
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APWG eCrime Report: Classified Ads Sector Breaks Out in Q2 2010 As a Rapidly Expanding Phishing Vector – PR Inside

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The online classified advertisement services sector has been increasingly exploited as a phishing attack vector by ecrime gangs, a trend confirmed by the growth of attacks abusing classified companies in the first half of 2010, accounting for 6.6 percent …
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