IDG News Service-Open and misconfigured DNS(Domain Name System)resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks,according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit,an organization that tracks ...
Tags: DNS, DDoS, Internet, World Hosts Report
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that HP is on solid footing. She emphasized the tech pioneer's commitment to research and development, security ...
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Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states. It a statement Wednesday, the company ...
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First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
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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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Bar chain Novus Leisure has moved its IT infrastructure into the cloud and is benefiting from low costs and scalable IT which has helped it increase bookings by 100%. The company refreshed its customer relationship management(CRM)system ...
Tags: Novus Leisure, refreshed CRM system and website, pre-booked online sales
HSBC has restored its online banking services after a distributed denial of service(DDoS)attack. HSBC said servers had come under a DDoS attack which affected HSBC websites around the world. The DDoS attack on HSBC did not affect any ...
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Swedish file sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has moved into the cloud in order to improve its services, lower costs and evade shut-down from authorities. The BitTorrent site, which had its servers raided by police in 2006, has now ...
Tags: The Pirate Bay, evade shut-down, BitTorrent site, entire infrastructure
Infoworld-In releasing updates to its client and server Ubuntu Linux distributions today,Canonical will enable users to turn off a search option in its client product that has raised some eyebrows over privacy issues.A ...
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IT executives keen to learn how search engine giant Google is running its datacentres or curious to know how users' data – including YouTube videos and Google+ accounts – are stored and secured, now have an opportunity to ...
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IDG News Service-Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the seven petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows,Facebook needs to find cheaper,less power-hungry ...
Tags: Facebook, 'cold Storage', Data, social network
IDG News Service-Distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year,according to researchers from from DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic. Last year such high-bandwidth ...
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A review of disaster recovery capabilities has made multinational specialist recruitment company Hudson more resilient in its day-to-day business. "We have improved Hudson's business continuity by modifying our disaster recovery ...
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Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale. That's some of the speculation swirling inside the company,fueled by reports that Juniper's hired an investment banker to manage bids from potential ...
Tags: layoff, EMC, ISI Group, Juniper, joint venture, Kevin Johnson
British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
Tags: British Gas, 26 IT workstreams, CRM, UK