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Design Museum Expo Deliver a Major New Exhibition About Changes Sweeping in Textile Sector
Jul 18, 2013Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition about the sweeping changes in manufacturing that are transforming our world. New manufacturing ...
Tags: Design Museum, Textile Sector
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Jeremy Hammond Pleaded Guilty to The Charges and Now Faces 10 Years in Jail
May 30, 2013Jeremy Hammond, the hacker accused of breaking into global foreign-intelligence company Stratfor's systems and stealing information later posted to Wikileaks, has pleaded guilty to the charges and now faces 10 years in jail. Caught in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Hacker Group Anonymous on Saturday Made The Formula One Its Latest Victim
Apr 23, 2013Hacker group Anonymous on Saturday made the Formula One its latest victim when it performed a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its official website (formula1.com), as well as defacing its fan site f1-racers.net and several ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The London Olympics Faced Six Major Cyber Attacks
Mar 7, 2013The London Olympics faced six major cyber attacks during the Games out of some 165 million individual security-related "events" identified by the IT team put together by Gary Pennell, the CIO of the London 2012 Olympics. Cloud was a ...
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Major Malware Trend Will Be The Appearance of More Stuxnet and Flame-Style 'Cyber Weapons'
Feb 6, 2013This year's major malware trend will be the appearance of more Stuxnet and Flame-style ‘cyber weapons', internet security firm AVG's CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, has revealed to Computing. "Stuxnet and Flame have already happened, and ...
Tags: Stuxnet, Flame-Like Malware Attacks, Computer Products
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Anonymous Disabled US Sentencing Commission's Website for Death of Aaron Swartz
Jan 28, 2013Hacker group Anonymous said it had disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website in revenge for the death of internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, and vowed to release government data. The website of the commission, an independent ...
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The British Military Is Now Too Dependent on Information and Communications Technology
Jan 10, 2013The UK Defence Committee is urging the Government to be more vigorous in its approach to cyber threats. A new report released by the Committee says that the British military is now too dependent on information and communications ...
Tags: military, IT, cyber threats, information, communications technology
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There Has Been an Unprecedented Volume of Malicious Code and Attacks
Dec 25, 2012There has been an unprecedented volume of malicious code and attacks - including many high profile incidents - in the Middle East during 2012. Attacks ranged from those performed by cyber criminals to hacktivists and in some cases ...
Tags: malicious code, malicious attacks, high profile incidents, IT Security
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Ghost Shell Group Published The Log-in Details From 1.6 Million Accounts
Dec 21, 2012The Ghost Shell group, an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective has published the log-in details from 1.6 million accounts. The credentials were stolen from a series of hack attacks on Nasa, the FBI, the European Space Agency and ...
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Years Ago The Typical Hacking Scenario Look for Public-Facing IP Addresses.
Dec 18, 2012Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
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Cyber Attackers Used a Highly Sophisticated Toolkit
Dec 17, 2012Cyber 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 ...
Tags: cybercrime, Hactivists, highlightedpost, Bank attacks
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An Inquiry Is Underway After Website of Conservative MP David Morris Was Hacked at Weekend
Dec 10, 2012An 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 ...
Tags: MP's website, David Morris, Hactivists, enterprise security
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In July,Both Houses of Russia's Parliament Voted in Favour of The Law
Nov 1, 2012Russia has introduced a law ostensibly aimed at sites containing images of child sexual abuse and other illegal material, but it has raised fears of censorship. In July, both houses of Russia's parliament voted in favour of the law that ...
Tags: Russian, Internet Blacklist, parliament
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Falling Short of His Stirring Call to Arms to The Security Industry in San Francisco
Oct 9, 2012A new model of security makes sense as nation states, criminals and hacktivists continue to take obscene advantage of the way things are, says Art Coviello, executive chairman of RSA. Falling short of his stirring call to arms to the ...
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The Websites of Several Swedish Government Agencies Were Knocked Offline on Friday
Oct 8, 2012The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
Tags: Swedish government, hacktivists, Anonymous collective, cyber attack