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Worst data breaches of 2014…So far

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Worst data breaches of 2014…So far
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On Twitter, FaceBook and Lady Gaga – DARPA social media research stirs a murky pot
Reuters Lady Gaga  Reuters DARPA’s two-year old program to better understand and perhaps ultimately influence social media has begun to bear fruit but some of that harvest is raising a stink.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

Digital certificate breach at Indian authority also targeted Yahoo domains, possibly others
The full scope of the security breach is currently unknown, a Google security engineer said Read More


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Microsoft settles with No-IP in botnet hunt, after seizing its domains
Microsoft "regrets any inconvenience" caused by service outages Read More

Botnet brute-forces remote access to point-of-sale systems
A new malware threat scans the Internet for POS systems and tries to access them using common usernames and passwords Read More


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FBI warns businesses "Man-in-the-E-Mail" scam escalating
The FBI and Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) are warning businesses to be on the lookout for growing scam that tricks them into paying invoices from established that look legitimate but in fact are fraudulent.The FBI says the scam is a tweak of the timeworn “man-in-the-middle” scam and usually involves chief technology officers, chief financial officers, or comptrollers, receiving an e-mail via their business accounts purportedly from a vendor requesting a wire transfer to a designated bank account, the FBI said. +More on Network World: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

Google blocks bogus digital certificates issued in India
It's unclear how the certificates were issued by the country's National Informatics Centre Read More


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