Foxconn, Apple’s giant Taiwanese manufacturing partner, denies reports that workers at one of its Chinese factories went on strike Friday and says the only disturbances happened earlier in the week but were squelched right away. The ...
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A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from 30 major U.S. banks, according to RSA. The organisers are thought ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to ...
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The organiser of golf's Open Championship outsourced the development and support of its website to help keep up with changing consumption and provide interactive services to millions of golf enthusiasts. Every year for four days the .Net ...
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Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic “live” tile icons in Windows, including in the newly launched Windows 8 OS for PCs and tablets and in the Windows Phone 8 OS for smartphones. ...
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Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — a finding that points to a well-funded operation, a security vendor has said. Prolexic Technologies said the ...
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Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The malware, nicknamed “Dockster,” is a backdoor that allows an attacker to control the victim’s ...
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More than one in 10 people in the U.S.believe they would be dead today,or severely incapacitated,if not for access to Web-based health information,according to a consumer survey by health technology provider Philips Healthcare. The survey ...
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The European Union's competition chief has said negotiations with Google to settle an antitrust probe have"advanced",but talks are not yet concluded. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he could could not anticipate the outcome ...
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The hactivist group Anonymous reacted angrily to the?Internet shutdown this week in Syria, an act attributed to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war there. Anonymous declared war on the Syrian regime, ...
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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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Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
It has been reported that detectives from the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested three people in connection with using ransomware to blackmail people. It has been alleged that computer users were targeted and led to believe ...
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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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