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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Researchers examined the state of security in SCADA and industrial control systems and presented an ugly picture of the vulnerabilities and challenges in addressing the issues. - CANCUN, Mexico Recent reports painted a bleak picture of
the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated
by the fact that administrators are naïve about the dangers, researcher said.
Researchers presented some alarming findings about the state
of secur...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8. - Some of the
major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected
computers, despite the fact that the botnet's command-and-control
infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau of Investigation's control for
the past few months.
The primary
function of the DNSChang...
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Posted in Anonymous, community, culture, ddos, free, hacking, network, News, Politics, Wikileaks on February 5th, 2012 by bcubiaco
Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Facebook has a strong ally in its growing battle against Google and its own social-networking aims: Microsoft. - Facebooks initial
public offering will hand the social network billions of dollars to spend on
future projects, and turn many of its employees into millionaires or
billionaires.
It will also
intensify competition with Google, which desperately wants to establish an
outsized presence in the so...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
RIM will likely abandon plans to license the BlackBerry OS in favor of positioning BlackBerry 10 head-to-head against Apple and Google Android, according to an analyst. - Research In Motion will dump its
BlackBerry OS licensing plans and double down on the upcoming BlackBerry 10s
ability to battle toe-to-toe against Apples iOS and Google Android, according
to a new analyst report.
“Our checks indicate RIM is likely to move
away from a proposal to the Board th...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Microsoft's week included a swipe at Google, the next version of Office in technical preview, and some leaks about Windows Phone 8. - Microsofts
week saw the release of its Kinect for Windows SDK (software development kit) and
Runtime, a very public broadside at Google over the latters privacy policy,
the next version of Office entering technical preview, and the unexpected
revelation of some crucial Windows Phone 8 details.
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Posted in global, News, security on February 5th, 2012 by kb_technews
Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Facebook users like to get more information than they give on the world's leading social network, according to a small Pew Internet Project study. The question is how Facebook can boost user engagement beyond just power users. - Facebook's IPO
will newly mint many millionaires, but many of the social network's 845 million
users can't be accorded the same largesse.
The majority
of Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give,
according to new information from the Pew Internet Project, which onl...
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Posted in 2012, chiefmonkey, Cybercrime, cybersecurity, digital, Gravity, hacking, hak5, interesting, internet_security, irc, literacy, News, Quinny, security, twitter on February 5th, 2012 by uremomz
Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Motorola Mobility's troubles with the Android Honeycomb-based Xoom tablet continue as nearly 100 WiFi Xoom devices were accidentally resold with user data on them. - Motorola
Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Feb. 3 said that it failed to wipe some user data from
roughly 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola Xoom WiFi tablets that were
refurbished and resold via daily deals Website Woot between October and
December 2011.
Original
owners who performed a factory data reset...
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