Adobe has been forced to investigate reports of a zero-day security flaw in its Reader and Acrobat software that leaves users vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The exploit was discovered by researchers at network security firm FireEye, who ...
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Following on from last year’s Flashback Trojan incident, which saw 600,000 Mac users infected with malware through a Java loophole, AnchorFree has warned Mac users that the worst is still to come. “The Flashback outbreak was a ...
Ontario’s recent change to make Workplace Safety and Insurance Board coverage mandatory in the construction industry is an important component in combating the pervasive underground economy, says the Ontario Construction Secretariat. ...
Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions -- thought by some to be the work of Iran -- ...
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Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions — thought by some to be the work of ...
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January 10,2013-Ontario's recent change to make Workplace Safety&Insurance Board(WSIB)coverage mandatory in the construction industry is an important component"in combating the pervasive underground economy",says the Ontario Construction ...
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Rakuten Play.com is preparing to shut down its retail business. The closure of the Jersey tax loophole last year has been blamed for the end of the online retailer as we know it. Play.com has confirmed it will become a ...
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Play.com has had to finally admit defeat in the face of last year's Jersey VAT loophole closure and announce the end of its direct product retail service. Founded in 1998 as the dotcom and e-commerce boom took hold, Play.com's waning ...
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Researchers in Singapore and Norway have teamed up to create a device that can crack quantum key distribution(QKD),a technique for securing digital communication originally designed to foil hackers. QKD allows two remote parties to ...
Computerworld - U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is chair of the Senate's Immigration, Refugees and Border Security subcommittee, is introducing his own STEM visa bill to challenge a similar Republican bill in the House. Schumer's ...
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IDG News Service-The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has proposed holding an old-fashioned raffle to determine which applications for new top-level domains should be handled first.To make the lottery legal,the ...
Infoworld - Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same. Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, ...
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A recent study by four UCLA documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- that users can be charged for wireless data they never received. In the most extreme case of overcharging, an unnamed carrier charged the ...
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Websites,mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations,including getting a parent's permission before collecting geo-location information and photographs from kids,under ...
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A "huge loophole" is being carved in the European Union's upcoming data protection regulation, according Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge in England. The way the current draft of the law ...
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