You pay less if the item you’re buying has a couple of dings on it. Verizon is apparently close to purchasing Yahoo’s Internet properties for roughly $4.8 billion, a price that includes a $250 million discount after the revelation of security breaches at the web company. Sources close to the store cited the discounted price […]
Tag: 2014
Apple appears to have nixed the “Fruitfly” malware strain. The malware, which has been patched over, relied on antiquated code predating OS X. Although older, the Fruitfly malware had been used in real-world attacks on biomedical research groups according to security software maker Malwarebytes. Fruitfly operated by communicating with two command-and-control servers, and can perform […]
It doesn’t look good when half a billion of your company’s email accounts are hacked. And it looks a bit worse when a cool billion of them in total were hacked. Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an unauthorized third party […]
You might have a part of a class action lawsuit reward coming your way. The United States Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced that it will be distributing more than $88 million in refunds to 2.7 million AT&T customers who had unauthorized third-party charges added to their service bills, something better known as “mobile cramming.” […]
If your 27-inch iMac hinge has been wonky, Apple is stepping in to cover it in some cases. A new report has stated that ome 27-inch iMacs shipped between Dec. 2012 and July 2014 may stop adjusting properly and simply tilt forward,. People who paid to get their hinge fixed may have ended up spending […]