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Article | 16/05/2013 Tibco offers free R to the enterprise
Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs,...
Article | 10/05/2013 The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked
Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the pub...
Article | 5/05/2013 Pentagon nod shows Android can be as secure as BlackBerry
Samsung's Knox system for Android devices gets approval for use in government and military like the BlackBerry, once the gold standard
Article | 3/05/2013 Systems manager arrested for hacking former employer's network
A 41-year-old man was arrested for allegedly disrupting his former employer's network after he was passed over for promotions, leading him to quit his...
Article | 2/05/2013 Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers
The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located...
Article | 2/05/2013 Goverment mulls data breach notification law, but details are secret
Australia's government is keeping a tight hold on proposed data breach notification legislation that could become law before a federal election in Sep...
Article | 25/04/2013 Civil rights coalition says EU data protection bill threatens citizens' rights
A coalition of international civil liberties organizations on Thursday said that some of the proposed changes to Europe's data protection laws would s...
Article | 24/04/2013 Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption featur...
Article | 24/04/2013 FireEye finds Gh0stRAT cyberespionage campaigns continue
A well-known cyber-spying tool called Gh0st RAT is still being employed in stealthy malware attacks, according to a new report from security firm Fire...
Article | 24/04/2013 AP Twitter hack prompts fresh look at cybersecurity needs
Getting hacked on Twitter is fast becoming a rite of passage for big corporations, but Tuesday's attack on the Associated Press could be a tipping poi...
Article | 23/04/2013 One in five data breaches are the result of cyberespionage, Verizon says
Even though the majority of data breaches continue to be the result of financially motivated cybercriminal attacks, cyberespionage activities are also...
Article | 22/04/2013 Germans fine Google for gathering personal data with Street View cars
Google must pay a €145,000 (US$190,000) fine in Germany for gathering and storing emails, photos, passwords and chat protocols from unprotected Wi-Fi ...
Article | 18/04/2013 House approves CISPA over privacy objections
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House a...
Article | 17/04/2013 US House moves toward passage of CISPA
The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite conc...
Article | 17/04/2013 Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication
Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the lo...