The Internet Society today sends the message around the world that it is time to embrace IPv6. A number of high-profile technology companies will turn on the protocol and make the permanent transition from IPv4. "Major internet ...
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A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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Microsoft yesterday pitched its Outlook.com email service to users of Gmail dismayed by Google's decision to abandon a popular enterprise synchronization service next month for new customers. Last week, Google announced it would phase out ...
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Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after ...
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IT Governance Ltd, a leading cybersecurity management service provider, is warning organisations that they are exposed to ever greater risks resulting from new Internet-based threats being launched faster than ever. IT Governance Ltd, a ...
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The hacker group that recently infected Israeli police computers with the Xtreme RAT malware has also targeted government institutions from the U.S., U.K. and other countries, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro. ...
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L.A. Management Company's customized e-newsletter tool offers more than 300 design templates, online subscriber forms to collect website visitors and email addresses and real-time reporting. L.A. Management Company, a firm specializing in ...
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Despite the winter chill,the auto show season is heating up,revealing a number of exciting redesigns,new models,and refreshes coming up in 2013. We saw a few at the recent LA Auto Show and expect more to be displayed in Detroit in ...
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SMS text messaging is certainly not exclusive to Apple or its iconic iPhone smartphone. But, apparently there is something unique about the way Apple delivers SMS messages that makes the iPhone particularly vulnerable to spoofing or ...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it would take up to December to come up with a process for handling the large number of applications for gTLDs (generic top-level domains). There are close to 2,000 ...
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Kim Dotcom, founder of the filesharing site Megaupload, which was shut down by US authorities, has revealed its replacement, Mega, which he says will protect file uploaders' identities. The website will use encryption to prevent users ...
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A data breach at Essex County Council, which has exposed up to 400 vulnerable people to identity theft, is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The security lapse, by a council employee, involved the names, ...
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The simplicity of data analysis tools developed by Topo.ly makes it stand above the rest. Learn how businesses can easily build maps for free from Excel spreadsheets. Building maps with multiple addresses is far from being simple. It can ...
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Microsoft on Tuesday rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Analysts might have shrugged at the ...
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