Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
Computerworld-Israeli and Palestinian forces have found a new means of wartime propaganda-social media. As the two forces continue to clash,firing rockets on each other,they've also launched a war of hashtags,English-language tweets and ...
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At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
VMware has confirmed that the source code for its enterprise-level virtualisation platform – ESX hypervisor – has been leaked online and is urging users to apply security patches. This is the second time the ESX source code ...
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IDG News Service - Under a new policy, Twitter will leave a placeholder message when it removes content resulting from a complaint by a copyright holder. Previously, the content was removed entirely, making it more difficult for people to ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a "rumor control" section on its website to counter misinformation on social networks that has affected relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. "Fema.gov/sandy now ...
Tags: Online, Misinformation, networks
It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand. For sale:"Our first 0day for Win8+IE10 with HiASLR/AntiROP/DEP&Prot Mode sandbox bypass(Flash not needed)."It's part of a recent message on Twitter from Vupen,a ...
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While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
Tags: Christmas, Fraudulent auction, payment sites
While the vice presidential debate Thursday night heated up Twitter,it didn't rock the micro-blogging site like last week's presidential debate did. Twitter continued its new role as the modern debate spin room during last night's debate ...
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In the 2012 presidential campaign,Twitter has become the new spin room. The popular social network stepped up to its new role during Wednesday night's debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Twitter counted ...
Tags: social network, Twitter, Debate Spin Room
Claims that 12 million unique device identifiers(UDIDs)of Apple iPads were hacked from the laptop of an FBI agent have been rebutted by the US law enforcement organisation. The FBI–which has its own Twitter feed–initially ...
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It's been quite the all-star cast of companies joining the Linux Foundation over the past year or so, and next week will see the addition of another doozy. Following in the footsteps of Broadcom, Nvidia and Samsung -- all of which joined ...
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ROSEVILLE,Calif.—Next Generation-NOW will host its first online NGN Huddle next week on the topic of generational transition. Family business owners from Gates Home Furnishings,Grants Pass,Ore.,and Coconis Furniture,South ...
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It's been evident for several years now that Twitter is a monetising, highly effective business commodity. Be it sponsored tweets, increased SEO click rates from well-distributed retweets and appearance in the right lists, having a social ...
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Computerworld-More than 1 million people had registered with the new Outlook.com email service on opening day,Microsoft said yesterday. The company announced the milestone in a tweet posted about six hours after Outlook.com went live."One ...
Tags: Microsoft, Outlook, email service, Gmail service