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Twitter marks 8th birthday with your first tweets

Social net gives users a gift to mark its own anniversary

By Sharon Gaudin

Mar 20, 2014 2 mins

Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Social Networking Apps

Facebook’s Hack programming language builds code safety into PHP

Hack pairs PHP's ease with the safety controls of older languages

By Joab Jackson

Mar 20, 2014 4 mins

Application Management Application Performance Management Web Development

Windows leak site Wzor goes dark a day after feds arrest Microsoft mole

Noted Russian leak website disappears, Twitter account vanishes the day after a Russian national was accused of sharing Microsoft trade secrets

By Gregg Keizer

Mar 20, 2014 3 mins

Legal Microsoft Twitter

Fake Tor app has been sitting in Apple’s App Store for months, Tor Project says

Apple has not removed the fake app so far despite being notified in December, Tor developers say

By Lucian Constantin

Mar 20, 2014 2 mins

Apple Malware Mobile Device Management

IBM rolls “Big Data” software to combat big business fraud

IBM Counter Fraud Management Software can used be to fight financial, insurance, healthcare fraud

By Ellen Messmer

Mar 20, 2014 3 mins

Big Data Enterprise Applications IBM

Ex-Microsoft employee arrested, accused of stealing Windows RT, product activation secrets

Big mistake: Allegedly used Hotmail, SkyDrive to share trade secrets with French blogger

By Gregg Keizer

Mar 20, 2014 4 mins

Government Legal LinkedIn

EA Games site hacked to steal Apple IDs

The attackers sought credentials and other personal information through a phishing scheme, researchers said

By Zach Miners

Mar 19, 2014 3 mins

Access Control Data Breach Small and Medium Business

Most ATMs will remain on Windows XP after Microsoft’s pulls plug on OS

Less than 40% of U.S.'s 425,000 ATM systems will have migrated off Windows XP

By Jaikumar Vijayan

Mar 19, 2014 5 mins

Computers and Peripherals Financial Services Industry Microsoft

Microsoft’s free OneNote vaults to top of Mac App Store chart

Also sponsors 'Save to OneNote' tool for Feedly's RSS service

By Gregg Keizer

Mar 19, 2014 4 mins

Apple Enterprise Applications Microsoft

Tip of the Hat: Facebook blocks NSA spies — for now

Social network moves to reassure users that personal data stored on Facebook servers is safe from the prying eyes of NSA spies

By Mike Bucken

Mar 19, 2014 2 mins

Cybercrime Facebook Government