News tagged with computer attack
Radisson computers accessed without permission
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Radisson Hotels & Resorts said Wednesday its computer systems have been accessed without authorization, affecting an unknown number of people.
Experts disagree on seriousness of attacks on government Web sites
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Government Web sites were operating normally on Wednesday, officials said, after a broad attack on public and private computer systems that targeted sites operated by the White House, the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington ...
Wanted: Computer hackers... to help government
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wanted: Computer hackers. Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.
Hackers grabbed more than 285M records in 2008
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hackers made off with at least 285 million electronic records in 2008, more than in the four previous years combined, according to a new study that shows identity thieves are getting better at exploiting careless ...
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Low-cost strategy developed for curbing computer worms
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Thanks to an ingenious new strategy devised by researchers at University of California, Davis and Intel Corporation, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defenses against self-propagating ...
Email scam targets executives
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Thousands of U.S. executives were targeted in a phishing scam with fake e-mail messages that appear to be official federal court subpoenas.
How a denial-of-service attack works
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Some details about denial-of-service attacks, like the one Thursday against Twitter.
Denial of service denial: New filtering system could protect networks from zombies
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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A way to filter out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, could significantly improve security on government, commercial, and educational systems. Such a filter is reported in ...
SKorea military networks under growing cyber attack
Jun 16, 2009 |
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South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday.
Study Links Photosynthesis Genes to Marine Virus Fitness
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Northeastern University study has shown, for the first time, the effect of individual genes on the fitness of a marine species at the ecosystem level. Using his innovative computer simulation model, ...
Google News mistakes Jackson queries for attack
Jun 27, 2009 |
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A deluge of search queries for Michael Jackson led Google News, the news aggregator of Web search engine Google, to initially believe it was under attack, the Internet giant said on Friday.
How Secure Is Your Network? NIST Model Knows
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data breaches are a recurring nightmare for IT managers responsible for securing not only their company’s confidential data, but possibly also sensitive information belonging to their clients, ...
Dutch researchers crack Internet security of the future
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the ...
Computer scientists work to strengthen online security
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born?
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