Up to 10 percent of mobile apps expose user passwords and login names, 25 percent expose personally identifiable information and 40 percent communicate with third parties, according to research results released today by ThreatLabZ, a ...
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Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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Dropbox is investigating reports that some European users are receiving spam to email addresses associated with their accounts, the company said Tuesday. Dropbox, whose cloud storage service is widely used, said in a statement that "we ...
Ireland top least-malware-infected nations for the first time PandaLabs, Panda Security's antimalware laboratory, today published its Quarterly Report for Q3, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from July through September ...
Oracle is finding itself caught up in another Java-related patent lawsuit, but this time it’s the one getting sued. Java middleware vendor Thought filed suit against Oracle on Oct. 31, claiming that WebLogic Server and other Oracle ...
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Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...
Security researchers have discovered a new cyber espionage campaign targeting several large companies, including two in the energy sector. The campaign, dubbed Mirage, targeted an oil company in the Philippines, an energy firm in Canada, ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com,a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform,because the site's user database was compromised. On Tuesday,a hacker named"ViruS_HimA"claimed that he hacked into"one of ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT,Peter Dawes-Huish,slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week,likening the current service level to a military mission"with an entry route and no exit route"that is"not just ...
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Hacktivist group GhostShell has posted log-in details of 1.6 million accounts they claim are taken from a series of attacks on organisations including NASA,the FBI and the European Space Agency. The Anonymous subsidiary group posted the ...
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IDG News Service-Japan's space agency said Friday that sensitive information on a new long-range rocket project may have been stolen by a computer virus. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,or JAXA,said it found evidence that a single ...
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IDG News Service-A group of hackers leaked email contact information of experts working with the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)after breaking into one of the agency's servers. The group published a list of 167 email addresses ...
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Romanian law enforcement authorities have dismantled a criminal group that stole credit card data from foreign companies as part of an operation that resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling$25 million. Officers from the country's ...
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