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3 hrs ago | Local NEWS 8

Scam Leaves Computer Users Vulnerable To Hackers

A new scam is reaching eastern Idahoans through the Web. This time the scammers are so invasive, they can access your computer remotely and even shut it down from thousands of miles away.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups, McCall, ID, Idaho Falls, ID

4 hrs ago | Hackinthebox.org

Hackers Reveal the Price of iOS Jailbreaks at #HITB2012AMS

There have been a lot of interesting developments here at Hack in the Box in Amsterdam, and one of them is the first ever union of the jailbreak Dream Team.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

8 hrs ago | Hackinthebox.org

Reputed websites under hacker threat: CERT India

Websites of reputed government and private organisations are under threat from hackers, the Computer Emergency Response Team India has said, warning users to be extra cautious while using the Internet.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers

12 hrs ago | CIO

Anonymous India Calls for Non-violent Protests Against Censorship

IDG News Service - The Indian arm of Anonymous is planning what it describes as non-violent protests against Internet censorship in various Indian cities, after some Internet service providers blocked file-sharing sites in the country.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Startups, Facebook, Science / Technology, Outsourcing

16 hrs ago | SavannahNow

Ex-Uk PM Blair appears at media ethics inquiry

Blair, who served as prime minister between 1997 and 2007, is godfather to one of the powerful tycoon's children and his former Labour government has been described by several colleagues as being too close to Murdoch and his media empire.

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Related Topix: Rupert Murdoch, Science / Technology

18 hrs ago | The Papillion Times

Authorities have lead on...

After 12 years in New York, he must woo moderate swing voters to win in a more conservative Nebraska.

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Related Topix: Nebraska, Science / Technology, Personal Finance, Social Security

Sun May 27, 2012

SecurityPark.net

Impact Testing of Road Blockers by Frontier Pitts

Frontier Pitts has been impact testing different Road Blockers to meet the needs of our individual client's sites since 2004.

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Daily Camera

Cyber threats bring increased business for Boulder-area data security firms

On an average day, Webroot Software uncovers roughly 40,000 new and unique malware files that have slipped onto people's computers.

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Related Topix: Boulder, CO, Webroot Software, Science / Technology

The Times of India

Hackers set June 9 deadline to unblock sites

MUMBAI: Hacking ISP Reliance Communications in the latest edition of its web attacks, Anonymous OpIndia set an ultimatum to the government to unblock all file-sharing websites as well as any other website that might have been restricted by ISPs and the government.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet Service Providers

Stabroek News

Jamaican blackmailers keep police busy with online sex photos

Shutting down porn sites has become a regular task for the Organised Crime Investigation Division since blackmailers have taken to publishing nude, sexually explicit photographs of multiple Jamaican women on the Internet.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Tyler Morning Telegraph

BBB Warns Consumers About Rise In a Smishinga Attacks

If you received a text message on your smartphone about how you have won a gift card worth hundreds of dollars, be careful.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

The Indian Express

Reputed govt, pvt websites under hacker threat: Cyber agency

Computer security analysts have issued an alert for Internet users and operators against hackers attempting to target websites of "reputed" government and private organisations.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Sat May 26, 2012

Mediaite.com

Mediaite Confessional: I Was The New Jersey Hacker Mayor's Campaign Manager

There it is, just as I imagined it. The gaudy Impact font, the gaping look of disbelief on his face; The Jersey Journal .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Hudson County, NJ, Cory Booker

Converge! Network Digest

Mu Dynamics

Spirent Communications agreed to acquire Mu Dynamics, which offers a network security and application performance testing tools, for $40.0 million in cash.

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Related Topix: Mu Dynamics, Spirent Communications, Startups, Science / Technology

CNN

Cyber and Computer Security

With all the reports of cyber and computer security problems, there is a solution that many are using called Linux.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, Linux, Ubuntu

Dark Reading

Cutting The Wait From Detection To Action

When companies detect a possible threat or vulnerability, answering the simple questions of what the impact of the vulnerability may be and how should a company mitigate the threat is not so easy in today's complex networks.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

TechTarget

Revisiting JRE security policy amid new ways to exploit Java

Data Loss Prevention , Data Analysis and Classification , Data Security and Cloud Computing , Identity Theft and Data Security Breaches , Enterprise Data Governance , Disk Encryption and File Encryption , Database Security Management Secure SaaS: Cloud services and systems , Operating System Security , Enterprise Vulnerability Management , ... (more)

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Related Topix: Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Spyware

Sys-Con Media

Cloud Computing: Protecting Data at Rest in Public Clouds

Protecting Data at Rest One of the important concerns on utilizing the public cloud and the SaaS-based service model is about 'How to protect the data at rest,' which means organizations are worried about how the data is protected in a public cloud scenario, and when the data centers are physically away from the enterprise.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Trend Micro, Software

Fri May 25, 2012

Inside Bay Area

Night Owl: Nerd Nite coming to Oakland -- "Like the Discovery Channel with beer"

Rick Karnesky is a science nerd and a beer lover. So he is helping to launch Nerd Nite in Oakland, which he said is "like the Discovery Channel with beer." The motto is "Be there and be square." During Nerd Nite, a bunch of nerds get together in a bar to hear a talk on topics such as "A Boy and his atoms;" "Ghoti spells fish ;" and "Kawaii -- the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Beer, Drink, San Francisco, CA, UC Berkeley, Science / Technology

WBAY-TV Green Bay

NJ mayor accused of hacking opponents' websites

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey mayor and his adult son hacked into websites of political foes who were seeking his recall.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

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