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Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers — Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. — The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts …
Criminals are deploying more targeted ways of using legitimate brands on the Internet to trick consumers into revealing their confidential payment account information, such as account numbers and passwords, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, or APWG …
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A computer system at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was hacked and bugged with malicious software, potentially exposing the names and Social Security numbers of about 75,000 students, faculty and staff, the school announced Wednesday. UWM officials …
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Unlike other approaches, Trusted Access assumes a client’s computer is infected with the latest zero-day attack that would go undetected by anti-virus and other software technologies. The IronKey solution includes the Trusted Access USB security device …
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