Europe’s youngest app developer Aaron Bond expelled from school
March 8th, 2012 - 10:32 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Mar 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Europe’s youngest app developer, 14-year-old Aaron Bond, has been expelled from his school and given police reprimand after he was caught breaking into his school’s computer system. ... Read more...
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Manning’s mother calls on Hague to check on his deteriorating condition
April 14th, 2011 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr.14 (ANI): Susan Manning, the mother of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking confidential data to WikiLeaks, has called for British Foreign Secretary William Hague to visit her son ... Read more...
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Prosecutors want Roomy Khan tapes in Rajaratnam trial
April 5th, 2011 - 11:29 am ICT by IANS
New York, April 5 (IANS) US prosecutors want to show two surveillance videos of ex-Intel executive Roomy Khan, who allegedly passed on a tip from a former Indian American Moody's ... Read more...
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CIA Initiates WTF, ‘Wikileaks Task Force’, To Evaluate The Harm Produced By Wikileaks
December 23rd, 2010 - 9:07 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
December 23, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The task force, established to appraise the harm engendered by the exposé of clandestine American ambassadorial cables by WikiLeaks, is abbreviated as WTF. This is ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Miller, Law’s phone hacking approved by top News of the World executive
December 16th, 2010 - 6:39 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 16 (ANI): Newly released documents imply that actors Sienna Miller and Jude Law's phones were hacked with the approval of a senior News of the World executive.Lawyers have secured ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
We don’t have ‘master key’ to access encrypted data: BlackBerry (Lead)
August 27th, 2010 - 4:11 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Aug 27 (IANS) With India's Aug 31 deadline for access to its ultra-encrypted messenger and email services approaching, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it has no "master ... Read more...
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BlackBerry says no ‘master key’ to access encrypted data
August 27th, 2010 - 10:18 am ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Aug 27 (IANS) As India's deadline of Aug 31 over access to its ultra-encrypted messenger and email services approaches, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it has no ... Read more...
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Personal Info Of 100 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Accumulated And Printed Online
July 29th, 2010 - 7:54 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 29, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Private particulars of 100 million utilizers of Facebook are now obtainable for download. This frightening development is subsequent to these particulars being leaked ... Read more...
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Mexicans to be fined $3 mn for selling confidential data
April 29th, 2010 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, April 29 (IANS/EFE) Mexican people convicted of selling confidential personal data collected by the government will be fined up to $2.9 million and face five years in prison under a ... Read more...
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Confidential information of millions of Brit patients being sent to India
April 4th, 2010 - 4:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr. 4 (ANI): Despite the British Government's pledge not to send confidential data of patients overseas, the National Health Service (NHS) is sending names addresses and medical reports of millions of ... Read more...
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Cyber attacks worry Indian firms more than terror: study
March 9th, 2010 - 4:43 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, March 9 (IANS) Indian enterprises are more wary of cyber attacks to their IT infrastructure than perceived threats from terrorism and natural disasters, a study by global security solutions provider Symantec ... Read more...
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Germany to buy secret Swiss banking data
February 6th, 2010 - 6:29 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, Feb 6 (DPA) Germany is to buy a CD of confidential data on 1,500 customers at a Swiss bank this weekend, a media report said.
The deal, which is expected to reveal ... Read more...
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Swiss court stops transfer of bank client data to US
January 23rd, 2010 - 7:12 am ICT by IANS
Geneva, Jan 23 (DPA) A Swiss court issued a ruling Friday halting the transfer of UBS AG client data to the United States, putting in doubt a landmark agreement reached over the ... Read more...
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Mexico hires consortium to make biometric IDs
December 16th, 2009 - 2:39 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Dec 16 (EFE) A consortium comprising Axtel and the Mexican subsidiary of US information technology giant Unisys won a contract to create biometric identity cards for Mexico's 107 million people, ... Read more...
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US files for disclosure of 4,500 Swiss accounts
September 1st, 2009 - 5:05 am ICT by IANS
Geneva, Sep 1 (DPA) The US tax agency Monday filed with Swiss authorities for administrative assistance on information related to 4,500 bank accounts, following a deal reached between the two governments earlier ... Read more...
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Confidential Twitter Documents To Be Leaked At TechCrunch
July 15th, 2009 - 6:15 pm ICT by GD
It seems that the Twitter employees have to go through a tough phase as reports suggest that a hacker, who is believed of having plagued the Twitter celebrity accounts previously, has supposedly ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown’s security advisor warns smartphones pose security risk
June 26th, 2009 - 6:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 26 (ANI): Lord West, a security advisor to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has warned that people owning high-tech mobile phones may be at risk of having their personal ... Read more...
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China tightens noose on govt. officials leaking secret data
June 23rd, 2009 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, June 23 (ANI): Chinese government officials will soon be required to think twice before connecting their flash-disks loaded with State secrets into unsecured computers, as they are likely to come under ... Read more...
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Global slump prompts IT staff to snoop on colleagues
June 12th, 2009 - 3:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jun 12 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that the ongoing global economic slump has prompted IT staff to snoop on colleagues.The research conducted on IT workers by Cyber-Ark found that ... Read more...
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Hackers steal details of 4.5 million from Monster jobs site
January 27th, 2009 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, jan.27 (ANI): Hackers gained access to confidential details provided by 4.5 million people to Monster.co.uk, the online recruitment site. Names, passwords, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnicity ... Read more...
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Discarded hard drives are teeming with confidential data
November 6th, 2008 - 4:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Computer hard drives that have been disposed of or sold into the second-hand market by corporations, organizations, and individualsstill carry sensitive data that may pose a big ... Read more...
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Confidential data again goes missing in Britain
September 7th, 2008 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 7 (DPA) A computer disk containing the personal data of around 5,000 prison workers in Britain has gone missing, in another case of several similar incidents that have embarrassed ... Read more...
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Cyber attacks from China, Russia biggest threat to Britains national security
August 9th, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 9 (ANI): Cyber attacks on British Government computer systems and vital parts of the economy have become one of the greatest threats to national security, an official report has ... Read more...
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New model shows how secure your computer network is
July 24th, 2008 - 3:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington , July 24 (ANI): Hackers targeting confidential data pose the biggest problems for IT managers. Now, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) led by an ... Read more...
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Large companies snooping on employees’ e-mails
May 26th, 2008 - 6:45 pm ICT by admin
New York, May 26 (IANS) If you are an employee in a large company and are thinking of using your work e-mail for job hunting or online dating, watch out. A new ... Read more...
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E-recycling major Infotrek acquires European technology
May 23rd, 2008 - 2:44 pm ICT by admin
Mumbai, May 23 (IANS) Indian electronic equipment recycling major Infotrek Syscom Ltd Friday announced that it has acquired European e-waste management technology for its subsidiary Eco Recycling ltd (Ecoreco). The Mumbai-based firm ... Read more...
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Beware of hacker attacks via Orkut, Facebook
April 22nd, 2008 - 10:38 am ICT by admin
By Fakir Balaji
Bangalore, April 22 (IANS) If you belong to the generation of net savvy Indians, beware of browsing social networking sites for long as your PC or laptop could easily fall ... Read more...
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