MedStar Health Inc. said Wednesday that hackers who seriously disrupted its operations and held some data hostage did not exploit software vulnerabilities that were the subjects of warnings in 2007 and 2010 to break into ...
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Apr 6, 2016
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Between your home network and the internet sits your broadband router. This humble device is often overlooked, yet it is also your first line of defence against hackers, malware and viruses.
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Dec 9, 2015
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When researchers from Microsoft and the French research organization INRIA discovered and helped fix three serious security vulnerabilities in a popular system for enabling secure Internet transactions, many people assumed ...
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Nov 19, 2015
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Technology publications call 2015 "the year of the car hack."
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Oct 23, 2015
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For software programmers, security tools are analytic software that can scan or run their code to expose vulnerabilities long before the software goes to market. But these tools can have shortcomings, and programmers don't ...
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Aug 24, 2015
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Following the trend of giving catchy names to serious operating system security flaws, the Linux vulnerability revealed recently by security researchers Qualys has been called Ghost.
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Feb 3, 2015
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(Phys.org)—How secure is completely secure? In the world of secure communication, a scheme may be completely secure until it's not—that is, until an attack is proposed that reveals a weak spot in the scheme. This is what's ...
Cybersecurity firm FireEye warned Monday that hackers could trick owners of Apple gadgets into installing applications that steal information.
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Nov 10, 2014
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The US government and technology experts warned Thursday of a vulnerability in some computer-operating systems, including Apple's Mac OS, which could allow widespread and serious attacks by hackers.
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Sep 25, 2014
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The government's own watchdogs say they tried to hack into HealthCare.gov earlier this year and found what they termed a critical vulnerability.
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Sep 23, 2014
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