Hurricane Sandy exposed a decided lack of contingency planning on Wall Street, according to a report by a research firm. With the Northeast still experiencing the effects of widespread storm damage, the business continuity plans of stock ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
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The European Commission today launched a public consultation into net neutrality. It will be led by the vice president for the digital agenda at the EC, Neelie Kroes, who is keen to establish the facts around management of internet ...
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Nearly three years after its launch, Windows 7 is poised to replace Windows XP as Microsoft's most popular operating system, a Web analytics company said Sunday. According to Net Applications, a U.S. firm that tracks browser and operating ...
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Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote to Europe's top antitrust authorities with proposals aimed at avoiding a fine for anticompetitive behavior and abuse of its dominant market position. The European Commission confirmed Monday ...
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An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Sophos. The ...
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Retailers need to address the growing trend of mobile commerce to keep up with the needs of their consumers. This was the belief of Olivier Ropars, senior director of Europe mobile commerce at eBay, who told Computer Weekly that fewer ...
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This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
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Russia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a law to give the government the power to shut down internet sites without trial. If offending websites cannot be shut down, the law allows authorities to force internet service ...
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essence5 is pleased to announce the launch of its first web startup product, Mariposta. Mariposta provides all the tools needed to create gorgeous magazine-like websites with hardly any effort that work on tablets, computers, and ...
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Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
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SQL injection (SQLi) attacks rose 69% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, according to the latest report from secure cloud hosting firm FireHost. FireHost said that, between April and June, it blocked nearly ...
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PC World - Google has acquired Web-based URL scanner VirusTotal in what may be an effort to improve browser security. VirusTotal's service is pretty simple: Visit the website and either select a file to scan or paste in a URL. Also ...
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NETFLIX says it restored streaming video services a day after an outage triggered by technical problems at web service provider Amazon stretched across the Americas. The outage affected customers in the Americas starting about 12.30pm PST ...