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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army
— Twitter accounts belonging to The Guardian newspaper have fallen at the hands of hackers belonging to the Syrian Electronic Army. — The hackers have been making a habit of breaking into high profile Twitter accounts in recent weeks …
Apr 29, 2013, 2:30 PM–
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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Syrian Electronic Army hacks NPR, vandalizes headlines
— The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have hacked into accounts belonging to the NPR media network, and defaced news stories overnight. — A Google search for the phrase “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here” reveals some evidence of webpages that were hit in the attack.
Apr 16, 2013, 2:05 PM–
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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Jailed cybercriminal hacked into his own prison's computer system after being put in IT class
— Here's a piece of advice for those running classes training prisoners about information technology. — It's probably not a good idea to let notorious hackers join the course - or, if you do …
Mar 4, 2013, 2:35 PM–
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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
BlackBerry warns of TIFF vulnerability that could allow malware to run on enterprise servers
— If you are responsible for administering the BlackBerry phones used by staff at your company, there's some imporant security news. — According to a BlackBerry security advisory published last week …
Feb 18, 2013, 9:25 PM–
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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly
— Although Tumblr is now cleaning-up pages which were affected by today's worm, SophosLabs was able to briefly explore how the infection spread. — It appears that the worm took advantage of Tumblr's reblogging feature, meaning that anyone who was logged …
Dec 3, 2012, 3:25 PM–
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| Fraser Howard / Naked Security: |
Hacked Go Daddy sites infecting users with ransomware
— Users are getting infected with ransomware thanks to criminals managing to hack the DNS records of Go Daddy hosted websites. — That's not welcome news for the world's largest domain name registrar, especially so soon after the recent denial of service attack.
Nov 23, 2012, 8:50 PM–
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| Lisa Vaas / Naked Security: |
India spews more spam than ever before, report finds
— You can thank India for about one out of six spam messages cluttering your inbox. — SophosLabs's most recent “dirty dozen” report, which details the world's top spam-relaying countries, finds that India has topped the charts for the third quarter in a row.
Oct 16, 2012, 7:50 PM–
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| Paul Roberts / Naked Security: |
Attacks on Java security hole hidden in bogus Microsoft Services Agreement email
— Online scammers are using a recent email from Microsoft as bait in a widespread spam campaign that exploits vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java software to install malicious programs on vulnerable systems.
Sep 3, 2012, 5:10 PM–
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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Mac malware spies on infected users through video and audio capture
— After further analysis, more information has emerged about the Morcut Mac OS X malware (also known as “Crisis” by some anti-virus products) which was discovered this week. — Clearly OSX/Morcut-A was created with spying in mind …
Jul 26, 2012, 3:30 PM–
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| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Privacy concerns over popular ShowIP Firefox add-on
— A popular Firefox add-on appears to have started leaking private information about every website that users visit to a third-party server, including sensitive data which could identify individuals or reduce their security.
May 2, 2012, 10:45 AM–
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).