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Posted in Network World on December 29th, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Microsoft today shipped an emergency update to fix the flaw.
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Posted in Network World on December 21st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Chinese hackers lurked in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce network for six months without being detected, enjoying unrestricted access although it is unknown what information they exploited, according to a published report.
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Posted in Network World on December 21st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 9, claiming that the new browser processes JavaScript up to 36% faster than its predecessor.
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Posted in Network World on December 21st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Chinese hackers broke into computers at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and had access to everything on its systems including information on about 3 million of its members, according to a report in today's Wall Street Journal.
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Posted in Network World on December 21st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
The organization behind LibreOffice is hoping community members will help it uncover problems with an upcoming release of the open-source office suite via an international "bug hunt" next week.
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Posted in Network World on December 21st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Security experts have differing views on what the death of Kim Jong Il will mean for the future of cyberattacks.
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Posted in Network World on December 21st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
The rapid adoption of the newest mobile devices -- especially the Apple iPhone and iPad and the Google Android-based equivalents -- will be a huge disruptive force in enterprise security next year. Not only will there be pressure to decide how to protect and manage these devices, which are growing as malware targets, the complexity of this task is magnified many times over because companies are allowing employees to use their own personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes -- what's sometime called "bring your own device" (BYOD).
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Posted in Network World on December 20th, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Over 100,000 Lady Gaga fans were hit by the pervasive "click here to win a free iPad 2!" scam Monday after hackers infiltrated the pop star's Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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Posted in Network World on December 20th, 2011 by NetworkWorld
The prevalence with which hackers are handing out headaches to IT security pros will have a big upside for vendors in the coming year, according to new figures from Canalys.
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Posted in Network World on December 20th, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Majority of compliance gaps surround configuration and vulnerability management, an independent audit finds. But NRC has made important strides, too.
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