IDG News Service - Wells Fargo's website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days. Wells Fargo ...
Tags: site outage, hacker group, cyberattacks, Google services
IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...
Tags: IETF, HTTP standard, Internet Engineering, Web, Google
Google said Tuesday it is starting to connect homes in Kansas City, Kan., to its Google Fiber broadband service. The installation will have two phases, starting with pulling fiber-optic cables from the street to the side of the home, and ...
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A new cyberlaw issued by the President of the United Arab Emirates this week provides for the imprisonment of political dissidents, according to information on the law from the government-run Emirates News Agency, also known as WAM ...
Tags: cyberlaw, New UAE, law, political dissent
DENVER, CO, July 28, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Computer hackers are unauthorized users who break into computer systems in order to steal, change or destroy information, often by installing dangerous malware without your knowledge or ...
Tags: Computer hackers, computer systems, computer security, Software, iComputer
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 ...
Tags: Adobe, encrypted passwords, company database, Virus
Some very techie words have been very popular this year. And just to prove it, the Oxford American Dictionaries announced its Word of the Year, along with a techy-flavored list of runner-ups this week. So, drum roll, please. The Word of ...
Tags: techie words, tech terms, contenders, 2012
IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
Tags: servers, hosting service, core routing system, controversial websites
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN body that has played a standards-setting role for global telecommunication networks over the decades, Wednesday night suffered a website attack that severely disrupted a conference to ...
Tags: ITU, global telecommunication, networks, Website Cyberattack
IDG News Service-Chinese regulators are cracking down on video and films made by the nation's Internet firms with new measures meant to encourage the production of more positive programs. On Monday,China's State Administration of Radio ...
Tags: China, videos on Internet, regulations
A team of researchers has created a proof-of-concept piece of malware that can give attackers control of USB smart card readers attached to an infected Windows computer over the Internet. The malware installs a special driver on the ...
Tags: malware, USB, smart card readers, infected Windows computer, Internet
MOUNT HOLLY, NJ, August 23, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MARK SYSTEMS is pleased to announce that Ronald S. Olson will be joining the company effective September 10th as a Senior Consultant specializing in implementation processes and ...
Tags: Ronald Olson, Mark Systems, OMware, construction software
Google has ended a free version of its Google Apps online application suite for small businesses, saying it wants to provide a stronger and more uniform experience to users. The Internet giant said Thursday in a blog post that now even ...
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ATLANTA, GA, July 11, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Atlanta, GA July 9, 2012 - Tulix Systems, Inc. EVP, Dr. Nino Doijashvili announced the company continues to place a major emphasis on its burgeoning Content Delivery Network services to its ...
Tags: CDN Services, Tulix Systems, digital application service, Tulix solutions
IDG News Service - Researchers from security vendor AlienVault have identified a variant of a recently discovered Internet Explorer exploit that is used to infect targeted computers with the PlugX remote access Trojan (RAT) program. The ...
Tags: IE, malware, Internet Explorer, website