It settled two lawsuits for $610,000 last fall. In addition to Atlanta-based Aaron’s, the Byrds have sued Pennsylvania-based DesignerWare, the computer security company that allegedly provided Aaron’s with the spying software. Precedent suggests that i …
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Despite being a $40 billion a year global industry, cyber security is facing a crisis of confidence. The escalation of the “Hack Du Jour” from simple identity theft, large scale data breaches, corporate and government espionage and Wikileaks …
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advising her that her computer system had detected a virus and that she should do a scan. Unfortunately, she clicked yes, and this fake-security warning led to her computer becoming as infected as a little kid after the first day of preschool. She’s …
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In the years since Symantec ( SYMC ) went public in 1989, the company best known as the maker of Norton anti-virus software has hit a few bumps … the IT world faces increasingly sophisticated attacks from hackers, fraudsters, phishers, identity pirates …
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