National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked for their help to secure cyberspace. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community," ...
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German engineering firm Siemens has issued a fix for the software vulnerabilities in its programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that were exploited by Stuxnet. The computer worm was discovered in 2010 when it caused malfunctions at ...
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Nvidia said it is investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums, another significant data breach following recent compromises at Yahoo and LinkedIn. A group calling itself Team Apollo posted on Pastebin around 800 ...
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Computerworld-Yahoo today confirmed that 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords were stolen Wednesday from one of its services,although it downplayed the threat. "We confirm that an older file from Yahoo!Contributor ...
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Ancient military wisdom dictates that defenders need to know themselves as well as their enemy, and this can be applied to defending information security today, says security firm Websense. In building effective IT defences, businesses ...
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Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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Law enforcement officers have arrested six people in the UK and 12 in the US in an FBI-led sting operation that netted a total of 24 credit card cyber fraudsters in 13 countries. The arrests follow a two-year undercover FBI investigation ...
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has launched a campaign with the Guardian on Change.org to stop the extradition to the US of Richard O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old UK student. Change.org is described as a platform for social change, enabling ...
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Businesses are largely failing to block hackers from exploiting privileged IT accounts to access sensitive commercial data, a survey has revealed. Some 63% of more than 400 IT staff polled across Europe agreed that recent cyber attacks ...
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LinkedIn has confirmed that "some" of the stolen passwords posted online by a hacker correspond to accounts on the professional networking site. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million encrypted stolen passwords had been ...
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A hacker has posted 6.5 million encrypted passwords from LinkedIn on the internet. Sophos researchers have confirmed that the file posted on a Russian web forum contains LinkedIn passwords. Hackers are working together to decrypt ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards,which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines.The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Wednesday,Oct.17,at Pier Sixty ...
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