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Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
The VeriSign breach is an example of how no one is too secure or too big to be attacked. Security experts said targeted attacks on "high value" companies will continue. - Companies get breached. That's the lesson of 2011. Large or
small, no organization is immune to attacks.
The VeriSign breach was just another day of business as usual for the
bad guys.
Campaigns such as Operation Shady Rat, disclosed by McAfee,
and Nitro, disclosed by Symantec, showed how eve...
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Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Adobe wants researchers to focus on mitigation technologies that make it expensive for attackers to launch attacks, not hunting bugs. - CANCUN,
Mexico Security researchers need to shift their attention away from hunting
for vulnerabilities and start thinking about ways to make it difficult to create
exploits, according to a security expert from Adobe.
There is too much focus on vulnerabilities and defects in
software, Brad Ar...
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Posted in @hackernews, community, Europe, hacking, hn, ifttt, News, pinboard, programming, security, startups, tav, Tech on February 4th, 2012 by r.metzler
Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon's Kindle Fire remains a popular Android tablet in early 2012, according to ChangeWave Research. The firm said 54 percent of Fire owners said they were "very satisfied" with the slate. - Amazon
(NASDAQ:AMZN) may have missed its analyst estimates for the fourth quarter, but
the company's Kindle Fire tablet remains a hot ticket item.
Some 6 percent
of 2,607 North American consumers surveyed in January claimed to own a Kindle
Fire, double the percentage of a month ago, according ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Despite public concerns from members of Congress and European data-protection authorities, Google isn't going to slow or stop its march to whittle its product privacy policies down into one big umbrella policy. -
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) plans to move forward with its
planned privacy policy changes despite resistance from a handful of U.S. congressmen and a European data-protection group.
The search-engine provider, battling Facebook for
supremacy of user engagement and advertising on the Web, said it pla...
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Posted in activism, conference, culture, hacker, hacking, hope, News, reprap, security, technology on February 4th, 2012 by juno660
Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Scammers are using automated techniques to generate tons of fake profiles to trick users into joining scams and clicking on malicious links, Barracuda Networks found. - CANCUN, MEXICO Cyber-crooks on Facebook are creating fake
profiles on the social networking site to launch their scams, according to data
released by Barracuda Networks.
The fake profiles are overwhelmingly women. About 97 percent
of the fake profiles collected by Barracuda Networks turned out...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
At its GoingNative 2012 event, Microsoft announced a new, open specification to help C++ developers tap into the compute power of graphics processing units (GPUs). - Microsoft is making it easier for C++ programmers to take advantage of the computing power in graphics processing units (GPUs) with a new, open specification called C++ AMP.
The software giant announced the new specification at its GoingNative 2012 event on Feb. 3, which focused on C++ development....
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