Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorized changes to ...
A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The last person to have his alleged private information exposed on the site was CIA director ...
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The former chief scientist at a Kentucky defense contractor has been sentenced to a year in prison for buying pirated software from Russian and Chinese hackers and using it to design components for military helicopters. Wronald Best, 55, ...
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Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker who was convicted last November of illegally accessing emails and other data belonging to 120,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's networks is seeking leniency in his sentencing from the court. In a memo filed ...
Google has fully implemented a security feature that ensures a person looking up a website isn't inadvertently directed to a fake one. The Internet company has run its own free public Domain Name System (DNS) lookup service, called Public ...
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Hackers can influence real-time traffic-flow-analysis systems to make people drive into traffic jams or to keep roads clear in areas where a lot of people use Google or Waze navigation systems, a German researcher demonstrated at BlackHat ...
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Microsoft later today will reverse a months-long practice in how Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) handles Adobe's Flash Player on Windows 8's and Windows RT's Modern user interfaces. The change will be pushed to users along with the March ...
Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos designed to help webmasters identify, diagnose and ...
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Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos designed to help webmasters identify, diagnose and ...
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China has offered to open discussions with the US on the issue of cyber security, following tit-for-tat accusations by both sides of hacking and stealing data from government and corporate websites. The Chinese offer follows comments by ...
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Burger King saw a surprising upside after its Twitter stream was recently compromised: Tens of thousands of people began following its account. The company had about 50,000 followers before the hack, but that number shot up to more than ...
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Reporters Without Borders named five countries that regularly spy on journalists and dissidents, a practice the group contends is made possible with advanced technology from private companies. The Paris-based group, which is an ...
Pegasystems has partnered with Vormetric to boost its cloud security following a number of hacking attacks on high profile websites. There have been no attacks on Pegasystems, which is a provider of business process management (BPM) and ...
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The Reserve Bank has denied reports that its computer systems or networks have been compromised by hackers, saying that at no point has any data or information been lost or its systems corrupted. Responding to a report in yesterday's ...
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The Reserve Bank of Australia's computer systems have fallen victim to cyber hacking in at least two highly sophisticated online attacks. Documents released by the RBA show that the central bank was the victim of a "highly targeted" email ...
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