Network World-Traditional news companies and other websites covering this year's presidential election are preparing for a flood of Web traffic over the coming months,and not just from political junkies.Politically motivated hactivist ...
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IDG News Service-Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack,Symantec,PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday,a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers,MySQL databases,routers ...
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Pop into your local supermarket and pick up a packet of own label chocolate digestive biscuits. Now carefully inspect the packaging. Across the front and back of the pack you’ll find a raft of information that goes beyond brand ...
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The House Judiciary Committee is moving toward passage of a small portion of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, raising concerns among SOPA opponents. The committee has released a draft bill, called the Intellectual Property ...
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is set to host the first of several meetings seeking input for its effort to develop new codes of conduct for handling private consumer date on the Internet and mobile ...
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Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyberattacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
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Microsoft today said it will release seven security updates next week--including one rated critical for Windows 8 and Windows RT--to patch 12 vulnerabilities in Windows,Office,SharePoint Server and the company's website design software. ...
Microsoft has told Windows 8 app developers that if they use the word"metro"in the name of their software,the app will be denied access to the Windows Store. The warning now appears in online guidelines for developers,in a section ...
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Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with. Facebook, in an announcement on the site ...
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A year ago,we saw the first Samsung Chromebook and we were left feeling pretty underwhelmed with it.Not only was the hardware clunky and slow,but Google's much-anticipated Chrome OS was far more basic and limited in what it could do that we ...
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Mozilla today said that income from search partners climbed 31% last year, hinting at the reportedly lucrative deal the open-source foundation struck with fierce browser rival Google. Royalties, almost all of which come from search ...
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IDG News Service-Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia is investigating claims that hackers have compromised its online stores as part of a larger attack that affected several of its websites. On Friday,a hacker group calling itself Team ...
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Three federal agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogus business opportunities, with some of the defendants offering to help customers set up ...
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Infoworld - After two years and 18 releases, Google this week took the beta label off mod_pagespeed, its Web page speed technology. Mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module in use at more than 120,000 sites, Joshua Marantz and Ilya ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. is facing a dramatically increasing threat from cyber attacks and a future attack on the country's critical infrastructure could have an effect similar to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. ...
Tags: cyber attacks, critical infrastructure, Internet, cyber security, US