Intellectual property theft, predominantly by Chinese computer hackers, costs the US economy $300bn (£200bn) a year and must be treated as seriously as terrorism. That's according to The Commission on the Theft of American ...
A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report. More than a dozen utilities said ...
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A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. ...
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Designs for more than two dozen advanced U.S. weapon systems, including missile defenses, combat aircraft and ships, were reportedly accessed by Chinese hackers. The systems were listed in a previously undisclosed section of a report ...
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U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. The 100-page report, ...
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Google plans to upgrade the security of its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, an important component of secure communications. SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which ...
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A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyber-attacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report. More than a dozen utilities said ...
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De Monfort University (DMU) has joined forces with business advisors Deloitte to launch a masters in science (MSc) for cyber security - what it says is the first of its kind in the UK. DMU's Cyber Security Centre experts and Deloitte's ...
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Twitter will offer users two-factor authentication when they sign in as "a second check to make sure it's really you". Twitter is stepping up its security measures following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media ...
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China's remarkable success at infiltrating U.S. government, military and corporate networks in recent years shouldn't be seen as a sign that the country is gaining on the U.S. lead in cybertechnology expertise. State-sponsored hacking ...
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Yahoo has concluded a $1.1bn (£725m) deal to acquire Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, which achieved revenues of just $13m (£8.56m) in its last financial year. The deal is the largest undertaken by ...
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Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, "As if Java updates weren't confusing already." The changes were posted in an Oracle support document last week. "Limited Update releases will ...
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Cyber-crime incidents that are reported by the press are "just a snapshot" of what is actually happening, according to the government spy agency GCHQ's director Sir Iain Lobban. In an article entitled "Countering the cyber threat to ...
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Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based start-up with a data visualisation engine that helps to discover patterns in live data streams. Lucky Sort's chief executive officer, Noah Pepper, announced the news on the ...
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Organisations across the IT, communications and defence sectors have teamed up with Business and IT Sector Skills Council (E-Skills UK) to launch cyber security apprenticeships. The aim is to boost the number of young people working in ...