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Ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘em. The Saddam Husseins of the computer hacker world have been caught, US federal authorities have announced. (Of course, it’s the same day I’m rushing to get on a ... Imagine a web browser that sits as an application on your desktop. If you click to open, it delivers you to a previously set website. You can navigate all you want through that particular ... No. At least, that’s the conclusion of a soon-to-be-presented report from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. The paper - based on analysing four years worth of ID theft ... Without a doubt, the two biggest news-making retail breaches in the past year were TJX and Hannaford. TJX lost as little as 11 times and as much as 25 times more records than Hannaford, but both ... In just one week, the IT security world almost certainly lost two hard-nosed cybercrime enforcers. They will leave for different reasons. One will go to a highly coveted job. One will be ... One doesn’t have to think back that far to remember the days when Yahoo was on top of the world. That time is long gone, but other companies are in worse shape – raise your hand if you don’t want ... If you thought Google wasn’t really serious about taking on Microsoft for world domination, you might want to start accepting it. The Wall Street Journal revealed game-changing plans by Google to ... I had a feeling that some people stayed up all night on Sunday waiting for the planned, and announced, al Qaeda cyber-jihad to begin. Thankfully, like the Great Pumpkin, it might just be a ... With the meteoric rise of the Storm Worm - which, by the way, appears nowhere close to demise nearly 11 months after its initial launch - we have been hearing a lot about bots lately. Storm’s ... Apple is no stranger to Microsoft-like patch cycles, and they’ve been coming with increasing frequency in recent months. What the Cupertino, Calif.-based computing giant is not familiar with are ... Real Networks on Friday made a patch available for the zero-day vulnerability in its popular RealPlayer. Symantec researchers, a couple of days earlier, had disclosed a highly critical ActiveX ... Yes, we’ve heard the rumours, and if Symantec does indeed pick up Vontu, it would be a notable (and very expensive) acquisition - but certainly far from surprising. Because in this climate of ... Acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola was the victim of a data breach of his own last month, when armed thieves broke into his Buenos Aires office and stole a computer. Luckily, the computer ... From email attachments to gift cards to announcements about the beginning of the NFL season to online games – that’s what we’ve seen the Storm Worm do lately, switching email-lure tactics. Both ... Sales usually coincide with a holiday or an occasion that conjures up images of backyard barbecuing and family gatherings. In the case of discount clothing retailer TJX, their planned three-day ...