McAfee plans to acquire Stonesoft, a Helsinki-based maker of firewalls, for US$389 million in cash, the companies said Monday. The Intel subsidiary said firewalls are one of the fastest growing products in network security, which it plans ...
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Samsung has had its security-enhanced smartphones and tablets approved for use by the U.S. military. The U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) says it is now happy to use Samsung Android devices in the field after its Defence Information ...
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A subdomain of a U.S. Department of Labor website appeared offline on Wednesday after an apparent hack that looks similar to a known China-based hacking campaign nicknamed DeepPanda. The tampered page, called Site Exposure Matrices (SEM), ...
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Mozilla sent a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday to a European company that created a piece of spyware masquerading itself as the Firefox browser. The move comes after computer security researchers said Tuesday they discovered that a ...
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Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven percent of all ...
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Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven percent of all ...
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Technology organisations are among the most frequently attacked by hackers, according to the latest ‘Advanced Cyber Attack Landscape’ report and interactive maps by FireEye. The report and maps provide detailed insight into ...
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The cyber attack Friday on the Internet deal site LivingSocial that forced it to reset the passwords of some 50 million users has elements of what's becoming an all too familiar storyline. Along with the names, birth dates, and email ...
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The £650m over four years that the government allocated to cyber security in 2010 was recently branded "embarrassing" by Bob Ayres, a former intelligence officer at the US Department of Defense, in an interview with Computing, and ...
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Open-source board maker BeagleBoard.org has introduced a bare-bones PC starting at $45, bringing it closer to the popular Raspberry Pi, which offers basic models for $25 and $35. The $45 BeagleBoard Black has no casing and comes in the ...
The UK continues to struggle against cyber criminals with no clear victory in sight. That's what the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee heard from the cyber security industry as experts gave evidence about e-crime. "I don't think the ...
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Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion. The site on Friday released a five-hour transcript of a June 2011 meeting between Julian Assange, one of the ...
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Thirteen popular home and small office routers contain security problems that could allow a hacker to snoop or modify network traffic, according to new research. Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a security consultancy based in ...
Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations company Groub-IB have recently identified a new piece of malware designed to steal login credentials from specialized software used to trade stocks and other securities online. ...
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The largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., BitFloor, has closed again, this time due to issues with its bank account, according to its founder. Roman Shtylman wrote that the exchange's "US bank account is scheduled to be closed and we can ...
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