The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out. Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots …
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The level of sophistication of attacks shows the growing difficulty in guarding against cyber criminals. “I long for the days of the Melissa and ‘I love you’ computer viruses,” says Parenty, referring e-mail viruses that circulated the globe in 1999 and …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple still trying to land films, TV shows for iCloud — Feature films could be part of Apple’s iCloud launch next week. — In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple …
Senior Labor figures have demanded an overhaul of the party’s security systems after claiming to have tracked down alleged computer hacking to The Age newspaper. The Age has admitted being provided access to Labor’s electoral database, but denied computer hacking.
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