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Amazon patents tech that could thwart comparison shopping in its own stores

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 03:58:02 +0000

Amazon does not want you comparison shopping its competition. In a newly revealed patent, the firm has technology that will thwart your attempts to comparison shop online when in its retail stores. Read more...

New PayPal key to help thwart phishers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:11:12 +0000

Over the next few months, Ebay will be offering its PayPal users a new tool in the fight against phishers: a $5 security key. The security key is actually a small electronic device, designed to... Read more...

eBay aims to thwart phishing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:05:54 +0000

eBay is rolling out a private messaging service to customers to make it easier to distinguish official announcements from fraudulent 'phishing' emails. The service - dubbed My Messages - offers a read-only inbox for logged-in... Read more...

Rivals thwart Nokia's bid for Symbian control

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 19:49:46 +0000

Nokia's attempt to win a majority stake in Symbian has been blocked by three fellow shareholders that have increased their holdings in the company. Symbian announced Wednesday that Panasonic, Sony Ericsson and... Read more...

Apache patch to thwart DoS attack

Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:29:19 +0000

The Apache Software Foundation has released a patch for its Apache 2.0 HTTP Server to thwart a "significant" denial-of-service vulnerability. Apache, which makes the popular open-source Web server application, released version 2.0.45 to... Read more...

Xbox changes to thwart modders

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 07:21:58 +0000

Microsoft has made some modifications to the internal design of Xbox in the name of security, the most immediate upshot being apparently that existing mod chips won't work with the new design. According to a... Read more...

Hacktivismo attempting to thwart authoritarian web censorship

Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:48:55 +0000

The hacker group Hacktivismo have announced that they are releasing software which will allow people to surf anonymously without governments and law enforcement limiting their activities. The new program, called Camera/Shy, was released on Saturday... Read more...