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Trojans Jessica Hardy Leads USC Charge at Speedo Grand Challenge
Swimming WorldIRVINE, California, May 24. THE Speedo Grand Challenge kicked off today with its first day of competition. The Trojan Swim Club dominated the first night of finals, with Jessica Hardy collecting a double.The interesting part of the Grand Challenge is that it limits its championship finals to four swimmers.Stanford's Maya Dirado opened the evening with a sizzling time of 2:12.44 in the ...
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New Anti-Theft Software Captures Criminals and More
YahooInternet security has always been a serious concern with the number of viruses, trojans, worms and malware applications out there. PCKeeper is a next generation internet security software that can protect users from threats online and ...
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New Android trojan can thwart two-factor authentication
Info SecurityMobile malware growth hits all-time high Researchers continue to find that the pace of mobile malware development is accelerating. A total of 22,750 new modifications of malicious programs targeting mobile devices were detected this past quarter by Kaspersky Lab, which is more than half of the total number of modifications detected in all of 2012. A full 99.9% of them target the Android ...
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Schnucks wants federal court to handle data breach lawsuit
ComputerworldComputerworld - The St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnuck Markets has claimed that a potential class action lawsuit filed against it in an Illinois state court over a recent data breach really belongs in federal court because of the case's scope and damages involved. In a motion for removal filed earlier this month, Schnucks noted that the damages claimed by the plaintiff in the case easily ...
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Google builds bigger crypto keys to make site forgeries harder
Ars TechnicaGoogle is upgrading the digital certificates used to secure its Gmail, Calendar, and Web search services. Beginning on August 1, the company will start upgrading the RSA keys used to encrypt Web traffic and authenticate to 2048-bits, twice as many as are used now. The rollout affects the transport layer security (TLS) certificates that underpin HTTPS connections to Google properties. Sometimes ...
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Researchers Warn of Increased Zeus Malware Activity This Year
CIOThe amount of cybercriminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend ...
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Symantec quietly retires PC Tools security product lines
Virus BulletinSales of Spyware Doctor and other security products end, support to continue for existing users. Symantec has quietly announced the end of life the of PC Tools security product lines, including PC Tools Spyware Doctor, PC Tools Spyware Doctor with Antivirus and PC Tools Internet Security. Users with existing subscriptions will be supported for the length of those subscriptions, but will need ...
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Feds slam hacker-friendly backdoors in jalopy grub factories
The RegisterSecurity researchers have uncovered hard-coded user accounts that could act as backdoors into food, car, and agricultural production systems across the world. The flaw, which allows attackers to launch remote exploits, was found in a pair of industrial control ...
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Googles latest Penguin update lets you squeal on spammy websites -- as well as anyone else
ComputerWorld AUThe 2.0 label was applied, according to Cutts, because the update is a major one -- it includes changes to the underlying algorithms used to evaluate whether a website is spammy or not, not just the dataset Google uses. About 2.3% of queries in U.S. English will be visibly affected by the ...
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Researchers find unusual malware targeting Tibetan users in cyberespionage operation
ComputerworldIDG News Service - Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET discovered a piece of cyberespionage malware targeting Tibetan activists that uses unusual techniques to evade detection and achieve persistency on infected systems. The malware, which was dubbed Win32/Syndicasec.A, bypasses the UAC (User Account Control) mechanism in Windows to run arbitrary commands with elevated privileges ...
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Twitter SMS authentication security won’t stop attacks say experts
TechworldTwitter’s long overdue rollout of two-factor authentication doesn’t plug every angle of attack and won’t guarantee that customer accounts aren’t compromised in future, experts have warned. Twitter introduced ...
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Q1 2013 Game Changer for Android Malware
F-Securerecords a list of firsts for Android malware, including the first non-app-related distribution. The count of new Android threats rose by 49 percent.Helsinki, Finland – May 14, 2013: The first quarter of 2013 was marked by firsts for Android malware that add complexity to the Android threat landscape. According to F-Secure Labs’ latest Mobile Threat Report, January through March saw ...
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Google to Lengthen SSL Encryption Keys From August
CIOIDG News Service - Google plans to upgrade the security of its SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, an important component of secure communications. SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which a user is interacting. Its strength lies in the length of the private signing keys used for the certificates. Keys that are less than 1,024 ...
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Microsoft brushes off claim Xbox Live accounts were compromised
ComputerworldIDG News Service - Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service. The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle ...
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Could the Bitcoin Network Be Used As an Ultrasecure Notary Service
CIOIDG News Service - Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money. Araoz, who works in game development, launched a service this week ...
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