According to a pair of recently released reports, demand for information security experts in the United States is outstripping the available supply by a widening margin. A report from Burning Glass Technologies, which develops ...
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The London Olympics faced six major cyber attacks during the Games out of some 165 million individual security-related "events" identified by the IT team put together by Gary Pennell, the CIO of the London 2012 Olympics. Cloud was a ...
The company is the latest to be attacked after recent cyber attacks on Apple, Facebook and Twitter. Evernote's security team discovered suspicious activity in its network which attempted to access secure areas of its service. Evernote ...
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In a move to counter recent reports claiming that a special unit in the Chinese Army is behind repeated cyber attacks on U.S. institutions, the nation Thursday claimed its military and defence ministries websites are routinely hacked from ...
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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Microsoft last week disclosed that it recently fell victim to the same type of cyber attack that targeted Apple and Facebook. “During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, ...
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"As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion," Trustworthy Computing team general manager Matt Thomlinson said in a blog post. "During our investigation, we found ...
The "scenes of cyber crimes" are being disrupted by organisations and IT professionals that do not know how to respond to a cyber attack, undermining criminal investigations before they have even started. That is one of the warnings of ...
China's Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday refuted the accusations that the nation's military supports cyberespionage, and said a recent security report backing the claims used scientifically flawed evidence. The ministry made the ...
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China’s Ministry of National Defence on Wednesday denied recent accusations that the nation’s military supports cyber espionage, saying that a security report backing the claims used scientifically flawed evidence. The ...
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Oxford University has revealed it suspended use of Google Docs on 14 February following a sustained influx of phishing attacks on the network. The attacks, designed to acquire login details for university systems in order to send spam ...
Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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BIG business is being targeted by cyber-criminals in "ransomware" attacks, threatening deletion or freezing of crucial business files unless money is paid. A new national survey of Australian big business reports that in September last ...
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A report released National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber attacks over the next 20 years. The UK was hit by over 40 million cyber attacks in 2011 ...
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Cyber attacks in the UK cost the country up to 27bn each year. A report by the National Audit Office warned that the IT skills shortage in Britain could make it vulnerable against cyber attacks for the next 20 years. The UK suffered ...
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