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Article | 30/05/2012 Nearly a fifth of U.S. PCs have no virus protection, McAfee finds
A McAfee study of PCs around the world found that 17 percent had no antivirus protection, and the U.S. outpaced the average with 19 percent of PCs unp...
Article | 29/05/2012 Gartner predicts huge rise in monitoring of employees' social media use
Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to monitor employee Internet use, with 60 percent expected to watch workers' social media use f...
Article | 29/05/2012 Romanian authorities dismantle hacker group targeting government websites
Twelve individuals were detained by Romanian authorities on Tuesday, suspected of being members of a cybercriminal group that hacked into the websites...
Article | 29/05/2012 Bug bounty hunters reveal eight vulnerabilities in Google services
Due to incorrect information provided by the source, the 11th paragraph of the story "Bug bounty hunters reveal eight vulnerabilities in Google servic...
Article | 28/05/2012 Researchers identify Stuxnet-like cyberespionage malware called 'Flame'
A new, highly sophisticated malware threat that was predominantly used in cyberespionage attacks against targets in the Middle East has been identifie...
Article | 28/05/2012 Anonymous India calls for non-violent protests against censorship
The Indian arm of Anonymous is planning what it describes as non-violent protests against Internet censorship in various Indian cities, after some Int...
Article | 28/05/2012 Information of U.S. federal employees exposed
A hack in July last year of a computer used by third-party services provider Serco to support the Thrift Savings Plan run by the U.S. Federal Retireme...
Article | 25/05/2012 Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges
The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and h...
Article | 25/05/2012 Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download
Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference i...
Article | 25/05/2012 Unthethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download
Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference i...
Article | 25/05/2012 Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches
The story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis...
Article | 24/05/2012 Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after re...
Article | 24/05/2012 Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after re...
Article | 24/05/2012 Researchers propose TLS extension to detect rogue SSL certificates
A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block...
Article | 24/05/2012 European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes
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