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Executives tell us their password security best practices – ITBusiness.ca


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Executives tell us their password security best practices
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To mark October as Cyber Security Awareness month, we asked leaders in our community this question: Data breaches containing password information have become a regular occurrence. At the beginning of October, Yahoo revealed that its 2013 data …

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Data breaches could cost Yahoo up to $350M USD, Reuters says – ITBusiness.ca

Data breaches could cost Yahoo up to $ 350M USD, Reuters says
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Citing sources familiar with the matter, Reuters and Bloomberg are reporting that Verizon Communications Inc. now plans to buy the former Internet giant for up to $ 350 million (all figures USD) less than the $ 4.8 billion it originally promised, thanks

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DDoS attacks now coming from mobile apps, Prolexic report says – ITBusiness.ca

DDoS attacks now coming from mobile apps, Prolexic report says
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In the fourth quarter of 2013, a team of security engineers at Prolexic uncovered a case where hackers were targeting a major, unnamed financial services firm located in Asia using AnDOSid, an Android operating system app. (Image: Prolexic). AnDOSid

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Bitcoin mining botnet ZeroAccess tops Fortinet’s threat landscape report – ITBusiness.ca

Bitcoin mining botnet ZeroAccess tops Fortinet's threat landscape report
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The report wasn't all Bitcoin-related, though. A massive malware attack targeted South Korean banks and television networks in March, apparently using the Viper malware. And two new aware variants were identified propagating on Android devices, Android.

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