The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at addressing a critical Linux security skills gap. The majority of internet infrastructure is based on Linux, but Linux is rarely taught in schools and Linux ...
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Computerworld - Apple today launched OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth version of the 11-year-old Mac operating system. As promised yesterday by the company's chief financial officer, Mac OS X 10.8, aka Mountain Lion, was released to the Mac ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft last week began providing European consumers a "browser ballot screen" for Windows 8, a move that may be just the first of several steps the company will take to head off a new antitrust investigation. According ...
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Computerworld - Apple's suppliers had a banner July, providing yet another clue that the company has geared up production to release a new iPhone and a smaller iPad in four weeks, an analyst said. According to Brian White of Topeka ...
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Computerworld - Two security organizations have released online tools that let Windows users check for possible infections by Gauss, the newly-revealed cyber surveillance malware thought to have been built by one or more governments. ...
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Computerworld - Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and penetration testers verify the security of electric utility smart meters being installed in ...
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Computerworld - The same day it won a $368 million verdict in a patent infringement case against Apple, VirnetX filed a new lawsuit, alleging that the iPad Mini and iPhone 5 violate the same patents, according to court documents. The ...
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Oracle has released an out-of-cycle security update to patch newly identified vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited, after the security community urged the company not to wait. The move comes hot on the heels of news ...
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While newly-discovered malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, users can take some basic steps to protect apps and data, says security firm Trend Micro. Earlier this week, advanced analysis of the ...
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Unguarded corporate social media accounts are leaving companies exposed to serious security breaches, a survey of more than 1,000 senior UK executives has revealed. Most respondents (87%) said they use social media strategies to enhance ...
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The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has announced the winner of its Can you talk security? competition devised by BT and Get Safe Online. Winner Leo Pickford, an IT manager at a design company, could soon see his ...
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Threat data Future of hardware-assisted security Why Intel bought McAfee Defence in isolation and containment Social media, cloud, big data and mobile apps Video: McAfee co-president Michael DeCesare on consumerisation and security The ...
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Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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Java's recent security woes are not scaring off developers, who don't see Java as any more vulnerable than any other platform. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Java," says Gonzalo Diethelm, in charge of architecture and development ...
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