Security experts believe passwords offer little or no protection from unauthorised access to corporate IT systems and online accounts, and now Intel is working on an alternative. An increasing number of data breaches are being blamed on ...
Tags: Intel, unauthorised access, IT systems, online accounts
European institutions on Wednesday beefed up cybersecurity efforts by establishing a permanent Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-EU). The decision was made following a one-year test for the team,which works closely with the internal ...
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The website of Domino's Pizza India was hacked,but customers'information was not compromised,the local franchisee Jubilant FoodWorks said on Wednesday. Personal information including names,phone numbers,email addresses,passwords and city ...
Tags: Domino, Turkish hacker group, India, security breach
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers are common in enterprise networks to offer centralized authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) for access control. But RADIUS servers can also be useful in small and ...
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GoDaddy restored some services on Monday as the company battled online attacks that severely impacted its hosting and domain-name registration operations. "We're still working," the company wrote on Twitter. "Getting closer to normal. ...
The CEO of a small Florida publishing company has suggested that it was the source of a leak of one-million-plus Apple users'personal details,which hacking group Anonymous had attributed to the compromised Dell laptop of FBI agent ...
The U.K.'s Home Office will decide by Oct. 16 whether to block the extradition to the U.S. of Gary McKinnon, who has admitted to hacking into U.S. government computers, McKinnon's attorney said on Thursday. McKinnon, 46, of north London, ...
Tags: U.K.'s Home Office, NASA Hacker Extradition, cyberwarfare, USA
The Hertfordshire Police website has been hacked by a supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, with data about members of the force published online. Information about officers in Hertfordshire's Safer Neighbourhood Teams, including ...
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A 20-year-old man surrendered to FBI agents on Tuesday for his alleged hacking of Sony Pictures, one of a wave of attacks executed last year by the hacking collective LulzSec. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, was indicted by a ...
Open source blogging tool and content management system WordPress has boosted its security by incorporating the Mydigipass authentication service into its platform. This means owners of the 54 million web and blog sites that have been ...
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Tesco.com,one of the biggest retail websites in the UK,is to be asked to explain the alleged poor security practices of its website to the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). The inquiry follows investigations by security ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - Apple's iCloud service, which was recently forced upon former-users of mac.com (including myself), has not proven to be a shiny seamless service. Many tech journos complain that iCloud doesn't represent the ...
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Infoworld - When it comes to IT security, FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) is more than just the tool of overhyping vendors hoping to sell their next big thing. It is the reality that seasoned IT security pros live in, thanks in large ...
Tags: IT security, FUD, Paul Ferguson, antivirus scanner
Battle.net, the service that hosts videogames company Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, has come under attack from hackers, according to a security update on the game's website. Mike Morhaime, president and ...
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A new virus potentially from the same group that developed Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame has been uncovered by anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs. Called 'Gauss', the malware 'spies' on financial transactions, according to the company, ...
Tags: Kaspersky Labs, Financial, Malware