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Article | 27/04/2011 Sony games chief Hirai silent on PlayStation Network outage
Sony's top executive in charge of its games division appeared in front of journalists in Tokyo on Tuesday but failed to address an outage of the compa...
Article | 26/04/2011 DHS chief: What we learned from Stuxnet
If there's a lesson to be learned from last year's Stuxnet worm, it's that the private sector needs to be able to respond quickly to cyber-emergencies...
Article | 23/04/2011 Seattle police say 'wardrivers' are hitting small businesses
Seattle police are investigating a group of criminals who they say have been cruising around town in a black Mercedes stealing credit card data by tap...
Article | 24/03/2011 Monitor Your Employees' PCs Without Going Too Far
Do you know what your employees are doing on the Web? At a minimum, they're probably goofing off watching YouTube videos. At worst, they could be stee...
Article | 19/04/2011 Verizon's 12-step program for thwarting data breaches
Verizon's just-released "2011 Data Breach Investigations Report" says businesses could prevent  most data breaches if they stick to security principle...
Article | 19/04/2011 Verizon study: data breaches quintupled in 2010
Criminals carried out more but smaller data thefts last year than in previous years, indicating a shift toward simpler exploits that run lower risk of...
Article | 19/04/2011 Smartphone security follies: A brief history
As smartphones have grown more powerful and complex, so have the threats against them.
Article | 19/04/2011 In reversal, Yahoo will store user search data longer
In a move that is unlikely to win it any new friends in the privacy community, Yahoo has announced that it will retain consumer search data for a subs...
Article | 19/04/2011 South Korea probes possible cyberattack on large bank
Authorities in South Korea are probing a large system failure at a popular bank, trying to determine whether the incident was an error or a cybercrime...
Article | 19/04/2011 Verizon: Advanced persistant threat is overblown
When Google admitted last year that it had been targeted by sophisticated hackers, possibly from China, it introduced a new term into the high technol...
Article | 19/04/2011 In pictures: 8 essential Android security apps
A DIY guide to securing Android-based devices
Article | 19/04/2011 EU data retention law blasted on privacy issues
The European Union's data retention law has come under scrutiny, with a new report saying that it poses significant risks to individuals' right to pri...
Article | 18/04/2011 Wind power company sees no evidence of reported hack
One day after a hacker posted screen shots and data to a hacking mailing list, saying he had broken into a New Mexico wind turbine facility, the compa...
Article | 18/04/2011 Anonymous hacker claims he broke into wind turbine systems
Claiming revenge for an "illegitimate firing," someone has posted screenshots and other data, apparently showing that he was able to break a 200 megaw...
Article | 15/04/2011 Apple patches Pwn2Own, Comodo hack bugs
Apple today patched bugs in iOS and Safari used at last month's Pwn2Own hacking contest by three teams of researchers who collectively earned $45,000 ...
Article | 15/04/2011 Oracle to fix 73 security bugs next week
Oracle plans to release a large number of security patches for its various software products next week, including six bug-fixes for its flagship datab...
Article | 14/04/2011 Hackers gain root access to Wordpress servers
Hackers have compromised several servers that support WordPress and may have obtained source code, according to the founding developer of Automattic, ...
Article | 13/04/2011 Aussie users still duped by Facebook scams: Sophos
A local security expert is dumbfounded by the ease in which a fake <i>Twilight: Breaking Dawn</i> game application has spread across Facebook, and has...
Article | 14/04/2011 Firewall vendors challenge findings of NSS Labs report
Apparently, NSS Labs struck a nerve. NSS Labs revealed that almost all of the firewalls it tested for a recent report are susceptible to crash or comp...
Article | 14/04/2011 Toshiba releases self-wiping drives
Toshiba Wednesday unveiled its first family of self-encrypting hard disk drives (HDDs) that can also erase data when connected to an unknown host.

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