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This is something even the United States' Secret Service is looking into, so it must be really big. But, like I said in the subtitle, it's only half bad, as the information lost only included the supermarket responsible's customers credit and debit card numbers, and not the corresponding names and addr... |
19 March 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Retail Giant TJX had suffered a severe security breach in which 45 million customers' data had been stolen. A huge operation! And as if things weren't bad enough, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada explains in a report that this breach was predictable. I don't think I need to say more - y... |
27 September 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Travelodge is a hotel chain from the United Kingdom, and like any respectable business, it has a website. There is a bad part about this, however: their web page had a glitch that led to a data leak. One could get a hold of sensitive data belonging to others, as records have been exposed due to a flaw. The single goo... |
27 September 2007
06:55 GMT |
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As you already know, most security problems come from people ignoring some things that shouldn't be ignored. More than that, a lot of users and companies don't care about cyber-security because they see the same attitude in people around them. It's like a vicious circle of some sort - but someone needs... |
26 September 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Some things you just can't prevent. eBay is striving as hard as they can to make it safe for their customers, as they offer a lot of protection methods and they increase security on their site, but it seems that no matter what they do, from time to time we still get eBay related crime news. eBay users' sens... |
26 September 2007
04:07 GMT |
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This is the first article in the 'security news' category this week and… it's bad news. Some hackers strive really hard to get a load of sensitive data, but sometimes, they don't need to. Some users offer sensitive data on a silver platter, just because they're negligent. Here's how thin... |
24 September 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Negligence strikes again! As if Formula 1 fans hadn't received a big enough strike, after McLaren had been stripped of all its constructor championship points, now the FIA posts sensitive data on the web for all to see. I cannot believe how these guys can screw things up so bad! Who needs espionage and special t... |
21 September 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Now, here's some good news - this is a rare thing in cyber-security - the Californian government just issued an act that expands a data breach law. All that is needed for this new bill to pass is the governor's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) signature and the new "Consumer Data Protection Act" is going to be offic... |
17 September 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Encryption is really an issue these days. If you want your data to be protected, then you need to encrypt it with a "heavy" code. Systems are often hacked into and databases are being breached, so your last stand is your encryption system. It helps a lot - if it's really good, and the hacker will steal the coded... |
12 September 2007
08:28 GMT |
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Time is money, that's what they say. If you can increase the speed of your business, you can make more money. And how can you speed things up? Use the Internet, of course! Many web analysts predict that the Net will be the business environment of the future. And I tend to agree, with things evolving at this rate... |
10 September 2007
04:28 GMT |
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An important part in protecting a database is masking the info inside it. Your programs can still read it, but hackers will get things mixed up if they do access the info. Masking the data is also called "de-identification" or "data-hiding" and it is thought to be a pretty good security measure.George Duncan is a sta... |
6 September 2007
09:30 GMT |
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Once in a while I go searching the web to see if I can find anything on how to easily improve security. I've been reading some pretty good stuff lately, but the best thing that I came across today was a simple security plan for databases. I found it on eWeek and it is a nice and easy 5 step strategy. So here it ... |
6 September 2007
04:00 GMT |
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Facebook is a huge online social networking directory, so it contains a lot of data that hackers would like to phish and now they're doing something to make malicious users' life easier.They have a new project, through which they want to make the information public. What does that mean? Well, say your name ... |
5 September 2007
15:56 GMT |
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A lot of personal data of many people, mostly computer users from the United States, reside on a French server, as NetworkWorld informs. There is nothing bizarre about this, unless you treat if from a "paranoid security geek" perspective. So, how much info is there? Well, the personal details of thousands. How did it... |
4 September 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Another laptop has been stolen and sensitive information has been exposed. This time, it's At&T that's been affected. But this has become rather common lately, I guess that we've had one of these cases every week. However, AT&T's situation is a little bit more severe than others' since all th... |
3 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Data leaks have recently affected lots of people and a site containing personal information of more than 2 million users has been breached. Hackers bypassed the defenses and stole sensitive info that a lot of people had placed on that page. The website that we are talking about is USAjobs and it is a governmental web... |
31 August 2007
05:06 GMT |
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You've probably heard about security breaches and data being stolen a thousand times on the news. This is not something new and people don't seem to be very affected by this, probably because it's not a direct threat. If your data gets stolen, nothing bad actually happens, it needs to be used in a cert... |
30 August 2007
04:47 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Information has been wiretapping since…forever, but only recently have there been some scandals of them violating privacy and stuff like that. Some security experts have even stated that their huge data-bases of wiretapped info could represent a vulnerability for the US, should anyone hack them.... |
30 August 2007
03:28 GMT |
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Are we paranoid security geeks or is this really a threat? Well, to be honest, I think that school sites giving away all sorts of data about their students are easing the 'work' of hackers. Nobody is in any direct danger, so to say, but every bit of info disclosed might be a starting point for malicious us... |
29 August 2007
09:49 GMT |
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If you don't leave tracks on the Web it's less likely to get hacked. Hide really well and you will have less problems. I've seen theese things before with several firewalls, it's called the "They can't harm me if they don't know I'm here" principle (isn't that a mouth full?). S... |
28 August 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Hackers hit the bank. Data is stolen. People's identities are in danger. Bank representatives don't care. That says it all in a nutshell. In my opinion, it's not the bank's fault that hackers exist and attack databases. It all happened in Indiana, involving the Old National Bancorp and tens of tho... |
27 August 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Can Voice Over IP calls be listened to by malicious users? Well, while using the basic "It's on the Net so it can be hacked" mentality, the answers is "Yes", at least for now. Phishing by phone has not been considered a real issue till now, because talking on the phone costs money, while e-mailing is free. Also,... |
27 August 2007
05:14 GMT |
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You can never be too secure! But if you do have well defended PCs and such, you can never know what is going to happen in real life, that will mess up something in your data base. You can get all sorts of fire-walls installed, and have anti-virus programs running all the time, but what's the use of all these whe... |
27 August 2007
03:54 GMT |
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Sensitive data protection is a big issue these days. IT experts everywhere try to defend their companies' data as well as they can, still, in some cases, it leaks and hackers get a hold of it.Fidelis Security announced on Tuesday a quick start program for its data-leak prevention product that is bound to help co... |
23 August 2007
05:38 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems is keeping pace with the global computer related industry of upgrading and overall transforming the data centers into more energy efficient places. The company announced that three of its data centers that were recently built in Santa Clara, California; Blackwater, United Kingdom and Bangalore, India... |
22 August 2007
10:35 GMT |
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Lately, there was news about hackers stealing data, that it became something sort of common. How many were affected this time? Well, about 60.000 people, which is nowhere close to what Prg has done to Monster.com. So, the good news is that it could have been worse. It all happened in Norway, when a group of hackers h... |
21 August 2007
11:44 GMT |
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Yesterday, I wrote an article about the Prg trojan, a dangerous virus that steals data like no other while being impossible to stop by anti-viruses because of its self-mutating code. Prg is still at large and continues to wreak havoc on job search sites.I decided to write this "Part II" because I think this is a real... |
21 August 2007
04:46 GMT |
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Verus is an online bill-paying company that had a huge database of their clients. They have been recently forced out of business because of information that leaked and which anyone could find via Google.Verus was working together with a lot of hospitals in order to facilitate bill-paying. A lot of data about hospital... |
20 August 2007
14:26 GMT |
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This has got to be the worst case scenario ever! I have never seen such hacker geniality before. Malware creators have recently designed a new type of trojan called Prg. We all know trojans can't do much to a computer, and neither does this one, but it's great at stealing data. The really impressive part is... |
20 August 2007
05:33 GMT |
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As everyone knows, computers make our work easier these days. It's a heck of a lot easier to just search for some person inside a computerized database than to search for some paper files on a desk or in piles of folders. Bureaucracy is going down fast with new technologies appearing every day.And now, something... |
20 August 2007
03:51 GMT |
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Pfizer is a huge pharmaceutical company that, amongst many other drugs, also produces the famous blue pill, Viagra. As of late, the firm has been experiencing some problems, because of data theft as well as some workers not respecting the rules, fact which led to information leakage.The first bad incident for this fi... |
17 August 2007
04:12 GMT |
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Among the most important energy consumers in the whole IT industry, the data center has a very special and near the top place, their projected energy consumption being said to double until 2011. So a new set of specifications and guidelines have been drawn up in an attempt to minimize energy waste and electricity bil... |
11 August 2007
06:39 GMT |
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IBM is one of the leading manufacturers and vendors of servers and mainframes since the good old days when the first iteration of the System z platform was hot news. Recently, the big and blue company entered the blade server market and now they are already thinking expansion plans in order to maintain their place on... |
6 August 2007
11:12 GMT |
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The HP company announced today that it will soon start work together with the retailer Wal-Mart to build a data warehousing platform that should process the complex business data retrieved across Wal-Mart's 4000 American stores. The platform selected by Wal-Mart is the HP's Neowin data storage and analysis ... |
1 August 2007
11:04 GMT |
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Every computer user has some files that he or she would like to keep in the event of an unfortunate hard disk drive failure. The way to do this it the data back up, invented in the long gone days when computers still used punched cards and the fast storage meant a few kilometers of magnetic tape. There are a lot of b... |
28 July 2007
07:47 GMT |
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New research provides extremely broad bandwidth and could bring the next generation of wireless data connections that will transfer a 4.7 GB DVD in just a few seconds. This new product will finally get us rid of the tangle of wires that lurk under the desk.Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at... |
20 July 2007
08:19 GMT |
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Magnetic avalanches could wipe clean entire hard disk drives, so a new model of this phenomenon helps explain how and why they appear, but most importantly, how to prevent them in order to create new and more reliable memory storage devices.Two magnets pushed together create an avalanche of magnetic activity, used t... |
18 July 2007
05:47 GMT |
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Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that exists all around us, in nature as well as in man-made applications. It's the manipulation of these light waves that made possible some of the most widely used technologies of today, from cameras to microwave ovens and medical imaging machines.A new device, deve... |
13 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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Magnetic recording are data storage applications that use different patterns of magnetization on a magnetically coated surface to store data and represent non-volatile memory. One or more read and write heads are used to access the information.Now, a group of scientists at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Neth... |
28 June 2007
09:51 GMT |
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A team of scientists in Singapore created a new device that can store holograms with the help of an electronically controlled crystal film. With some improvements, this could become a storage medium for increased amounts of data in small areas.Holographic memory is a technology used to store amounts of information a... |
1 June 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Colloids have been used for over 3,000 years, since the invention of ink, but only recently have scientist been able to decipher some of their unique properties. They are heterogeneous mixtures made of tiny particles or droplets that visually appear to be homogeneous solutions, meaning that they are in fact a mixtur... |
17 May 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Would one day our computers be swarming with bacteria?This could happen as some researchers focused on DNA - believed to be the oldest storage medium found in nature - as the ultimate in permanent data storage.Now researchers have reported progress in employing DNA to store text, images, music and other digital data ... |
19 March 2007
05:29 GMT |
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