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Hollywood’s Elite Data Centers Must Deliver Star IT Performances

Some companies need data centers capable of sending and receiving petabytes' worth of data. Others require reliable connections to sites half a world away. Others still must scale up, then down, at a moment's notice. The firms that help

12 Jun 2012 8 mins

Data and Information Security Servers Virtualization

Flame Malware Made in the USA (We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!)

So what if the U.S. critical-utilities infrastructure is less secure than a child's piggy bank? So what if our government’s defense and intelligence networks are more compromised than a herd of Kardashians? Americans made the Ferrari of

12 Jun 2012 3 mins

Malware Security

Dutch Citizen Charged with Fraud, Identity Theft in Hacking Case

David Benjamin Schrooten was extradited from Romania to the U.S. in March

11 Jun 2012 2 mins

Cybercrime Fraud Legal

MySQL Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Password Verification

Exploit code is available for a MySQL authentication bypass vulnerability

11 Jun 2012 3 mins

Data Management Patch Management Software Security

Security Researchers Discover Link Between Stuxnet and Flame

Securing sensitive data from outside attacks u2013 or unhappy employees u2013 begins with the basics. But it doesnu2019t end there. rn

15 May 2018 4 mins

Security

Security Researchers Discover Link Between Stuxnet and Flame

Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs have found evidence that the development teams behind the Flame and Stuxnet cyberespionage threats collaborated with each other.

11 Jun 2012 3 mins

Intrusion Detection Software Security

European League of Legends Game Players have Their Account Data Compromised

League of Legends developer notifies users that hackers have breached its European databases

11 Jun 2012 3 mins

Data Breach Encryption Security

Cybersecurity News Roundup: Stolen Passwords; FBI and Stuxnet; Google and Gov’t Hacking

This week's IT security roundup has news stories on a number of high-profile password thefts; an FBI investigation into who leaked confidential government data on cyberattacks on Iran; Android malware; and more.rn

9 Jun 2012 3 mins

Data Breach Malware Security

Flame’s Windows Update Hack Required World-Class Cryptanalysis, Researchers Say

The Flame cyber-espionage malware makes use of a previously unknown cryptographic attack variant that required world-class cryptanalysis to develop, experts from the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer science (CWI) said on Th

8 Jun 2012 3 mins

Encryption Malware Security

How Charles Dickens Helped Crack Your Linkedin Password

Researchers are using words from classic novels to crack the LinkedIn password hashes

8 Jun 2012 4 mins

Security

1.5M eHarmony Passwords Stolen Along With LinkedIn Data

This week's high-profile LinkedIn-password hack just got more interesting; an additional 1.5 million passwords for online-dating site eHarmony were also apparently stolen and posted on a Russian forum for hackers.

7 Jun 2012 2 mins

Cybercrime Data Breach Data and Information Security

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Hollywood’s Elite Data Centers Must Deliver Star IT Performances

Flame Malware Made in the USA (We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!)

Dutch Citizen Charged with Fraud, Identity Theft in Hacking Case

MySQL Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Password Verification

Security Researchers Discover Link Between Stuxnet and Flame

Security Researchers Discover Link Between Stuxnet and Flame

European League of Legends Game Players have Their Account Data Compromised

Cybersecurity News Roundup: Stolen Passwords; FBI and Stuxnet; Google and Gov’t Hacking

Flame’s Windows Update Hack Required World-Class Cryptanalysis, Researchers Say

How Charles Dickens Helped Crack Your Linkedin Password

1.5M eHarmony Passwords Stolen Along With LinkedIn Data