This in-depth research from Computer Weekly and TechTarget reveals the IT security spending priorities of businesses in the UK and Europe. Despite the downturn, 40% of organisations plan to increase their security budgets in 2013 in ...
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Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
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A hacker group has posted the details of 453,000 Yahoo customers online, according to reports. According to a report on technology news website Ars Technica, the hackers posted login details of the user accounts they claim to have ...
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A service discovered in the criminal underground is renting access to thousands of corporate servers that have been hacked through Windows software that lets people control computers remotely over the Internet. Dedicatedexpress.com is ...
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A Yahoo user has sued the web portal company for negligence for allowing more than 450,000 user names and passwords to be stolen from one of its sites. Jeff Allan of New Hampshire, whose login credentials were posted online after a ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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A dream tool for hackers capable of cracking nine billion passwords a second can be bought for as little as pound 400, warns hosting firm UKFast. Researchers found a low-spec desktop PC with two readily available, high-power graphics ...
VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for its ESX hypervisor technology could become public after another batch of code was released by a hacker. The source code dates from 2004 and is related to other code released in ...
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Security experts are warning businesses to take the publication of encrypted LinkedIn passwords by a hacker seriously. The professional networking site has confirmed that "some" of the stolen passwords posted online by a hacker correspond ...
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A member of hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a hack targeting GoDaddy,the world's largest domain name registrar,which has resulted in thousands of websites being brought down. The US service provider hosts ...
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Internet communication platform Skype has been hit by worm malware that could infect Windows PCs. When users of the communication platform click on an instant message that says"lol is this your new profile pic"they instantly download ...
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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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Dozens of US banks face a "credible" threat from hackers based in Eastern Europe who are planning large-scale attacks next year, a security firm said in a report. The report released by McAfee Labs supports the conclusions of ...
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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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An inquiry is underway after the website of Conservative MP David Morris was hacked at the weekend. David Morris,MP for Morecambe&Lunesdale,said an organisation claiming to represent"Freedom for the Mujahideen"had taken over his website ...
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