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Espionage group that planted malware at New York Times is back 15 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
Researchers believe the China-based cyber espionage group that carried out a month-long breach of The New York Times‘ network is responsible for a spate of recent attacks leveraging new variants of th...
The NAC Landscape perception change 13 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
We have been in the Network Access Control (NAC) space for some time now. We looked at a variety of solutions in the NAC space but nothing fulfilled what we perceived as leading edge technology. When...
Websites’ servers hacked to host child abuse images 5 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
Dozens of businesses have been hacked and their computer servers used to host images of child sexual abuse, the Internet Watch Foundation has said. The charity said legal pornographic sites had also ...
World’s Biggest Data Breaches 29 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm
Here is an interesting article on selected data losses greater than 30,000 records Click Here for more Information Cited at Information is Beautiful Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) is a wide range o....
Tango chat app hacked claims Syrian Electronic Army 23 Jul 2013 | 07:19 pm
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), hackers loyal to president Bashar al-Assad, claims to have stolen millions of users’ personal details from Tango, a popular video and text messaging app. SEA says it...
Linux forum Ubuntu hacked and user details collected 23 Jul 2013 | 02:44 pm
Linux user forum Ubuntu was hacked over the weekend, with usernames, passwords and email addresses captured. According to a notice on the website, it said that the forums were ‘down for maintenance’ ...
Newly developed Mac malware from ‘Operation Hangover’ to be presented next week 19 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
An attack infrastructure detected earlier this year used additional malware that targeted Mac OS X machines. Researchers from Norman Shark, who revealed the advanced persistent threat (APT) infrastru...
One in five UK businesses hit by DDoS attack in 2012 18 Jul 2013 | 04:55 pm
Cyber security is a key area of investment for the UK, and in 2011 the government announced a budget of £650 million to shore up national defenses, but a new report has revealed that one in five UK bu...
Patients Put at Risk By Computer Viruses 17 Jul 2013 | 05:45 pm
The Food and Drug Administration is warning makers of heart monitors, mammogram machines and myriad other medical devices that their gear is at risk of being infected with computer viruses that can en...
NHS Surrey fined £200,000 after losing patients’ records 12 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
NHS Surrey has been fined £200,000 by data regulators over the loss of sensitive information about more than 3,000 patients. Thousands of children’s patient records were found on a second-hand NHS co...
