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Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Graham Cluley, a Sophos security researcher, said: "I think there is a problem with ad networks, in general. Many ad networks are scanning ads manually, but ad content can easily be changed after a... [16 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Gonzalez, along with 10 others from China, Eastern Europe and the US were accused in August 2008 of breaking into retail credit card payment systems using wardriving (searching for unsecured wireless networks while... [14 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News In these cases, IBM is building the software and networks to handle incoming data from sensors and to provide tools to let people analyse the information. It's also testing smart water meters that would... [08 Sep 2009]
Cisco wireless LAN: At risk from 'skyjack' attack
News Researchers at AirMagnet, which makes intrusion-detection systems for WLANs, discovered the vulnerability, which affects all lightweight Cisco wireless access points, as well as the exploit that could be used against... [25 Aug 2009]
BlackBerry app store echoes Apple with online version
News A large carousel shows screenshots of the app, and there's a list of hyperlinked icons that you can use to virally share information about the app with email contacts or with your social networks. For those with... [19 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News The three men were indicted on charges of conspiring to hack into computer networks and stealing data as far back as October 2006. They also allegedly installed backdoors and sniffers to intercept... [18 Aug 2009]
Optimistic CEOs must not neglect IT security
News We secure networks; however in the average bin of the photocopying room there are many company secrets waiting to be picked up. Commissioned by Ounce Labs, the survey of more than 200 executives revealed that CEOs were... [03 Aug 2009]
Mobile WiMax won't win race to become 4G king
News Mobile WiMax could serve a substantial niche market in the UK but is unlikely to be deployed in any nationwide networks, a member of a key industry group has said. Most operators in the Western world appear to have... [23 Jul 2009]
Machine shall speak unto machine: Vodafone goes M2M
News Such projects use mobile networks for their connectivity, and Vodafone said in a statement that its experience will help companies centrally manage the process of rolling out machine-to-machine (M2M) devices across many... [22 Jul 2009]
Email hits 3G networks harder than P2P
News Mike Schabel, a research director at Bell Labs, said on Thursday that P2P and web surfing account for much of the volume of data carried by mobile broadband networks, but inefficiently managed... [20 Jul 2009]
BT lands £99m comms deal with Ministry of Defence
News BT on Thursday announced a five-year, £99m contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to manage voice and data networks across 197 military bases. The commencement of this service for defence represents... [17 Jul 2009]
4,000 Indian jobs go as BT brings call centre work back to UK
News In separate news, BT announced it has been awarded a Ministry of Defence contract worth £99m over five years for managed voice and data networks in more than a quarter of a million MoD assets, including... [16 Jul 2009]
BBC's iPlayer is mobile's most wanted
News The iPlayer looks poised to have a similar impact on mobile networks as it has in the fixed-line world," the CCS Insight report adds. The application may be an exciting prospect for viewers but the implications of... [13 Jul 2009]
Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming starts to flow
News The company has a "flow manager", the FR-1000, which Roberts says can "the FR-1000, can replace routers and DPI systems or may simply be added to existing networks". They treat the video packets as loose... [13 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute... [03 Jul 2009]
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