Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Microsoft, Google and Facebook should do more to protect their users' privacy online, but these types of safeguards conflict with how these technology and Web giants make their profits, according to one expert. - Privacy should
be built into online services by default, but it won't happen so long as
companies, such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook, rely on advertising to make
money, according to a prominent privacy activist.
Major
technology vendors are providing sophisticated applications in exchange ...
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Adobe next plans to tackle Microsoft's Internet Explorer in its ongoing work to "sandbox" its popular Flash Player within browsers, Adobe's head of security said today.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems security requirements.
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced price reductions averaging around 12 percent for its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), effective Feb. 1, 2012. - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a reduction in price for its Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), effective Feb. 1.
In a Feb. 6 blog post, Amazon Web Service evangelist Jeff Barr announced a new series of price reductions for the S3 service, noting that AWS continues to innovate on it...
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
A research firm that measures the security effectiveness of browsers noticed something it thought might be fishy with the way Chrome was doing things. Turns out, there may currently be a privacy concern about Google's use of end user IP addresses as part of its Safe Browsing API.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Symantec is in an ongoing fight against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to 2006.
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