Sharks were apparently more aggressive in 2011 when compared to previous years. A statistical analysis released on February 7 shows that sharks attacked 75 people last year, killing 12 of them (16 percent). The death toll is well above the average for the past 20 years, experts say.
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8 February 2012 06:57 GMT |
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Security specialist Daniel Garcia has released a tool that is capable of launching attacks against home networking devices that support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) on their WAN interfaces.Garcia revealed at this year's edition of the DEF CON security conference that entire series of routers, cable modems and ... |
25 August 2011 10:29 GMT |
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A 25-year-old UK man has been charged with hacking into multiple Facebook servers that handled internal and external services.Glenn Steven Mangham, a student from York, is accused of repeatedly bypassing Facebook's security and accessing its protected systems.Mangham was arrested by Metropolitan Police Central e... |
20 August 2011 03:24 GMT |
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The Anonymous collective has launched a campaign against Italian authorities following the arrest of three of its members in the country.The Italian police performed 32 raids and questioned 15 individuals yesterday in connection with Anonymous attacks against companies and organizations in the country.Three suspects ... |
6 July 2011 12:55 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation conducted in the United States, it would appear that people were less angry about the September 11, 2001 attacks than televisions and other media outlets first reported. The picture these channels painted was one of a nation eager to get revenge, and of a people tha... |
10 May 2011 10:53 GMT |
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The current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences may hold insight that could potentially help homeland security agencies in the United States and other western countries untangle the intricate connections of terrorist cells. According to the paper, some similarities may exist between the way social... |
5 May 2009 10:05 GMT |
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Over the past few months, social media websites such as Facebook and MySpace have come to be under constant attack from people who spread malicious software and other tricksters. Their goal is to collect the large amount of personal data that is being circulated on these sites, and to exploit it to their own personal... |
3 March 2009 08:55 GMT |
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Unlike Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are two platforms traditionally associated with a high level of security. This veritable status quo has been maintained by the low footprints both Mac OS X and Linux had on the operating system market, in contrast to Windows. It is in fact the ubiquity of Windows that makes the Mic... |
17 January 2008 07:16 GMT |
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eBay is just like the Pentagon, every week there is news of some hackers targeting them and doing something pretty bad. Several days ago, a data leak on eBay's forum made the news - some hacker posted sensitive data belonging to a lot of users on it (the forum). Also, eBay has acknowledged more than once that th... |
9 October 2007 05:51 GMT |
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Evil hackers are doing damage in two ways now. They've got to be insane to do this. Luckily, security experts know better. So, you're probably wondering what I'm yapping about. Well, hackers involved in phishing attacks have been using a Chinese government server, as the Inquirer informs. This is huge ... |
28 September 2007 09:50 GMT |
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I wanted to write about this for a long time, since it is pretty important, but I never got the chance to do it; plus, there wasn't enough material to back up my statements… until now. Sophos expert Fraser Howard wrote a great technical paper on "Modern web attacks" that is very inspiring and also explains thing... |
28 September 2007 03:47 GMT |
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Twisted Metal: Black (often referred to as TM:B) is the PlayStation 2 incarnation of the Twisted Metal series of car combat video games, created by Incog Inc. and distributed by Sony Computer Entertainment. An online enabled multiplayer-only variant, Twisted Metal: Black Online, was released later as a free send awa... |
26 September 2007 13:06 GMT |
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