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Mozilla starts crowdsourcing data to help devices find your location without GPS

29

Oct

2013

Mozillas got a full plate between browsers, Firefox OS and a mess of other projects, but that hasnt stopped it from starting a new initiative. The software community has set up the experimental Mozilla Location Service to collect crowdsourced geolocation data from public WiFi networks and cellular towers. According to the outfit, devices with weak […]

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Blocking a Fake “Browser Update” Site

15

Oct

2013

[A post from our internal blog last week, the roll-out of which was delayed due a short family vacation… 🙂 The junk site is still on line, and the ad networks are still feeding it traffic, so it’s worth a public run. –C.L.]For the last two weeks (since 10/03), WebPulse has been seeing requests […]

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First Widespread Virus Cross-infection

23

Jul

2013

After being in oblivion for a while, the Xpiro family of file infectors is back with a bang-and this time with some notorious capabilities. Not only does the new variant infect 32-bit files, it also has broadened its scope of infection to 64-bit files. The infections are cross-platform (a 32-bit Xpiro variant can infect a […]

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