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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Researchers have found a flaw in Skype, the popular Voice-over-Internet-Protocol service which allows users to make video phone calls and internet chat with their computers. The vulnerability can expose your location, identity and the content you're downloading. Microsoft, which owns Skype, says they are working on the problem.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
The outcry over Carrier IQ's mobile-phone tracking software continued Friday, with a U.S. congressman asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the company.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
In what could be a precursor of legal action to come, mobile software vendor Carrier IQ has been hit with two lawsuits over the use of its controversial tracking technology in tens of millions of mobile phones worldwide.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Consumer Watchdog has called for a U.S. government investigation of Carrier IQ, the maker of tracking software for mobile phones, and its users.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
If a cyberattack from a hostile foreign source ever hit a public electric or water utility, affecting its industrial control systems, causing America's critical infrastructures to fail, would we understand that had even happened? We have more doubts than ever, after every twist and turn in the saga that began with the Nov. 10 "Public Water District Cyber Intrusion" report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center (STIC) that set off a media firestorm after the report was leaked to the media.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
An increasingly besieged Carrier IQ (CIQ) yesterday insisted that its software is designed only to help wireless carriers diagnose operational problems on networks and mobile devices. But its own marketing material for one of the products raises doubts about that claim.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has approved a recently introduced bill that would allow greater cyberthreat information sharing between U.S. intelligence agencies and private companies even though privacy advocates say it would allow those agencies to spy on U.S. residents.
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Posted in Network World on December 2nd, 2011 by NetworkWorld
IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years.
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Posted in Network World on December 1st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
If nothing else, the now disputed "hacking" of an Illinois water utility has brought the spotlight back to shine on the vulnerability of our national infrastructure.
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Posted in Network World on December 1st, 2011 by NetworkWorld
Data breaches in healthcare organizations are rising more than 30 percent year over year, with most organizations stating they've been breached in the past year.
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