Beck listened with rapt attention as an officer explained a point.
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Beck listened with rapt attention as an officer explained a point.
“ Password-based security mechanisms — which can be cracked, reset, and socially engineered — no longer suffice in the era of cloud computing.”
If you haven’t read Gizmodo writer Mat Honan’s gut-wrenching play-by-play of how his entire digital life was evaporated in the matter of hours, do yourself a favor and Instapaper it. Or, if you’re too busy to read the whole article, I’ve created a quick-and-dirty summary that retraces the hacker’s steps and highlights some steps we can take to protect ourselves from similar attacks.
Below is a media alert from Trusteer on a new financial malware targeting banks with a full bag of tricks for avoiding AV detection.
Shenzhen, China: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, last week launched a UMTS Small Data Packet Storm solution that aims to ease challenges arising from the widespread use of smartphones and mobile broadband (MBB) applications.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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