It's hard to hear the phrases, "Your mission, should you decide to accept it" or "this tape will self-destruct in five seconds" without bringing to mind Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt (or for the older readers, Dan Briggs or Jim Phelps) of the ...
Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year. The data ...
The founder of hacking group Lulzsec, Sabu, has had his sentence postponed in order to continue working with the FBI. Sabu - real name Hector Xavier Monsegur - encouraged Lulzsec members to hack websites including those of the CIA, ...
Microsoft has confirmed that it's the latest among a number of high-profile technology and internet firms to have been hit by a cyber attack. A blog posted on Friday by Microsoft security manager Matt Thomlinson revealed: Java is a ...
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Forget fumbling with cash and credit cards; smartphones have long been seen as a way to make in store purchases faster and easier. But several challenges need to be overcome before the technology takes off. The field of mobile payments ...
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Any bank, hospital or energy provider that suffers a cyber-attack would have to inform regulators under new EU proposals announced today. Launched in Brussels by European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes, ...
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American Express (Amex) has synced with Twitter to enable its cardholders to tweet specific hashtags to purchase products online. Amex's technology, dubbed Card Sync, had initially been launched in March 2012 to deliver couponless savings ...
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Computer security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the European Union's proposed computer security directive which, he says, represents "yet another unfortunate step towards the militarisation of cyberspace". EU security ...
Adobe has released an emergency patch to fix at least two zero-day vulnerabilities being used to install malware in its Flash Player software that could allow attackers to control affected systems. Hackers had exploited security loopholes ...
February 1, 2013 -- Canada Credit Fix, Canada’s leading credit restoration and debt settlement specialists, has recently offered its services to the Canadian government in response to a recent loss of student loans data. The loss of ...
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Professional liability insurance services provider AmerInst has added security incident and identification theft extension endorsement to its Protexure Accountants' professional liability insurance program. AmerInst Professional Services ...
A quarter of a million Twitter accounts have been compromised by hackers, according to the social network. This follows similar attacks on the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in the last two weeks. Analysis: Why Twitter may ...
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Says they address 'advanced' malware threats Cybersecurity software and appliance vendor Sourcefire announced it has expanded its malware protection offerings to include new Incident Response Professional Services that it says assist ...
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Nine out of 10 companies do not believe that they are vulnerable to hackers,despite the fact that half have faced a"security incident"in the past year. That is the conclusion of a report into computer security by consultants Deloitte ...
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IDG News Service - Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate ...
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