Computerworld - Burlington, Wash. officials have notified hundreds of employees and residents that their bank account information was compromised last week when hackers broke into city systems and stole more than $400,000 from a city ...
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IDG News Service-Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia is investigating claims that hackers have compromised its online stores as part of a larger attack that affected several of its websites. On Friday,a hacker group calling itself Team ...
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Illinois has become the third state in the country to pass a law prohibiting companies from asking employees and job candidates for usernames and passwords to their social media accounts. Illinois Gov.Patrick Quinn signed the bill ...
Adobe said Wednesday it is investigating the release of 230 names, email addresses and encrypted passwords claimed to have been stolen from a company database. The information was released on Tuesday on Pastebin by a self-proclaimed ...
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Google has announced that it will alert users if they are being targeted by suspected state-sponsored attacks. The US-based internet firm says it will bring up a banner highlighting the danger when users are logged into their Google ...
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Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen hospital in Austria has shortened application log-in and log-out times,as well as securing password management,after deploying Imprivata in its VMware environment. Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen is the fifth-largest ...
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Online dating site eHarmony has also been hit by the theft of millions of passwords,some of which professional networking site LinkedIn confirmed corresponded to members'accounts. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million ...
Malware attacks seem to be evolving. The traditional viruses, Trojan horses, botnets and phishing attacks are still a threat, but the next generation malware takes insidious to a whole new level. Thankfully, theres a silver lining as well. ...
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More than one in four Wi-Fi networks in London are poorly secured or not secured at all, a scanning experiment by security firm Sophos has revealed. The experiment was conducted over two days by the firm’s director of technology ...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance has announced that it is teaming up with the Small Cell Forum to deepen integration between Wi-Fi hotspots and licensed small cells. A number of companies already manufacture small cells that incorporate ...
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Yahoo today said it has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one of its many services. The company also provided more information about whose passwords had been pilfered. "We have...now fixed ...
A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals who are seeking Wall Street jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job ...
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Mozilla re-released Firefox 16 today after pulling the browser from distribution Wednesday when one of its developers found a critical bug that could be used by attackers to hijack machines. At around 2:30 p.m. ET, Mozilla turned on its ...
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A hacker in Egypt has released vague details of three vulnerabilities he claims to have found within Yahoo's website, the second time in two months he's found problems in the website of a major technology company. The hacker, who calls ...
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A hacker in Egypt has released vague details of three vulnerabilities he claims to have found within Yahoo's website, the second time in two months he's found problems in the website of a major technology company. The hacker, who calls ...
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