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Apple urges iPhone owners to update immediately
New Zealand Herald Apple is urging iPhone owners to update their iOS immediately to patch a new security flaw which could give hackers control of their device. Known as Broadpwn, the bug affects the Wi-Fi chips found in both Android and Apple smartphones and allows an … |
Yesterday, Amazon announced that it would be cutting the prices of both its S3 and EBS cloud-based storage. Today, Microsoft announced that it too was cutting the cost of its cloud storage. The software giant promised last April that it would match Amazon’s prices for commodity cloud services: storage, bandwidth, and computation.
Amazon’s pricing varies from region to region, and the price cuts range from 6 percent if you’re storing between 1 and 50 terabytes of data, to up to 22 percent—though you’ll need to be storing at least 5 petabytes to take advantage of this.
Microsoft says that not only is it going to match these prices, making cuts of up to 20 percent itself, but it will also charge the same amount in every region. This means that Azure storage will in some parts of the world as much as 10 percent cheaper than the Amazon equivalent.
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New Universal Exploit Lets Cyber Thieves Immediately Snatch Data From …
Betabeat Malware scammers are streamlining the process they use to steal vital information with a new exploit that works on any website, not just a mocked-up PayPal form. This newly-discovered exploit has been spookily dubbed “Universal Man-in-the-Browser,” or … |
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