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...ZDNet, a technology news site, reported that hacker groups using names such as Amanda Collective and Fancy Bear were behind the attacks on NZX and several other financial institutions, including PayPal,...
...ZDNet calculates there are 1.2bn PCs using Windows around the world, with around 1bn on Windows 10 and most of the remaining 200m still on Windows 7, which will no longer receive any bug fixes or security...
...Opera GX is a custom version for gamers that comes with dedicated features that let users limit the browser's access to computer resources such as the processor and memory, ZDNet reports....
...One of them, Cisco's Michael Beesley, gave his predictions to ZDNet....
...(ZDNet) Tech tools you can use - Apple HomePod Apple's entry in the "smart speaker" category (finally) is more than Siri-in-a-box....
...On Friday, meanwhile, ZDNet reported that SGI, the high performance computing firm connected to Wright’s alleged supercomputing activities, had denied any involvement with his company Cloudcroft Supercomputers...
...(ZDNet) Apple Star Wars capture Apple has snapped up Faceshift, a startup based in Zurich that has developed technology to create animated avatars that capture a person’s facial expressions in real time...
...With two iPad releases this year alone, an irritated Ken Hess of ZDNet asked: “How stupid do you think people are?”...
...As one security expert told a ZDNet blog, “the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is highly prescriptive in nature, but simply complying does not ensure credit card security....
...Facebook has fixed a bug that allowed users to access private photos through a image reporting tool, ZDNet reports....
...Apple has had its patent for the “slide to unlock” control used on its devices confirmed, ZDNet reports....
...Facebook told ZDNet that half of those 45,000 people had already changed their passwords by the time they were nabbed, diminishing the worm’s impact....
...Tech news from around the web: Facebook users are becoming increasingly concerned over a hack that turns their newsfeeds into a stream of hardcore pornography and gory pictures, ZDNet reports....
...Elsewhere, Jason Perlow of ZDNet’s Tech Broiler blog argued that without a focus on the rising mobile market, Adobe Flash is “irrelevant”....
...ZDNet’s Rachel King praised the feature as “something a lot of users wanted without much of a voice asking for it.”...
...Tech news from around the web: Facebook is updating its photo viewer, ZDNet reports. Facebook Photos will look cleaner, easier to view and bigger....
...Tech news from around the web: Google has officially launched games on its social network, Google+, ZDnet reports....
...A number of high-profile websites including The Daily Telegraph and BetFair had access disrupted for several hours on Sunday evening by a DNS – or domain name system – hack, ZDNet reports....
...However, both PC World and ZDNet felt that beyond all the hype, it is “too early” to tell if Windows 8 will be an “iPad killer”....
...hours of Apple’s announcement that it had issued an upgrade to combat the Mac Defender malware program, the hacking software had a new variant that renders key portions of the prevention plan obsolete, ZDNet...
...Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet argued that the change of leadership will open doors to Apple’s competitors....
...Tech news from around the web: Google has announced its new solar energy fund for SolarCity, a residential solar power provider, ZDNet reports....
...And ZDNet listed the five things it loved about the new service. Meanwhile, News Corp ended its hunt to find a buyer for its once market-leading social networking service, MySpace....
...ZDNet pointed out that Zuckerberg’s speech hinted at Google’s social efforts with Google+....
...streaming music services, streaming music video services, so-called “cloud” music services and other similar services’.Amercian Airlines is to become the first US carrier to test a new video streaming service, ZDNet...
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