Way back in 2005, a kid named Chris Putnam wrote a computer virus that rapidly spread across Facebook … was able to figure out Putnam was behind the attack. But instead of having Putnam arrested, Facebook hired him. Around the end of 2005, I worked on a …
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Late last month, a security professional in the United Kingdom discovered … It’s activated when a specific phone number calls the handset, connecting to the attacker’s computer and providing access to texts, the address book, the phone’s location and …
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TDi Technologies, the leader in IT Foundation Management, today announced that Chief Security Officer Clyde Poole CISSP will be presenting on the importance and challenge of defending against the insider threat at the Computer Forensics Show in San Francisco.
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But they may be amenable to having their Internet provider warn them of cyber attacks and help them clear the malicious software off their computers by providing instructions, patches or anti-virus programs. They may even be willing to pay a small price …
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