Monday, December 8, 2014

IT News Head Lines (AustralianIT) 12/9/2014

AustralianIT.com.au



Threats emailed to Sony workers
THE FBI says it is investigating threatening emails sent to some employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was hit by a cyber-attack last week.

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Robots kill our jobs in new revolution
THEY come over here with their funny voices and strange ways, taking our jobs, working too hard, too long and too cheaply.

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Yahoo to pass Twitter in mobile ad share
YAHOO chief executive Marissa Mayer has made mobile advertising the centrepiece of her turnaround efforts.

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Court takes up Cisco patent dispute
THE US Supreme Court will revisit a dispute between networking giant Cisco and Commil USA.

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Websites’ role in copycat suicides
CHILDREN are seeking suicide instructions online, a government agency has revealed.

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Teenage hackers targeted Defence
A TEENAGE hacker stole data from the Australian Department of Defence after breaching its networks, ­according to US prosecutors.

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Crossing the line
THE young computer hackers say they’re just playing harmless pranks… but to the law they’re a global security threat.

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Digital shift rattles New Republic mag
THE New Republic, the century-old political magazine bought by a Facebook billionaire in 2012, is in turmoil after the ousting of top editors, amid a shift to digital.

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Apple deleted rivals’ songs from iPods
APPLE deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services from 2007 to 2009 without telling users.

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$65bn bill for data loss, downtime
DATA loss and downtime have cost local organisations a whopping $US55 billion ($65.5bn) over the past 12 months.

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