Microsoft piles on the security features in a bid to lure government agencies over to the Windows Phone 8.1 camp.

IBM announced in June that it was opening two new SoftLayer-based cloud data centers for U.S. government workloads. Anne Altman, general manager of IBM's US Federal division, said in a statement that her company "designed these centers with government clients' needs in mind, investing in added security features and redundancies to provide a high level of availability."

In some countries, the long rise in IQ scores has come to a halt, and there are even signs of a decline. The reason, according to a few researchers, is that improving social conditions have obscured an underlying decline in our genetic potential. Perhaps we are evolving to be stupid after all.

A quarantine centre for suspected Ebola patients in the Liberian capital Monrovia has been attacked and looted by protesters, police say.

A senior police officer said blood-stained mattresses, beddings and medical equipment were taken from the centre.

"This is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen in my life", he said.

For starters, it’s unlikely you’ll have the just-right experience an employer is looking for. So, what happens when entry-level jobs ask for relevant work experience, and you simply don’t have any?

Several LinkedIn Influencers weighed in the topic this week, with insights on how to optimize a lack of work experience — and get hired fast.

Marin County Sheriff's Lt Keith Boyd said Williams, 63, had been treated for depression and killed himself by hanging.

In the past Williams had talked, and even joked, about his struggles with alcohol and drugs. His representative said on Monday he had also been "battling severe depression".

The company, best known for its FarmVille game on Facebook, has lost 57 million monthly active users since the same quarter last year, dropping to 130 million from 187 million farm fiddlers.

The social gaming company made a net loss in the second quarter of $62.5m, compared to a $16m loss in the same quarter last year and a $61m in the first quarter of 2014. The company’s shares had dropped 7.5 per cent in pre-market trading to $2.70 at the time of writing.

The principal cast of US sitcom The Big Bang Theory have tripled their pay-packets, negotiating reported salaries of $1m (£600,000) per episode after organising a walk-out during the first week of production.

The Big Bang Theory reached the syndication threshold in 2011, and it is consistently the most-watched re-run on US television. Not only that, but when the repeats started screening on the TBS network, viewing figures for the new episodes jumped by 21%.

While Backoff is only now being publicly disclosed, it has already had a large impact. Sigler noted that Trustwave is currently working on four post-breach forensics investigations that involve the Backoff malware. Across all four, nearly 600 businesses have been infected, and he expects more to come in.

In a brute-force attack, the hacker repeatedly tries username and password combinations until they gain access. According to US-CERT, as of July 31, antivirus technologies were not detecting Backoff, though that is now likely to change, thanks to the advisory.

An apparent flaw that lets users add any amount of money onto already processed PayPal transactions is a feature, not a bug, according to the payments giant.

"This proof of concept transfers only one Euro more than the confirmed amount, but I also tried with 200 Euros and it works just the same."

The company did not say if it plans to cap the rate or otherwise reduce the potential impact of the fraud.

Back in March of last year, we were somewhat disturbed by UPS agreeing to forfeit $40 million to the US government for shipping drugs from "illegal internet pharmacies." Not that such drugs or pharmacies should be legal (that's a whole different discussion), but it's insane to pin the blame for the shipments on the shipping company, whose sole job is to get packages from point A to point B.

FedEx's job is to deliver packages, not examine everything inside those packages to make sure they're legal.