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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 273 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: wall street reports increase pc intrusions comments Discuss  
On Thursday, Security Fix featured an exclusive look at data pulled from an unreleased government report showing a steep increase in the amount of funds that banks, businesses and consumers lost last year due to computer hacking and malicious software attacks. Today, I'd like to highlight recently released figures, which show that trading giants on Wall Street also have grappled with a significant rise in computer intrusion-related fraud during that same period. In the first...Please click on the title to read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 234 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: office exploit hits street comments Discuss  
Attack code that targets a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft 's Office suite has gone public, a security company said Monday as it urged users to update immediately. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 207 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn hackers warn high street chains comments Discuss  
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7366995.stmBBC News25 April 2008High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers have warned.They claim it is only a "matter of time" before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted.Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia's government and some firms last year, they warned.The experts were members of the infamous "Hackers Panel" which convened in London this week a read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 190 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: google blurs faces caught street view comments Discuss  
In an attempt to quash privacy fears, Google has started blurring the faces of people displayed on its controversial Street View software. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 189 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: eu raises privacy issue google street view comments Discuss  
Europe's data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx, urged Google Thursday to respect local privacy rules  as it prepares to launch its Street View function this side of the Atlantic. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 122 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn downing street aide chinese honeytrap sting comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:04:44 -0500 (CDT)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2437340/Downing-Street-aide-in-Chinese-honeytrap-sting.htmlBy Andrew PorterPolitical Editor21 July 2008The aide to the Prime Minister met the woman in a disco in Shanghai during a trip to China with Mr Brown earlier this year.The unnamed official went back to his hotel room with her and the next morning reported that his mobile phone, which also contained his ema read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 94 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: symantec nabs pc tools street cred comments Discuss  
G'day to added anti-spywareSecurity and storage giant Symantec has agreed to buy specialist Australian-based anti-spyware firm PC Tools. Terms of the deal were undisclosed in Monday's announcement.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 65 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn confidential patient data lost teesdale street comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:04:35 -0500 (CDT)http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/teesdale-news/story,1843.htmlTeesdale MercurySep 16, 2008TEESDALE is at the centre of the latest data loss scandal after a memory stick containing information on hundreds of NHS mental health patients was found by a member of the public in a Barnard Castle street.The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Trust, whose jurisdiction Teesdale falls within, said the ‘serious breach of patient confidentia read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 62 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top hp layoffs wall street blues palins hack comments Discuss  
The week got off to a rough start with the collapse of Lehman Brothers sending shudders through global financial markets and raising questions about whether there will be a ripple effect on the IT industry. After the market closed Monday, Hewlett-Packard added to the dismal mood by announcing it will lay off 24,600 employees as it integrates Electronic Data Systems into the HP fold. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the victim of an apparent hacking attack on the Yahoo account she uses read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 57 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:27:06 -0500 (CDT)http://www.techworld.com/security/features/index.cfm?featureID=104738By John E. DunnTechworldSeptember 23, 2008If you have nothing to fear but fear itself, rationally speaking what is left to worry about?On the face of it, the workings of financial markets are a world away from the security industry, and yet there are instructive parallels if you stare a little harder.Computer security is about minimising risk for an org read more »
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