SAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft on Wednesday warned that hackers use mind tricks more often than software skills to get viruses into computers. Feedback from the … “Social-engineering attacks, like tricking a user into running a malicious program, are far …
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Computer security is a difficult and finicky world, but Microsoft has succeeded in providing pretty decent protection for their Windows systems. This is somewhat of a surprise, as Microsoft began (more than a decade ago) as arguably the least attentive and …
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TEHRAN – An Iranian military commander has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the United States and Israel launch a cyber attack on its … of the impact of the virus. It said in September that staff computers at the Russian-built …
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Columbia — The University of South Carolina experienced a computer security breach that exposed on the Internet the Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 31,000 faculty, staff, retirees and students. The breach was discovered in …
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