Новости за 07.03.2016

Dropbox has long been an incredibly popular choice for cloud file storage and sync, and the company announced Monday it hit an important milestone: It has 500 million registered users. 

Verizon Wireless, in a settlement over its use of so-called supercookies to track mobile customers, will notify customers about its targeted advertising practices and will obtain their permission before sharing personal identifiers with third parties.

When you think of Microsoft, what product first comes to mind? Windows, you say? How quaint.

Microsoft's Edge browser made gains in user and usage share last month, but the default browser of Windows 10 remained the choice of a minority of users -- according to some sources, a very small minority.

Generic top-level domains (TLDs) that have sprung up in recent years have become a magnet for cybercriminals, to the point where some of them host more malicious domains than legitimate ones.

GoDaddy is jumping headfirst into last decade and, finally, offering a global cloud product.

There are multiple bypass vulnerabilities which could allow an attacker to get past the passcode lock screen on Apple devices running iOS 9.

Apple will pay $450 million as a settlement for e-book price fixing after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the company's appeal of a lower court's antitrust ruling.

SharePoint Server 2016 introduces the MinRole feature, which is used during the deployment of SharePoint Server 2016 to define the role of the server being added to the SharePoint farm.

Following last week's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings from Sports Authority, it's easy to play Monday morning quarterback and criticize how Sports Authority handled its business. The path to bankruptcy court can be complicated. But a key concern now is not what led this chain to bankruptcy court as much as what its plan is for going forward. And it appears that its post-bankruptcy plan of attack suffers from the same misguided strategy that got it to bankruptcy court.

Apple's head of software engineering took to The Washington Post's op-ed page Sunday to reprise many of the arguments the company -- and supporters -- have made to contest a federal court order that would compel it to help the FBI break into a passcode-locked iPhone.

A new malware briefly flared in the Macworld this weekend but there’s only an extremely slim chance your Mac has been affected. Don’t panic at the inevitable hype: here’s how to protect yourself.

After five years at LinkedIn and a prior decade spent at tech startups, Erica Lockheimer had grown used to navigating a male-dominated workplace, despite bumping up against the occasional gender-related bias.

Name a city, pick a date, and you’ll likely find a nearby hackathon, whether you’re in Des Moines, Iowa, or Yerevan, Armenia.

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing email and putting the now ubiquitous “@” sign in addresses, has died at the age of 74.

Virtually everyone in technology knows about Kevin Mitnick, who in the 1970s, '80s and '90s was a notorious fugitive hacker on the run from the FBI.

IT support staffers at this online bank decide it's time to try playing the lottery as a group, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

With the help of security researchers, Apple over the weekend quickly blocked a cyberattack aimed at infecting Mac users with file-encrypting malware known as ransomware.

Apple Mac OS X is immune to ransomware and other malware, right? Wrong -- bad guys have somehow broken into the Transmission client and injected the installer with Windows-style ransomware, which is being called KeRanger.