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Article | 26/06/2012 Facebook email change sparks user outcry

Facebook users today expressed outrage over what they saw as a unilateral move by the company to replace the display email addresses of all users with...

Article | 7/03/2012 High-profile hacker arrests a coup for FBI, analysts say

Security analysts said that the today's FBI arrest of of several prominent LulzSec and Anonymous hackers demonstrates that U.S. law enforcement agenci...

Article | 30/09/2011 Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel

Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and r...

Article | 29/09/2011 Argonne researchers 'hack' Diebold e-voting system

Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally vote...

Article | 13/09/2011 Vending machine company announces major data breach

Vacationland Vendors, a company that supplies vending machines and games to entertainment venues, has disclosed a data breach affecting about 40,000 p...

Article | 3/09/2011 DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hacki...

Article | 25/08/2011 New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming rep...

Article | 23/08/2011 Yale warns 43,000 about 10-month-long data breach

Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via...

Article | 18/08/2011 Anonymous claims release of BART police officers' data

Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous hacking collective this morning publicly posted the names, home addresses, email addresses and passwords o...

Article | 4/08/2011 Take cyberthreats seriously, says counter-terrorism expert

LAS VEGAS --Warnings about emerging cyberthreats shouldn't be treated with the same skepticism that many government officials showed toward the alarms...

Article | 30/07/2011 Facebook moves 30-petabyte Hadoop cluster to new data center

As the world's largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year.

Article | 26/07/2011 Director of US-CERT quits abruptly

Randy Vickers, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), has resigned from his position without any official explanation fo...

Article | 20/07/2011 'Anonymous' arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says

The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of fourteen individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous hacking group for their alleged pa...

Article | 19/07/2011 Hacker collective Anonymous to launch social networking site

Anonymous, which has claimed credit for several high-profile cyber attacks in recent months, plans to launch what it says will be a new social network...

Article | 25/06/2011 PCI Council says mobile payment apps can meet security standard

The PCI Security Standards Council has released its long-awaited guidance on how mobile payment acceptance applications can meet PCI standards.