Results tagged 'it security'

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• Facebook, Twitter Cyber Attacks Triple

  There has been an “alarming” rise in spammers and hackers taking advantage of online social network users according to a report by...

• Firefox and Opera Downloads Swell Following IE Security Issues

  In the wake of an Internet Explorer critical security flaw that has been blamed as for allowing the Chinese-based attack on Google, alternative...

• Adobe Flaw to Remain Unpatched Until Next Week

  Security fears are growing that hackers are taking advantage of an Adobe PDF security flaw that will not be patched until 12 January, 2010. The...

• Telstra Customers Most Infected by Conficker Virus

  US-based internet security group, The Shadowserver Foundation, has found that Telstra is hosting the most users in Australia infected with the...

• Mobile Phone GSM Code Encryption Hacked

  A group of 24 scientists have cracked the security encryption code that secures approximately 80 per cent of mobile phones worldwide. However, the...

• Worm Writers Thrive in Economic Slump

  For one sector of the information technology world, the global economic slowdown has marked anything but a slowdown in activity a new report has...

• Australia to get Cyber Defence Command

  A new emergency response team to deal with cyber attacks, to be named CERT Australia, will start up in January 2010 as part of the Federal...

• Australians avoid malware bugs

  It might not seem that way to local PC users struggling with malicious infections, but Australia’s malware infection rate is significantly...

• Brazil attacks put national security on alert

  Revelations and confirmation that deliberate hacker attacks caused huge power blackouts in Brazil in 2005 and 2007, have again thrown the...

• Worms are turning, Microsoft warns

  Malcious worms have been a growing threat to computer security in the first half of the year, Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence...

• Security not short-changed in ICT penny-pinching

  EVEN while cutting down on other areas of ICT spending, organisations are maintaining their investment in security, a new report by IDC shows. But...

• Hackers ride the Wave

  GOOGLE’S new Wave technology, the search giants attempt to bridge email with instant messaging and communications, is already attracting the...

• Cyberspace: The next battlefield

  CYBERSACE could be the next great battlefield in a future world war, and action must be taken to combat cyber attacks, the UN telecommunications...

• Email phishing leaks spread

  Hundreds of thousands of users of such popular email services as Gmail, Yahoo have joined their Hotmail-using colleagues in having their passwords...

• Microsoft blocks Hotmail accounts

  MICROSOFT has blocked access to thousands of accounts on its Hotmail email service following a spike in hackers plundering passwords and posting...

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