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E-mail is not coded ... like an unlocked car!
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has just released a study showing that only about 25% of businesses in the UK apply e-mail encryption measures before sending. 75% of unencr…
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Microsoft changed the mechanism for issuing patches
After a series of hackers quickly exploited security holes in Internet Explorer and customer grievances about delays in issuing patches, Microsoft is currently looking f…
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Hacker successfully installed WinXP on an Intel-based Mac
As expected, hackers figured out how to start Microsoft's Windows XP operating system on a new Macintosh computer using Intel chips. To be more accurate,
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'Botnet' threat
Right now, a hacker named '0x80' is controlling more than 13,000 computers in more than 20 countries. 0x80 is typical of a new generation of hackers that can earn a lot…
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The bank is the number one target for hackers
According to US security firm Counterpane and e-mail management company MessageLabs, financial units suffered nearly 40% of Trojan attacks last year, while production fa…
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Computer virus: Looking back 20 years
In the three decades of computer development, there has been a twenty-year silence: computer viruses. People have spent a lot of effort to develop computer science and h…
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Blogsites 'Green hat hackers'
Microsoft has released some hacking information from the blue-hat hacker group on Thursday, just a day after the third green-hat hacker conference took place.
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Traps from wireless internet access points
You go to a Wi-Fi cafe - a wireless internet access point to just enjoy coffee and online with your laptop. You connect to the wireless network and start making transact…
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'Computer terrorist' teaches how to avoid being attacked
Kevin Mitnick, once made the FBI hunt for 3 years after attacking the system of the world's largest corporations, now
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Hacker Defender stops working
Hacker Defender - an open-source Windows rootkit - has become very popular among security researchers around the world and is known as the most widely distributed rootki…
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VFF website is attacked by hackers
At 9:45 pm on February 28, the Vietnam Football Federation's website www.vff.org.vn was attacked, harassed by a hacker, occupying a posting corner of a notice. admin (ne…
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OS X errors are dangerous for Mac users
A new bug found on OS X (Mac OS) can give hackers the opportunity to hack into and install malicious programs on the computer. This is the third security issue after app…
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Find a security error, reward 10,000 USD
iDefense Labs, a branch of VeriSign, has officially opened a large playground for hackers and security globally called 'Quarterly Hacking Challenge', with a prize of up…