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  • Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

    Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.

    Written by Lucian Constantin • 09 May 13 11:55

  • Microsoft releases fix-it for Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability

    Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk • 09 May 13 02:03

  • Researchers find hundreds of insecure building control systems

    Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk • 09 May 13 01:37

  • iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending May 8

    The iOSphere seems to have lowered itself from mere rumor to mere guesses for iPad 5 and the iPad mini 2, though with just as much assurance.

    Written by John Cox • 08 May 13 23:24

  • Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment

    The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

    Written by Grant Gross • 08 May 13 20:05

  • Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

    The network at one of the biggest annual networking shows is being subject to a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) creating the equivalent of 90 million sessions attempting to use the network at the same time, all as part of a controlled test of the Interop network.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 08 May 13 19:14

  • Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks

    Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday.

    Written by Grant Gross • 08 May 13 17:49

  • UNSW wins Cyber Security Challenge Australia

    A team of students from the University of New South Wales will be off to the US Black Hat Security conference in July after winning the annual Cyber Security Challenge Australia (CySCA).

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 08 May 13 16:57

  • Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

    Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin • 08 May 13 16:52

  • Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands

    A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherlands on Monday evening, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday.

    Written by Loek Essers • 08 May 13 15:56

  • BigPond email scam emerges

    A BigPond email scam has been flagged after a security professional received an email addressed to 'Dear BigPond User' which contained malicious links.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 08 May 13 15:10

  • Privacy sweep underway for popular websites

    Fifty of the most popular websites visited by Australians will be searched by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) to see if their privacy policies can be easily understood and accessed.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 08 May 13 12:25

  • Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

    The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers.

    Written by Lucian Constantin • 08 May 13 11:19

  • Stealthy Web server malware spreads further

    A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk • 08 May 13 06:27

  • Proposed U.S. law aims to counter cybertheft with import bans

    A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed at China.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 08 May 13 04:19

  • Is your social network built enterprise tough?

    You don't have to look further than the uprisings across the Arab world to recognize the power of social tools, and this transformative power applies to business as well. But for an enterprise social network (ESN) to be genuinely useful, it needs to go beyond the "Facebook for enterprise" model.

    Written by Sriram Chakravarthy, VP, products and engineering, social computing, TIBCO • 07 May 13 20:32

  • FTC sends warning letters to 10 data brokers

    More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information.

    Written by Grant Gross • 07 May 13 19:42

  • The science of app-wrapping

    BYOD brings out the classic problem between control of corporate information and individual freedom. It kicks it up to a whole new level because the devices belong to the users, but at least some of the apps and information belong to the company and as such need protection and policy enforcement.

    Written by Carlos Montero-Luque, chief technology officer, Apperian • 07 May 13 18:25

  • Megaupload's lawyers: DOJ's charges have no basis in law

    The U.S. Department of Justice's copyright infringement case against file storage service Megaupload is "prosecutorial overreach" based on a misreading of U.S. law, the site's lawyers argue in a white paper released Tuesday.

    Written by Grant Gross • 07 May 13 16:37

  • EU data protection vote delayed again

    An important vote on the future of the European Union's privacy laws has been delayed again.

    Written by Jennifer Baker • 07 May 13 15:40
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