Sony pressed Netflix for increased “geofiltering” control over its customers to prevent the practice, including restricting payment methods for the service to ways that would allow screening for customers living outside countries where Netflix had contractual rights.

"This is in effect another form of piracy—one semi-sanctioned by Netflix, since they are getting paid by subscribers in territories where Netflix does not have the rights to sell our content."

Although the online store for games, films and TV shows seems to be back up and running once again, visitors to the site were brought to a halt on Sunday night with a message reading, "Page Not Found! It's not you. It's the Internet's fault."

The latest hack comes less than a week after Sony celebrated the 20th birthday of the PlayStation games console.

Her daughter would, despite her protests, simply have to go to school the next day, empty-handed, and face the consequences of forgetting her homework.

"I refuse to be my daughter's school diary through a Whatsapp group, I refuse to be the one doing the homework, I refuse to go back to school and I refuse to be over-protective to the point of taking over her responsibilities"

"I hope this article will make a lot of those parents who do 'everything' for their kids think," one user, 'Tatinati', comments on the blog.

Nearly half (46 percent) of respondents have stored confidential company information on their personal file sharing and sync apps, according to a survey by document management specialist M-Files.

Milliken said the risks to unauthorized and unregulated employee use of file share and sync solutions are significant, which is underscored by the finding that a quarter of employees surveyed said their company has experienced information security breaches, data loss, non-compliance issues, loss of control over documents or other issues from employee use of personal file sharing and sync tools.

Snapchat, known for sending photos that immediately disappear after being viewed, has teamed with payment processing service Square to help users send money to one another.

The move marks Snapchat's latest effort to expand beyond disappearing messages. In the three years since launching, Snapchat has become synonymous with a new breed of social-networking services that focus on simple communication of either a photo or video.

Facebook at Work will look similar to its existing social network, but users will be able to keep their personal profiles separate, the paper says.

They also would be able to chat with colleagues, build professional networks and share documents.

The research focused on ZeroAccess as perhaps the best known click-fraud botnet. Click fraud uses compromised systems to click on advertisements, earning advertising affiliate fees for the criminals operating the botnet. In their study, the researchers were able to identify 54 ad units, or campaigns, related to ZeroAccess which produced about a million fraudulent clicks per day, with a likely value of $100,000.

GCHQ boss Robert Hannigan has warned that US technology companies have become the "command and control" network for terrorists.

He is also unhappy about plans to offer greater encryption for online communications.

As security expert Alan Woodward, who has advised GCHQ in the past, puts it: "If someone encrypts communications, it is difficult to unscramble without the key. The real concern is that the security services will end up blind."

Hacking attacks against organisations promoting democracy in Hong Kong were run using the same infrastructure previously linked to Chinese cyber-espionage attacks, according to new research from security firm FireEye.

It almost goes without saying but the hkgolden,com, nextmedia.com, and appledaily.com.hk websites are blocked by the Great Firewall of China – indicating that authorities in Beijing have found the content hosted on these sites objectionable.

Comcast last week applied for a trademark on the phrase "True Gig" to describe extremely fast Internet service.

Gigabit Internet would make it easier for customers to hit Comcast's 300GB monthly data caps, triggering overage charges. Comcast is testing the caps in some markets and plans to extend them to its whole territory within five years.