Tag: attack
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Carphone Warehouse Confirms Cyber Attack – Customer Credit Card Details at Risk
Carphone Warehouse has revealed this weekend that earlier in the week the company’s IT systems got hacked and up to 2.4-million of its customers’ personal information including names, addresses and bank details may have been compromised. An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Met Cyber Crime department is under way to find out…
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Chinese Govt. Allegedly Attacks iCloud
Well, it’s not a big surprise that following a massive launch of the iPhone 6 in China that there’s been a little bit of a problem between Apple’s iCloud and Chinese hackers. The device was released in China en masse last week. It’s not clear who orchestrated the attack on iCloud, with Great Fire, an…
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Mac Users Under Attack By ‘Reddit’ Botnet
Whilst Apple fans have always maintained Apple’s desktop computing platform has always been more virus secure than other computer brands, viruses for Mac still exist and are still out there. A recent revelation has uncovered a brand new treat to Macs that bizarrely uses Reddit to coordinate attacks on host machines. Security boffins from Dr.…
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Google Undersea Cables Attacked by Sharks
Sharks. Not the most prevalent threat to the internet out there, but nonetheless, a threat. If you are afraid of these rough skinned, bad tempered, short sighted fish, this news may bolster your fears. Sorry about that. Anyway, Google’s undersea fibre optic cables have been under attack by these monsters of the deep of late,…
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Feedly Down After a Second DDoS Attack
For the second day in a row news gathering website Feedly has been struck by a Denial of Service Attack (DDoS).
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Feedly down due to DDoS attack **UPDATED**
Popular news aggregator Feedly is currently down for all that use the service due to a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its servers. This is leaving many all users, unable to access onto the site. The service is under a denial of service attack. We are working with our network provider to deflect…
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Hackers attack Ubisoft’s uPlay service, make unreleased content available
Previously unreleased DLC available to download early
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13 Unluckiest Smartphones – Top 12 Most Vulnerable Are Android!
Recently there’s been much emphasis on maintaining our personal safety and security in modern tech-dependant times, with online password protection, ID theft prevention, phishing scams and vicious malware infection key points of discussion across the gadget-using community. Security co. Bit9 is latest to reveal some shocking stats that will make you think about what potentially nasty…
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Facebook cleans up after recent spam attack
Complaints from over 800-million users has prompted Facebook to take a serious look at its defences against spam after a recent wave of inappropriate images appeared on the social network over the past week. The weak safety and security defences meant that children as young as 13 (Facebook’s minimum age requirement) were privy to pornography…
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Sony Playstation Network may not return until 31st May!
We would we not like to be working at Sony at the moment, with this endless debacle about the PlayStation Network being down, hacked and generally violated it must be hard times at Sony corps worldwide. PS3 users are also having a bit of a toughie with the PSN still down and no foreseeable return…
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Another Playstation Network statement – Few more days needed to “confirm security”
The Playstation Network will remain inactive for a few more days, claims Sony, after promising its online services would be returned to working order on May 3rd – almost one week ago. Another day, another blog statement from Sony – who’s Playstation Network has been KO’d since April 20th, this time Nick Caplin, communications boss…
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Playstation Network Update – Sony now admit security threat!
Many gamers will be aware that the Playstation Network (PSN) has been crippled for almost a week (if you’re not aware – where have you been? You can catch up with our previous article here). Sony has now confessed there has been a serious security threat to user’s vital information on the Playstation gaming community. The problem was initially claimed…