//Facebook is in the news this week for experimenting on its users. They manipulated news stories in peoples news feeds to see what the effects were on their posts. Perhaps not surprisingly, the posts reflected the manipulated news feeds positively or negatively. Various European regulatory authorities are looking into this.
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//Microsoft (again) have announced they have improved the encryption for OneDrive and Outlook.com. This means that it’s harder to snoop on the data going to and from these services. MS recently spoke about their intentions to offer better protection against hackers and government snooping – which has got to be a good thing!
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//Microsoft sometimes get bad press for IT Security but these days they are moving against organised cybercrime. Yesterday they took control of a malware ring operating from Kuwait and Algeria which was the first time non-Eastern European counties have been involved.
Microsoft say the 30% of PCs which run their anti-virus software had shown signs of the malware known as Bladabindi and Jenxcus amounting to 7.4 million PCs.
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