Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...
Google is rolling out a tool for Apps administrators to search through Gmail logs,the company announced on Tuesday. The feature,available in the Apps control panel,has long been requested by IT administrators of the cloud collaboration ...
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Bank employees, not customers, are now the main target of financial cyber attacks, according to the FBI. In a warning issued earlier this week, it said the latest trend by cybercriminals is to get employee login credentials, using spam ...
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As residents crane their necks skyward this week during their local Fourth of July fireworks displays,they may not realize the degree to which increasingly sophisticated software technology is behind all of the booms,blasts and starbursts. ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to ...
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Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke the certificate next Thursday and will update ...
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Microsoft is set to demonstrate the reasons it believes enterprises need to adopt the new version of its Exchange email server at a conference this week devoted to the product. On Monday, the company focused on security, management and ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8, with the hope of reclaiming a portion of the fast-growing smartphone market. The tech giant has been largely absent from the smartphone market during its most-recent years of explosive growth, but ...
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Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the companies announced this week. Dell’s new vStart for VDI is based on VMware’s View ...
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Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic “live” tile icons in Windows, including in the newly launched Windows 8 OS for PCs and tablets and in the Windows Phone 8 OS for smartphones. ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, claiming that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. “We recently spent time talking with ...
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A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is advising U.S. firms to buy networking gear from other vendors. ...
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Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. “The ability to search for a person by phone number ...
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About a year ago,Xerox told some 600 employees,many of them engineers,that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm. How has that worked out?Neither company is disclosing detail about what's been going on,but ...
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