Archive for the ‘Network World’ Category
Posted in Network World on May 17th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Social media -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth -- has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.
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Posted in Network World on May 17th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Apple devices -- ever more popular in the workplace -- are about to become more popular with cyber criminals.
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Posted in Network World on May 17th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
The malware business growing around Google Android -- now the leading smartphone operating system -- is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers.
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Posted in Network World on May 17th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
The controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has experienced a distributed denial of service attack, according to the site's Facebook page.
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Posted in Network World on May 16th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Sometimes you pull the short straw.
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Posted in Network World on May 16th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score.
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Posted in Network World on May 16th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website has been taken offline following a suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Posted in Network World on May 15th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
More than a year into its bring-your-own-device program, MasterCard Worldwide continuously assesses the security technology and policies that allow 30 percent of its employees worldwide to use their personal iPhones, iPads and Android devices at work.
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Posted in Network World on May 15th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
A new variant of the Zeus trojan tricks users into exposing their debit card details by displaying rogue offers when they visit Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer.
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Posted in Network World on May 15th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Rogue browser extensions might inject commercial ads into Wikipedia pages, Wikimedia Foundation said
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