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- Future of touchscreen. Video well worth watching about future glass technology http://t.co/zqyBrMTt about 1 day ago
- Hackers find way around online banking identity security systems http://t.co/5fEXASp1 about 2 days ago
- IPv6 transition - a layman's guide http://t.co/36EXhGlP about 4 days ago
- Google's privacy options - how to navigate them http://t.co/p0N5uwTS about 5 days ago
- UK’s first freephone mobile number launched by Jersey's JT http://t.co/8nMT4PYJ about 5 days ago
- What to do if your Twitter account is hacked http://t.co/g0GPUxwW about 6 days ago
- France to announce VAT increase to 21.2% (increase of 1.6%) about 1 week ago
- Symantec advise to stop using their pcAnywhere product right now, following theft of blueprints http://t.co/gbi4Nhqp about 1 week ago
- Serious flaw emerges in quantum cryptography http://t.co/kTaXiIW4 about 1 week ago
- Data protection - More EU regulation changes on the way http://t.co/irqxFR7a about 1 week ago
incidents Archive
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Spanish police arrests for one of world’s biggest botnets
Posted on April 19, 2010 | No CommentsSpanish police have arrested three men responsible for one of the world's biggest networks of virus-infected computers. All three men are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills. The 'Mariposa' botnet was made up of nearly 13 million computers in 190 countries, including PCs inside more than half of Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks. -
Barclays Bank programmer jailed over TJX hack
Posted on April 18, 2010 | 1 CommentHumza Zaman, a former Barclays Bank programmer was sentenced to four years in jail for helping the ‘TJX’ hacker Albert Gonzalez launder funds he gained through cyber crimes. -
Criminals install fraudulent terminals at retailer
Posted on April 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe USA retailer Hancock Fabrics warned customers that PIN pad units at several of its stores were stolen and replaced with "visually identical, but fraudulent" units during 2009, which puts card data at risk. -
32 Million passwords published
Posted on April 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe social site ‘RockYou’ suffered a data breached that resulted in the exposure of more than 32 Million user accounts. To further compound the security breach severity, it was found that RockYou were storing all the user account data in their database in plain text. This made it easier for hackers to obtain and expose the information.
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