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Russian crime group carries out “largest ever” hack
In what’s being described as the “largest data breach ever”, a Russian cybercrime group has amassed more than 1.2 billion user credentials, including some 500 million email addresses and logins, from over 420,000 websites across the world. The enormous stockpile of stolen data was unearthed by researchers from Hold Security, LLC., the company that first ...
Sneaky virus ‘Poweliks’ lives in the registry. Good luck finding it.
New malware has been dubbed “Poweliks”, and it’s quite ingenious. Instead of masquerading as a file like 99.9 percent of computer virus nasties do, this malware latches onto the computer’s registry, where it’s almost impossible to detect. It installs itself via malicious Word documents before creating a hidden encoded autostart registry key, which allows it ...
Oracle’s Solaris 11.2 slaps on support for OpenStack and SDN
Oracle Corp. has just pushed out a new release of its Solaris enterprise Unix platform, adding several enhancements that include OpenStack integration and various security, performance and compliance boosters. The most interesting addition to Oracle Solaris 11.2, which was launched in beta test in April, is OpenStack support. Solaris 11.2 runs the OpenStack Havana version of ...
Docker ships out dotCloud to focus on containers
Before Docker, Inc., began making headlines with its namesake container software, it was a platform as a service (PaaS) provider known as “dotCloud.” Thanks to Docker’s success, though, the company is abandoning its roots and selling its dotCloud platform to the German firm cloudControl GmbH, which is hoping to expand in the US. Docker’s containerization technology began life as ...
Microsoft’s Surface tablets ‘touch down’ on the NFL sidelines
NFL players and coaches alike will no longer need to sit on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs if Microsoft has its way. The software giant has just agreed a deal to provide every NFL team with a bunch of modified Surface Pro 2 tablets. This is apparently not just a creative marketing tactic by Redmond ...
Symantec: Wearables can be hacked to track workouts and even sexual activity
Here’s some jarring news for those who love to automatically tweet and track their exercise, sleep and sex routines. Adherents of “quantified self” might learn more about themselves, but they’re also making it possible for hackers to do the same. At least that’s what Symantec Corp. says. Using customized Raspberry Pi computers, Symantec’s security experts were ...
Researchers claim Google can predict the stock market
A group of British researchers believes they can harness the power of Wikipedia and Google searches to predict where the economy is going. The research comes just a few months after Google Search’s Big Data was dismissed as a predictive tool, following reports that Google Flu Trends was way off the mark when it came ...
Twitter notes sharp rise in government requests for user data
Twitter has just released its latest transparency report, revealing a 50 percent rise in the number of user data requests over the last six months. A total of 54 governments made requests for data tied to specific user accounts, with eight of those nations doing so for the first time. In total, Twitter received 2,058 ...
Microsoft ordered to let Feds snoop inside its overseas servers
Microsoft has just lost a key court case that could result in it being forced to give U.S. authorities access to its overseas data centers. On Thursday, District Judge Loretta Preska of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, said that a warrant issued by US authorities that seeks access to ...
BadUSB exploit can hack any device, and there’s no cure in sight
Ready for another security scare? Good, because every single USB device that you plug into your computer could pose a threat that’s worse than any malware. It really is as bad as it sounds. Security researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell of SR Labs have stumbled upon a flaw in every single USB device ever ...