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Microsoft Has Joined Google and Facebook in Plotting a Replacement for The Cookie
Oct 12, 2013Microsoft has joined Google and Facebook in plotting a replacement for the cookie. For many years the humble cookie, a small text file that browsers download when they visit a web site, has been one of the mainstays of online advertising, ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cookie
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Red Hat Has Coupled The 10gen MongoDB Data Store
Aug 2, 2013Easing the path for organizations to launch big data-styled services, Red Hat has coupled the 10gen MongoDB data store to its new identity management package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. "The beauty of Identity ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Lenovo Offered a Peek Under The Covers on a New Consumer Cloud Storage Service
Jun 8, 2013Lenovo this week offered a peek under the covers on a new consumer cloud storage service called Lenovo Reach, which it said will allow users to securely access their cloud-based files and applications from any device via a single login ID. ...
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Yahoo Japan Said It Discovered Illicit Access to Its ID Servers on Thursday Evening
May 22, 2013Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. The company emphasized that the IDs are already public information, and no passwords or other ...
Tags: Yahoo Japan, User ID, Computer Products
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Linkedin Has Shut off Its API Access to "Bang with Professionals"
Feb 18, 2013LinkedIn has shut off its API access to "Bang With Professionals," a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to ...
Tags: LinkedIn, API, social networking
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A Danish Graduate Student Was Searching for Research Material on an IEEE FTP Server
Jan 4, 2013Computerworld - A Danish graduate student said he was searching for research material on an IEEE FTP server last week when he stumbled upon the usernames and passwords of about 100,000 members of the professional association. In a blog ...
Tags: IEEE FTP server, web server, IEEE Site, User IDs
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Microsoft's 10 Biggest Buys
Dec 28, 2012While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements. Microsoft's 10 biggest buys Microsoft System ...
Tags: Microsoft, The Bar, SQL Server, 2012
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A Federal Judge Dismissed a Privacy Class-Action Lawsuit Against Linkedin
Dec 21, 2012A federal judge in California dismissed a privacy class-action lawsuit against LinkedIn that alleged the social media network violated provisions of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) when it disclosed the IDs and browsing histories of ...
Tags: federal judge, privacy lawsuit, LinkedIn, social media network
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Former Soviet Union Recruited People to Steal Millions of Dollars From Major U. S. Bank
Dec 17, 2012A 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 ...
Tags: cyber crime, cyber criminals, highlightedpost, Trojan, banks
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Hackers Have Leaked Over One Million Apple User IDS
Sep 4, 2012Hackers operating under the Antisec banner have leaked over one million Apple user IDs that they say they took from the FBI. The hackers were able to get their hands on the information when they accessed a laptop belonging to an FBI ...
Tags: Hackers, Antisec banner, Apple user IDs, leaked, FBI
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Network Security Controls and Practices Are Among The Most Mature
Jun 27, 2012Table of contents Public Wi-Fi hotspot dangers Security of 3G and 4G-based hotspots Network access requires careful management Educating users about security risks Network security controls and practices are among the most mature,but can ...
Tags: Public Wi-Fi hotspot, 3G and 4G-based hotspots, security risks