Recent reports point out that the United States National Security Agency will get back at any hacker trying to mess up their systems. Also, it is a known fact that they hack their way into different communication networks to wiretap â theyâre just monitoring any possible terrorist conversation. Now, these are just security measures, and though the second is violating privacy, they canât be called something bad.
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Perhaps more important than the bricking of unlocked iPhones is the fact that the firmware update blocked third-party application development. Apple has refused to open the iPhone platform to third-party developers, saying programmers should write Ajax-based applications that users can access through the Safari Web browser.
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Well, if you read the news youâll find out that a lot of the evil hackers out there are graduates in computer science. They have a lot of knowledge and some of them have decided that researching just doesnât cut it â they have to gain profits in some other way. However, the people that are teaching them, giving them the knowledge they need either to uphold security or to take it down have now taken a decision.
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Websense has completed the acquisition of UK-based web-filtering competitor SurfControl in a deal worth around ÂŁ204 million, according to the US company. The acquisition sees Websense double its customer base to more than 50,000 organisations worldwide.
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A hacked county website in California that redirected users to a pornographic site triggered the federal government to initiate a system-wide shutdown of all government sites in the Golden State. The process was never completed, after state officials urged the feds to reverse their decision to take offline all state websites bearing the “ca.gov” suffix. The US General Services Administration (GSA) is responsible for all “.gov” sites.
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An international crackdown on internet financial scams this year has yielded more than $2.1bn (ÂŁ1bn) in seized fake cheques and 77 arrests in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Canada, US and other authorities said on Wednesday. The scammers use ploys such as “spam” email offering to pay recipients “processing fees” for depositing cheques, which later turn out to be fake, and sending the ostensible proceeds to the scammer, authorities said.
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Miscreants pushing Viagra and malware are making new progress infiltrating Google indexes, a feat that’s considered the Holy Grail among spammers. Google, which by some estimates carries out 60 per cent of the world’s searches, goes to great lengths to filter naughty sites from its results. The proliferation of rogue sites that have made an end run around the controls is giving rise to conspiracy theories that Google has been hacked.
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SAP enterprise systems never developed for security, vulnerabilities on the rise. SAP enterprise systems were never developed for security, researchers say. Since such systems manage the core information for many major companies, this is a major flaw. As more vulnerabilites are discovered, the situation is ripe for large-scale industrial espionage.
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Email links to Dalai Lama’s genuine website, but attachment is malicious. Taking advantage of international concern regarding the daily demonstrations in Myanmar, IT security and control firm Sophos has cautioned computer users to be wary of a malicious email which claims to be a message of support for monks and other protesters in Myanmar from the Dalai Lama. In reality, however, it carries a malicious attack designed to infect the recipient’s PC.
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Research commissioned by ZyXEL has found that 87% of IT managers are losing sleep at night over remote working because of the potential security risks to the network. Over the last few years, increasing numbers of businesses have been adopting remote and flexible working practices, largely due to the positive effect on workers’ morale, lifestyle and overall productivity. However, it is clear from the research that IT managers are very concerned about hackers using this avenue as a “back door” into the company network or to the risk of the corporate network by the use of unauthorised software and Internet access.
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