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Small Businesses are Easy Pickin's for Hackers
SECURITY, BUSINESS, BLOGS NEWS
Small businesses are being heavily targeted by hackers and identity thieves.
On 7/10/2012 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more
Infographic: Hacktivism Charges the Virtual Wars
SECURITY NEWS
The past 18 months saw a radical increase in the amount of hacking activities and now we’ve received an infographic that describes the trend.
On 3/27/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Valve Apologizes: Steam Hacked, Around 40 Million Gamers Compromised
SECURITY, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Valve Corporation disclosed that the Steam digital download service has been hacked and that close to 40 million accounts were compromised, including credit card information.
On 11/10/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Is Bank of America Being Hit With DDoS Attacks?
SECURITY, BUSINESS NEWS
Officially, Bank of America says they have not been hacked. However, during last weekend Bank of America (BofA) was waving the white flag of surrender with their online banking notification below.
On 10/6/2011 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more

InMotion Hosting Servers Hacked, Thousands of Web Sites Affected
CLOUD COMPUTING, SECURITY, SOFTWARE NEWS
For nearly all of Sunday, InMotion Hosting's website customers were showing a hacked web page.
On 9/25/2011 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more
Global Security Attacks Intensify: US Senate, IMF, Banks and Game Companies
SECURITY ANALYSIS
In the past few weeks, reports have roamed the web about hacks of Sony by the comically named organization LulzSec. But also other companies have been broken into, namely Nintendo, Codemasters and Epic Games.
On 6/13/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more

How Good is Your Computer Security Product?
SECURITY, SOFTWARE ANALYSIS
Gerry Egan from Symantec presented "Making Sense of 3rd Party Efficiency Tests" to Next@Norton attendees. He pointed out that every security product has a different set of protection features.
On 6/11/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more
Next@Norton in San Francisco Exposes Security Weaknesses
SECURITY, SOFTWARE NEWS
Symantec gathered staff, reporters, forum gurus, and other interested parties in San Francisco for an update on what is happening in the security arena.
On 6/7/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more

Raiders of Square Enix Wreck Havoc as Profits Fall
SOFTWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
The publisher of such popular games as Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy was hit with a double whammy. Hackers broke into several websites of Square Enix as they were releasing last year’s financial results.
On 5/16/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more
Spear Phishing Didn’t Snag Canada's Financial Data
SECURITY NEWS
Hackers got into the Canadian Treasury Board and Finance Department by spear phising, but were foiled by the country’s cyber security system.
On 2/24/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more

Hotmail Breach shows off the dangers of the Cloud...
CLOUD COMPUTING, SECURITY ANALYSIS
With the latest breach of a web based mail system, we have to wonder if cloud computing is really going to be safe or is it all just a pipe-dream.
On 10/6/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more
SNAFU: MySpace bans 50K IP addresses - including Sony!
SECURITY, BUSINESS NEWS

Gawker ran a story claiming that Sony Picture Entertainment was banned from MySpace. We diged and found out what really happened with those 50,000 banned IP addresses.

On 5/16/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

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