Only around 13% of organisations are aware that printers and multi-function devices represent a threat to information security, Xerox has claimed. "Many organisations do not even realise that these devices are connected to the internet," ...
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Michael Ossmann,co-founder of Great Scott Gadgets,is developing HackRF,a software-defined radio(SDR)that lets you switch between radio frequencies on the fly. Most wireless gadgets,like the 3G antenna in a phone,operate using a fixed ...
Adobe has fixed six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player that could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code, via the release of version 11.6.8.638 of the software. Five of the patched flaws are buffer ...
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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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IDG News Service-The famed iPhone hacker"Comex,"who engineered ways to hack Apple's mobile operating system,is no longer doing work for the company,according to Twitter postings. "So...no point in delaying.As of last week,after about 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-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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Cloud computing is an opportunity information security professionals should not miss,according to Philippe Courtot,chairman and CEO of security company Qualys. "This is a fantastic and opportunity to sit down with the CIO and the ...
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Computerworld - Google today awarded $60,000 to a security researcher who cracked Chrome at the search firm's second "Pwnium" hacking contest. The researcher, a teenager who goes by the nickname "Pinkie Pie," was a returning winner: Last ...
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IDG News Service - Mozilla Firefox 16 was released on Tuesday and addresses numerous security vulnerabilities, many of which are rated as critical. The new version of Firefox was accompanied by 14 security advisories, 11 rated as ...
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IDG News Service - Security researcher Felix "FX" Lindner has a more compelling reason to steer clear of routers from Huawei Technologies than fears about its ownership. While the company blasted for its opaque relationship with China's ...
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Cyber crime costs UK organisations an average of £2.1m a year each, according to the 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime study by the Ponemon Institute. The cost of attacks on UK organisations range between £400,000 and £7.7m, the ...
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Any organisations that have not yet replaced outdated security certificates will have to act quickly to meet the Microsoft deadline. From 9 October, Microsoft systems will require all public key infrastructure (PKI) digital certificates ...
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Romanian national Manole Razvan Cernaianu,known online as TinKode,received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle,NASA,the U.S.Army and the U.S.Department of Defense and was ordered to pay ...
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Introduction The market for OLEDs has witnessed several advancements in the last 18 months, thus providing the belief to the industry that OLEDs will finally realize their potential. Full-color AMOLED displays have now become an element ...
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