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Collecting More and More Unstructured Data May Well Lead to Attackers Seeing Value
Nov 6, 2013“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.” So ...
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Websites Are Increasingly Tracking Users Without Their Knowledge
Oct 16, 2013Websites are increasingly tracking users without their knowledge or permission by using "device fingerprinting" to identify individual web users. Device fingerprinting uses the data sent by a PC, smartphone or tablet computer to websites ...
Tags: Fingerprinting, Computer Products, software
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LinkedIn's Service Outage and Potentially Put User Accounts at Risk of Compromise
Jun 20, 2013LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was ...
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Police Warns Motorists to Desist From Indiscriminate Use of Vehicles with Tinted Glasses
Mar 25, 2013The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has warned motorists to desist from indiscriminate use of vehicles with tinted glasses. He said laws banning such vehicles were still in force and that the police would soon clampdown on ...
Tags: tinted glasses, glass, Tinted Glass Vehicles
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HP on Monday Unveiled Its Big Data Security Strategy
Feb 27, 2013HP on Monday unveiled its Big Data Security strategy, describing how combining the enterprise search and knowledge management resources from its Autonomy subsidiary with its ArcSight security-event and information management (SIEM) can ...
Tags: HP, Big Data Security Strategy, SIEM
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IT Often Virtualises New Applications and Workloads by Default
Dec 28, 2012IT often virtualises new applications and workloads by default.Virtualisation is now the norm,deploying a physical server the exception.Yet,a third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing ...
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Winner Leo Pickford Could Soon See BYOD Dogs Appearing on Post
Dec 24, 2012The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has announced the winner of its Can you talk security? competition devised by BT and Get Safe Online. Winner Leo Pickford, an IT manager at a design company, could soon see his ...
Tags: UK national Cyber Security Challenge, BT, Get Safe Online, net security
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Keychaindump ,Created by Finnish Software Developer Juuso Salonen,Is a Tool to Steal Data
Dec 19, 2012A new tool allows Mac OS X attackers with root OS access to easily steal the keychain password data of logged in users and reinforces the dangers of granting administrative privileges to applications without serious consideration. The ...
Tags: Apple, hackers, Keychain data, Mac OS X
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The Planned Introduction of More Than 1,900 New gTLD Names by Icann
Dec 18, 2012The planned introduction of more than 1,900 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) could have security implications, researchers have warned. The plan to allow web ...
Tags: gTLD, Icann, security implications
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Businesses Is Warned to Take Encrypted Linkedin Passwords by Hacker Seriously
Dec 17, 2012Security experts are warning businesses to take the publication of encrypted LinkedIn passwords by a hacker seriously. The professional networking site has confirmed that "some" of the stolen passwords posted online by a hacker correspond ...
Tags: security experts, businesses, LinkedIn passwords, hacker
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Nearly Two-Thirds of These Are Using The Previous Version of a Browser
Nov 12, 2012Nearly a quarter of worldwide internet users are still running outdated browsers, creating huge gaps in online security, a study has revealed. Out of a random sample of 10 million customers, security firm Kaspersky found 23% were using ...
Tags: browsers, outdated browsers, online security, Kaspersky, security threats
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Swiss Consortium Turn Refrigerated Warehouses Into Future Smart Electricity Grid
Sep 27, 2012Switzerland's largest retailer is working with IBM to use business analytics to turn its refrigerated warehouses into part of a future smart electricity grid in the country. Migros, the Swiss supermarket, is part of a project involving ...
Tags: Switzerland, IBM, business analytics, smart electricity
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SMEs Struggls to Keep IT Infrastructure up to Date with Mobile Working & Cyber Threat
Jun 13, 2012Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are struggling to keep IT infrastructure up to date with mobile working and the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber threats, a survey has revealed. Most SMEs (92%) now need to support remote ...
Tags: SMEs, IT infrastructure, mobile working, cyber threats