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January 17, 2015
Max Mosley begins court action to stop Google showing pictures of sex party
Max Mosley begins court action to stop Google showing pictures of sex party: Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One racing, has begun a UK high court action to stop Google showing pictures of him at a sex party. Having won similar claims in French and German courts, Mosley’s lawyers have now initiated action […]
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January 16, 2015
Italian Reaper drones to be used for crowd monitoring
Italian Reaper drones to be used for crowd monitoring: ROME – As their deployment to Afghanistan comes to an end, unarmed Italian Reaper UAVs are to be used to monitor soccer games and demonstrations in Italy’s cities, following a deal struck between the Italian Air Force and the country’s police forces. The agreement, which could […]
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January 16, 2015
British hacker linked to attack on Pentagon Twitter feed: sources
British hacker linked to attack on Pentagon Twitter feed: sources: The “CyberCaliphate” hacking group that attacked a Twitter account belonging to the Pentagon on Monday was founded by a Briton who was once jailed for hacking the personal address book of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to government sources and private sector security […]
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January 16, 2015
5 Colleges With Data Breaches Larger Than Sony’s in 2014
5 Colleges With Data Breaches Larger Than Sony’s in 2014 : We have all heard about the damage caused by the Sony Hack. However, as I posted last week, the Sony Hack was not even one of the top thirty largest data breaches of 2014 in terms of number of files breached. According to information from […]
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January 16, 2015
Pittsburgh Police Chief McLay has officers sign memo not to leak info
Pittsburgh Police Chief McLay has officers sign memo not to leak info: A city administration that prides itself on transparency and openness said Wednesday it supports a message to police officers to zip their lips or face discipline. Pittsburgh police Chief Cameron McLay ordered officers and other police employees this week to sign a “memorandum […]
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January 16, 2015
Bogus Oracle Patches Flung by Malicious Websites
Bogus Oracle Patches Flung by Malicious Websites: Anyone experiencing error messages from Oracle database software should proceed to download a fix, but only from official locations, engineers with the company warned. It appears that they have received information that different websites claim to provide patches for real problems with the software, but deliver malware instead. […]
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January 16, 2015
France sees 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage
France sees 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage: Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyberdefense official said Thursday as the president tried to calm the nation’s inflamed religious tensions. France is on edge since last week’s attacks, which began Jan. 7 […]
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January 16, 2015
Scams Promoting Luxury Products Are Never Out of Style
Scams Promoting Luxury Products Are Never Out of Style: Generally, scams with phones are carried out before and a short while after the device is launched, but both iPhone 6 and especially Samsung Galaxy S4 are far from being fresh devices. Despite this, crooks continue to use them as bait for unsuspecting users. Jovi Umawing […]
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January 16, 2015
Spear-Fishing Website Hosts Outlook Web App Phishing Page
Spear-Fishing Website Hosts Outlook Web App Phishing Page: A Russian website designed for spear-fishing activities has been compromised to host a phishing page seeking to capture the log-in details for Outlook Web App. Security researchers who observed the campaign discovered that it was targeted at recipients within universities and relied on a very realistic-looking fraudulent […]
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January 16, 2015
A.G. Schneiderman Proposes Bill To Strengthen Data Security Laws, Protect Consumers From Growing Threat Of Data Breaches
A.G. Schneiderman Proposes Bill To Strengthen Data Security Laws, Protect Consumers From Growing Threat Of Data Breaches: NEW YORK—Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that he would propose legislation in Albany to overhaul New York State’s data security law and require new and unprecedented safeguards for the personal data of consumers. Currently, New York […]