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Windows will soon support the SSH encryption protocol for remote access

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 11:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Furthering Microsoft’s push to support open source, the company has announced that it plans to add Secure Shell (SSH) support to Windows in the future. SSH is a protocol that allows users to access the command line of remote computers. The team behind Powershell, Microsoft’s shell environment, said that it’s been working to add SSH for a number of years but it didn’t make the cut in both the first or second versions of Powershell. The SSH library used by Windows will be OpenSSH as it’s ‘industry proven’ and Microsoft plans to give back to the project by contributing to the…

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Google’s Web history page gets a Material Design makeover

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 11:29 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Just a few days ago, Google started rolling out a revamped privacy and security settings hub to make it easier to keep control of your data. Now, it’s making it easier to see exactly what you’ve been up to online via your activity page. On the left-hand side of the page, your personal data is split into sections: Web and App activity, Voice and Audio activity, Device information, Location history, YouTube search history and YouTube watch history. It’s not that the new design offers up information you couldn’t access before, but it’s now far easier to access it – or to look at it…

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The next ‘Sony hack’ could be detected immediately by this dark Web scanning software

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 9:56 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, dark web, Insider, Matchlight, Sony hack, Terbium Labs

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The first Sony executives knew about the calamitous data breach, which would send their emails spilling across the Web, was an image of a skeleton flashing up on their computers screens with the warning: “…this is just a beginning.” If the hackers hadn’t decided to publicly embarrass the company, it’s likely that many weeks, if not months, could have passed before it became aware of the leaks. A report by the Ponomon Institute, a privacy and data security research center, found the average time to detect an attack in 2014 was 170 days, rising to 259 days if an insider with access to a…

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Amazon’s £119 Fire tablet for kids arrives in the UK on June 18

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 9:26 am
Posted In: amazon, Apps, Around the Web, Fire Tablet, Gadgets, kids, UK

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Amazon has launched a new tablet and all-you-can-eat content subscription service for kids in the UK today. Priced at £119 (about $180), the Fire HD Kids Edition is a fully-featured 6-inch tablet surrounded by a child-proof case. It runs Amazon’s fork of Android as seen on the Fire Phone, is powered by a quad-core 1.5Ghz processor and is available in 8GB and 16GB variants. The company’s new inappropriately named Fire for Kids Unlimited service brings a range of books, videos, educational apps and games suitable for children aged 3-10 years. Fire for Kids Unlimited includes content featuring characters like Thomas &…

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A bug causes Skype to endlessly crash if your friends send a single message

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 9:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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If the discovery of a bug that crashes iPhones with a simple string of characters wasn’t enough for you to deal with, Skype is being affected by a similar problem. Users that receive a message containing “http://:” are unable to open Skype, with the app instantly crashing upon opening on Android, iOS and Windows devices. If you receive the message, there’s no way to fix it yourself outside of asking the person who sent you the message to delete it, then to reinstall an older version of the app, which is only possible on Windows. We’ve asked Microsoft for comment and…

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