Cross-site scripting(XSS)attacks remain the top threat to web applications,databases and websites,an analysis of 15 million cyber attacks in the third quarter of 2012 has revealed. Other top attack techniques are directory traversals,SQL ...
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IDG News Service-Citrix Systems is giving back to IT departments some control over personal cloud-based storage with ShareFile StorageZones,which allows user content to be stored in enterprises'own data centers,the company announced at the ...
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As it continues to face post-IPO monetisation challenges,Facebook has now taken the step to allow ordinary users the opportunity of paying to promote their own posts on the social networking site. Similar to a scheme launched in May that ...
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Samsung is facing calls to issue a security update for the Galaxy S3 smartphone after it was discovered that the device can be reset by code hidden in a web page. German security researchers have demonstrated how an 11-character code can ...
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A flaw found in Apple's iPhone that can allow text messages to sidestep Apple's safeguard is"severe",according to an iPhone security researcher. In a blog post,the researcher,named Pod2g,said that the issue could mean that cyber criminals ...
Tags: iPhone SMS security flaw, iPhone security researcher, blog post Pod2g
Google disclosed Friday in an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office that it had not yet deleted all user data collected by its Street View vehicles, as it had agreed to more than 18 months ago. The Street View vehicles ...
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IDG News Service - Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made more than 1.3 million requests for cellphone records in 2011, according to carriers' responses to a congressman's investigation. Those requests included ...
Tags: Enforcement, Mobile, U.S.