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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Hundreds of Go Daddy sites were compromised to point towards a site hosting malware last weekend.
The mass hack of around 445 sites involved the injection of hostile code into the .htaccess files of the sites. |
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Source: PC Advisor - Posted by Dave Wreski
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In December 2010, a group of nearly 3000 activists under the name "Operation Payback" launched online attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, briefly knocking the three financial services' sites offline and preventing consumers from accessing ATMs or online banking services. |
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Source: Director of Finance - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Cloud providers that store client data on shared or virtual servers must ensure that private customer information cannot be accessed in the event of a cyber attack or a server being hacked, according to search specialists, Simplexo. |
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Source: Computer World - Posted by Alex
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Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Google has taken the unprecedented step of warning millions of users whose PCs it believes are infected with fake security software and other malware, the company said yesterday. But some security experts are leery of Google's move. |
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Source: The Inquirer - Posted by Anthony Pell
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BLACK BOX CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS are being shunned by firms looking to backup data due to security concerns.
Cloud deployments, which have gained popularity in the past five years through the promise of accessing seemingly unlimited resources conjured up out of thin air, are being shunned for use as redundant storage due to fears about data security. |
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Alex
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Network solutions is reporting on two consecutive DDoS attacks which hit the company’s networks. According to the company, its engineers quickly took care of the issue, although some users continue reporting issues with access to web and email services: |
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Source: LA Times - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Outsourcing computer tasks to firms that maintain huge data centers around the world may not be as safe as billed, despite the cloud's potential for cost savings and reducing the hassles of running in-house servers, security experts say. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Turkey responded to the hacking group Anonymous with 32 arrests following attacks on government websites, according to the country's state-run news agency. |
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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Less than 20 percent of organizations using virtualization technology are adopting security tools to work in tandem with the software in order to decrease the risks that are inherent in a virtualized environment. This according to John Burke, Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, who spoke Tuesday at the IT Roadmap Conference and Expo in Boston about the emerging threats posed to mobile and virtual environments. |
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