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Tesco comes under criticism as company reveals sending unencrypted passwords to account holders
Jul 31, 2012 By ClareTesco has announced that although passwords are held internally in an encrypted form they are sent out to account holders who have lost or forgotten their passwords in plain text. This fact has been known since 2007 when it was first disclosed but to date Tesco has not acted to create a better...
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Mac operating system Mountain Lion has been most successful OS X release in Apple history
Jul 30, 2012 By ClareThe Mac operating system (OS) X Mountain Lion has been available for since the 25 th July and has so far been downloaded over 3 million times. This makes it the most successful OS X released by Apple to date. OS X Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of OS X from IT company Apple. ...
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Black Hat 2012- the premiere conference on information security
Jul 27, 2012 By ClareBlack Hat 2012 was held this year in Las Vegas. The conference aims to bring together the best minds in IT security to look at tomorrow’s information security requirements and threats. The conference ran from 21 st - 26 th July. This year Apple was meant to give a talk which was one of...
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Free Wi- Fi in West End London Launches
Jul 25, 2012 By ClareA free Wi- Fi network has been launced in London by O2. The network is currently available across Oxford Street, Regent Street, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus and Parliament Square. This Wi- Fi IT support network has been organised between O2 and Westminster City...
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Drops in PC hardware sales concerns global market
Jul 20, 2012 By ClareThe drop in PC sales this quarter is a concern as the global market has only just stared to show signs of gradual recovery. IT companies proving PCs such as Dell and HPO have shown the largest loss- 18% and 19% respectively. This slowdown in the West has not been balanced out by the growth of...
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Russia, Ukraine and Panama no longer a safe haven for bot herders
Jul 19, 2012 By ClareAt present there are many high profile cases of large international organisations and collaborations working together to neutralise botnets worldwide. These include the IT company Microsoft and their efforts to disrupt Zeus, a huge network responsible for millions of pounds of theft since it...
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10 hour Sage UK website outage still unexplained
Jul 18, 2012 By ClareUsers started expressing their frustrations on social messaging sites at 10 am on Tuesday 17 th July after they experienced a series of problems with the UK site. Business programs were unable to connect to the website to check for upgrades and UK customers were left without critical software...
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Reuse of passwords between websites have contributed to 3x fraud increase in 2 years
Jul 17, 2012 By ClareResearch inspired by the Yahoo IT security beach last week, where hackers broke onto servers and stole 450,000 passwords which provided access to users personal information including home addresses and birth dates. The credit- checking company Experian has stated that 12 million pieces of...
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02 customers receive apology for outages which left hundreds of thousands with network problems
Jul 13, 2012 By Clare02- has claimed that the network problems which left hundreds of thousands of customers without voice and data connections for periods of time up to 24 hours are now fixed. They have apologised for the inconvenience cause and suggested that anyone still experiencing problems should try ‘turning...
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Hackers target Yahoo resulting in over 400,000 passwords being exposed
Jul 12, 2012 By ClareThe hacking group D33DS has claimed to be behind the attack which led to the IT security breach, revealing over 400,000 passwords linked to the gmail.com, yahoo.com and sol.com e-mail addresses. The IT company Impervia, a security firm has said that it believes that personal details such as...
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