The epidemic of sleeplessness that haunts Americans is vividly sketched in these survey findings. Consumers are nodding off or falling sound asleep in all sorts of places: In the movie theater, at work, watching their kids, at parties, in ...
The passwords of about 250,000 Twitter users were stolen in a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated ...
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Mintel has launched Mintel Futures—a unique approach to trend forecasting enabling a longer term, strategic outlook—from the global analyst team at Mintel. Stemming from a set of six key trends, Mintel has identified the ...
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Following on from last year’s Flashback Trojan incident, which saw 600,000 Mac users infected with malware through a Java loophole, AnchorFree has warned Mac users that the worst is still to come. “The Flashback outbreak was a ...
Even after Oracle patched critical Java vulnerabilities on Monday, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) continued urging users to disable Java browser plug-ins. "Due to the number and severity of this and prior Java ...
Even though today is National Sleep Day, an alarming new report finds many people are falling asleep behind the wheel on a consistent basis. Yes, a lack of sleep is making our roads dangerous. The Center for Disease Control and ...
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A group of hackers on Thursday published a list of over 453,000 log-in credentials on the Internet that were allegedly stolen from a database associated with an unnamed Yahoo service. The group of hackers calls itself "the D33Ds Company" ...
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Mobility and security hardly go hand-in-hand. But not at the Essar Group. In fact, for this Indian, multinational conglomerate, security was the stepping stone to enterprise mobility and a vibrant BYOD environment. What got the ball ...
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International oil company Saudi Aramco claims to be over a cyber attack on 15 August and maintains that oil production was not disrupted. The company said around 30,000 workstation computers that were hit by a virus attack are back ...
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IT security professionals need to transform the profession if they are to persuade business they are doing a good job, according to Mark Brown, director of information security at Ernst & Young. “Most organisations think information ...
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Cybergeddon, a complete take-down of the internet, is undoubtedly within the power of some nation states, but is unlikely, say security industry experts. Bringing down the internet would not be in anyone’s interest, said Fred Piper, ...
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Security researchers disclosed critical vulnerabilities in routers from Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei at the Defcon hackers conference on Sunday. The vulnerabilities -- a session hijack, a heap ...
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Microsoft has uncovered a vulnerability in the PC supply chain that allows hackers to pre-install malware-infected copies of Windows onto new machines. As a result, the company has received approval from a federal court to strangle a ...
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As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware. According to a group of security experts formed to combat DNSChanger, between a ...
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A hacker group has posted the details of 453,000 Yahoo customers online, according to reports. According to a report on technology news website Ars Technica, the hackers posted login details of the user accounts they claim to have ...
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