Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a ...
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As the Senate prepares to take another stab at passing a comprehensive cyber security bill, a new report shows the number of cyber attacks growing dramatically from China. China has accounted for the largest percentage of attacks since ...
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Cloud hosting company FireHost has claimed that cross-site scripting attacks increased by an estimated 160 per cent in the final quarter of 2012. The company claims that it has detected a spike in what it calls a "superfecta" of attempted ...
The secondary sale investment follows after Rakuten led a $100m round last year. According to TechCrunch, the funds from SV Angel will be put towards buying secondary shares in Pinterest. SV angel co-founder, David Lee, told TechCrunch ...
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Emergency Veterinary Hospital / Animal Urgent Care recently launched their new website, designed and developed by Flying Cow Design, a leading web design firm. Based in Menlo Park California, Flying Cow Design has worked with hospitals and ...
Visix, Inc., is now accepting entries for the 2013 Expression Awards. The company launched the annual awards in 2008 to recognize the best content designs from clients using its digital signage software applications. Due to the ...
Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN ...
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A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony $396,000 for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011. The Information Commissioner's Office, a public agency to protect information rights of individuals, ...
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Java's new security settings, designed to block "drive-by" browser attacks, can be bypassed by hackers, a researcher announced Sunday. The news came in the aftermath of several embarrassing "zero-day" vulnerabilities, and a recent ...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that Sony could have prevented being hacked in April 2011. Sony's April 2011 hack of its PlayStation platform saw the personal data of millions of customers put at risk. ...
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Representatives of newly launched file-storage and sharing service Mega addressed some of the concerns raised by security researchers in recent days about the site's architecture and the implementation of its cryptographic features. In a ...
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Governments around the world are requesting more information about internet users than ever before. That's according to statistics released by Google in its latest bi-annual transparency report. In the second half of 2012, the operator ...
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US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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Google's fourth-quarter revenue was up 36% from the previous year, thanks to continued growth in its advertising business. Revenue for the quarter, ended Dec. 31, was $14.42 billion, up from $10.6 billion a year earlier, Google announced ...
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The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, security vendor Avast said on Tuesday. Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, is an ...