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IDC Has Released Its Predictions for The IT Industry in 2014
Dec 12, 2013IDC has released its predictions for the IT industry in 2014, and said it believes that Middle East spending will exceed $32 billion in the coming year. It predicts that the region will make a 7.3 percent year-on-year growth, one of the ...
Tags: It Predictions, Computer
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Kaspersky Lab Has Revealed Research Results That Show an Increase in Malware
Nov 6, 2013Kaspersky Lab has revealed research results that show an increase in malware in the Middle East. The data, provided by Kaspersky Security Network, reveals that The UAE had the highest rate of attacks in the region, suffering 34% of all ...
Tags: Computer Products, Kaspersky, software
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A Hacker Has Apparently Taken Down The Virgin Radio Dubai Website
Jun 4, 2013A hacker has apparently taken down the Virgin Radio Dubai website. The hacker, who goes by the username @OxAlien on Twitter, posted up a picture of his screen as he was apparently removing the link to the website on Monday night. The ...
Tags: Virgin Radio Dubai, Database, Hacker
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Jeremy Hammond Pleaded Guilty to The Charges and Now Faces 10 Years in Jail
May 30, 2013Jeremy Hammond, the hacker accused of breaking into global foreign-intelligence company Stratfor's systems and stealing information later posted to Wikileaks, has pleaded guilty to the charges and now faces 10 years in jail. Caught in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Lulzsec Has Had His Sentence Postponed in Order to Continue Working with The FBI
Feb 27, 2013The founder of hacking group Lulzsec, Sabu, has had his sentence postponed in order to continue working with the FBI. Sabu - real name Hector Xavier Monsegur - encouraged Lulzsec members to hack websites including those of the CIA, ...
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Any Bank, Hospital or Energy Provider to Inform Regulators Under New EU Proposals
Feb 17, 2013Any bank, hospital or energy provider that suffers a cyber-attack would have to inform regulators under new EU proposals announced today. Launched in Brussels by European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes, ...
Tags: cyber-attack, EU proposals, Cybercrime
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Media Organisations and Journalists Are Coming Under Increasingly Regular Cyber-Attacks
Feb 17, 2013Media organisations and journalists are coming under increasingly regular cyber-attacks, with hacking being used as a tool to censor the press. "We have seen distributed denial of service attacks against individual journalists and against ...
Tags: cyber-attacks, hacks, cyber security
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Major Malware Trend Will Be The Appearance of More Stuxnet and Flame-Style 'Cyber Weapons'
Feb 6, 2013This year's major malware trend will be the appearance of more Stuxnet and Flame-style ‘cyber weapons', internet security firm AVG's CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, has revealed to Computing. "Stuxnet and Flame have already happened, and ...
Tags: Stuxnet, Flame-Like Malware Attacks, Computer Products
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Authentication Attacks and "Hacktivism" Will Continue to Pose a Threat to Organisations
Jan 24, 2013According to a new data breach report from Verizon, authentication attacks and “hacktivism” will continue to pose a threat to organisations in 2013. The newly released Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report noted that while ...
Tags: Verizon, authentication attacks, hacktivism
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Nine out of 10 Companies 'not Vulnerable' to Cyber Attack - or So They Say
Jan 11, 2013Nine out of 10 companies do not believe that they are vulnerable to hackers,despite the fact that half have faced a"security incident"in the past year. That is the conclusion of a report into computer security by consultants Deloitte ...
Tags: Nine out of 10 companies not vulnerable, security incident
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2012 Turned out to Be a Relatively Uneventful Year
Jan 7, 2013For all the apocalyptic prognostications, 2012 turned out to be a relatively uneventful year from an information security standpoint. A cyber Pearl Harbor did not happen. Stuxnet and its kin did not take out any power grids or shut down ...
Tags: apocalyptic prognostications, 2012, information security, cyber
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Traditional News Companies and Other Websites Are Preparing for a Flood of Web Traffic
Jan 4, 2013Network World-Traditional news companies and other websites covering this year's presidential election are preparing for a flood of Web traffic over the coming months,and not just from political junkies.Politically motivated hactivist ...
Tags: media sites, hactivist attacks
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It Is Time for It Security Experts to Reflect on What Has Been
Dec 28, 2012An increase in hacktivism and a greater prevalence of Advanced Evasion Techniques will form part of the backdrop of IT security in 2013, according to Stonesoft With 2013 just around the corner, it is time for IT security experts to reflect ...
Tags: Stonesoft, cyber threats, Evasion Techniques, IT security
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The Third in a Series of Interviews with C-Level Executives Responsible for Cyber Security
Dec 26, 2012This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
Tags: interviews, cyber security, privacy, business, government, web security
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Ghost Shell Group Published The Log-in Details From 1.6 Million Accounts
Dec 21, 2012The Ghost Shell group, an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective has published the log-in details from 1.6 million accounts. The credentials were stolen from a series of hack attacks on Nasa, the FBI, the European Space Agency and ...