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August 16, 2010
Nearly 57% of Britons use information easily available on social networking and dating sites as their passwords, a poll has shown.
A survey of about 2,000 adults online by Experian found more than half use the same password for some or most of their online accounts, and never change their ...
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August 13, 2010
The speed of technological change is making the vast majority of short passwords easy to crack, a group of IT security experts has claimed.
Scientists and engineers from Georgia Tech Research Institute said modern graphics cards were now so powerful - capable of crunching the same amount of data as ...
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August 12, 2010
The Linux Foundation has issued a programme which helps people comply with licensing laws when using open-source software.
A "dependency checker" which scours codes for open-source licences is included in the product, as are a "bill of material difference checker" and a "code janitor".
The difference checker can help firms ...
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August 11, 2010
An organised network of cyber criminals has targeted online customers of a large British financial institution, draining their accounts of hundreds of pounds using a trojan virus, an internet security firm has warned.
M86 Security estimated around £675,000 was stolen from the bank between July 5 and Aug 4, 2010, ...
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August 10, 2010
A 21-year-old computer hacker who managed to crash the email system of one of the US's largest internet providers has been detained in a federal institution for four months.
James Black, who was 18 at the time of the offence in May 2008, admitted causing around 20 million Comcast.net customers ...
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August 09, 2010
Staff at the BBC reported losing tens of thousands of pounds-worth of laptops and mobiles between April 2008 and March 2010, according to the results of a freedom of information request from IT security firm Absolute Software.
Only 19 of the missing items, which included 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones ...
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August 06, 2010
The European Commission has delayed the deadline to revise the European Union Data Protection Directive by nearly a year, following pressure from the French data protection authority and other regulators.
According to the French Information Commissioner's Office, CNIL, the EC will publish legislative proposals only in the second half of ...
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August 05, 2010
Criminals may be able to spy on passwords, planners and emails on some versions of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, a German government agency has warned.
Apple's iOS operating system has "two critical weak points for which no patch exists" the Federal Office for Information Security said.
Criminals could ...
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August 03, 2010
With the cost of upgrading from Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 cited to be a burden on the taxpayer, the Government has said the outdated version will continue to be used in all of its departments.
In response to a petition to "Encourage government departments to upgrade away from Internet Explorer ...
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July 29, 2010
Vulnerabilities in IT security have once again been exposed - this time by a man who spent two years playing about with cash machines bought off the internet.
Barnaby Jack managed to hijack the computers inside the standalone version of the machines, which tend to be found outside supermarkets and ...
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