This week’s edition of IT hiccups, snarls, and general foul-ups begins with the surprising announcement last Thursday by U.S. District Judge James V. Selna who, according to Bloomberg News, issued an order stopping lawsuits into ...
New attack campaigns have infected point-of-sale (PoS) systems around the world with sophisticated malware designed to steal payment card and transaction data. Researchers from security firm Arbor Networks found two servers that were used ...
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Cybercriminals are increasingly using the “Blackshades” malware program whose source code was leaked three years ago, according to an analysis by Symantec. Blackshades, which Symantec identifies as “W32.Shadesrat,” ...
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Conventional third party controls are no longer sufficient to cover the ever-expanding attack surface presented by web and mobile applications developed by service vendors and/or commercial software providers. The current third party ...
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Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel's Itanium architecture to x86. HP's latest and perhaps biggest move ...
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Adobe, known for its Reader and Acrobat software, has confirmed that the cyber attack it recently suffered impacted 38 million users - more than 10 times the 2.9 million customers it had said were affected initially. The attack, which the ...
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Google said Wednesday it plans to reward developers for developing proactive security improvements for some of the most widely used open-source software programs. The program aims to “improve the security of key third-party software ...
Windows developers are feeling the demand for mobile apps, but they say their current tools and skills are preventing them from delivering those apps. Adding to the pressure, the demand for mobile apps is layered upon the expectation that ...
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Window's new Phone App Studio service has received 30,000 applications in the first 48 hours following its announcement. By the end of last week, the service had received a demand far greater than Microsoft expected, and the company had ...
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Both sets of technologies recognize the growing use of the browser for richer interactions between users and services, over and above the viewing of static Web pages. “We still use the browser language, although most of what people ...
Hoping to generate more apps for its mobile platform, Microsoft has launched an online tool that could allow even non-developers to create new programs for Windows Phone 8. The tool, called Windows Phone App Studio, is free to use and in ...
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Security researchers from Polish vulnerability research firm Security Explorations claim to have identified a new vulnerability in Java 7 that could allow attackers to bypass the software's security sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the ...
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With the previously $40,000 Carberp Trojan's source code now freely available, experts expect exceptionally destructive variants of the malware to flow onto the Internet. Carberp-based malware is expected to take advantage of the bootkit ...
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The source code for the Carberp financial malware has been leaked online, increasing the risk that other cybercriminals will create their own variants based on it, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm ...
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Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
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