Новости за 30.10.2015

UK police have arrested a second teenager in their investigation of an attack on the website of telecommunications operator TalkTalk that may have exposed the personal data of millions of customers.

If you pirated Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, Microsoft wants to welcome you back—all is forgiven. 

Beware the shambling undead

America has an obsession with zombies. No, not the glut of undead-focused flicks like World War Z, The Walking Dead, or Z Nation (why do I still watch that show?), but the refusal to give up on technology that died long ago. These technological zombies persist far beyond their end-of-life, shuffling forward with us into the future, groaning under the weight of their own obsolescence.

Tremble, mortals! Halloween is upon us. Ghosts, ghouls, and other undesirable creatures are prepared to slink out of their domains and into ours—it’s said that even the dead can rise on Halloween.

Microsoft's rollout of its Surface Book line of Windows laptops looks like a clear shot at Apple and a move by the company to insulate itself from trouble down the road should any of its big OEM partners bail on Windows 10 hardware.

Jun Feng, a defendant in a criminal case, has entered a guilty plea, removing pressure from a New York court to decide quickly whether Apple is required to aid investigators by bypassing his iPhone 5s passcode.

Just one cybercriminal group may be collecting the revenue from Cryptowall 3.0, a malicious program that infects computers, encrypts files and demands a ransom, according to a new study released on Thursday.

Microsoft really wants people to get on the Windows 10 bandwagon, so much so that the company plans to start automatically downloading its new operating system to some users' computers next year.