John E Dunn - Techworld Author

Biography

John is one of the co-founders of Techworld, following a spell working for Tornado Insider, the European magazine for tech start-ups. He started in IT journalism as technical editor of Personal Computer Magazine, before progressing to become editor of Network World (formerly LAN Magazine) and Network Week before helping to set up Techworld Insider. He has also freelanced for a number of technical publications in the technology, science and business fields.

His Techworld blog is War on Error

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Criminals open 'factory outlet' to sell stolen Facebook and Twitter logins

Security company Trusteer has discovered a ‘factory outlet’ selling user logins for Facebook and Twitter harvested as a sideline during attempts to steal online bank credentials.

UK PC sales plummet as vendors pray for Windows 8

UK PC sales dropped a recessionary 20 percent in the final quarter of 2011 with only one branded vendor, Apple, increasing sales, according to Gartner’s latest figures.

Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds

Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can’t detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.

Avecto boosts admin management reporting engine

Windows admin rights management outfit Avecto has added a new reporting layer to its Privilege Guard software that can capture detailed data on how employees are interacting with applications.

DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds

Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found.

Trendnet IP webcams open to remote spying, researcher finds

Users of Trendnet home surveillance cameras have been warned about a serious security hole that makes it possible for Internet users to view their private video feeds in real time.

US hospital hit by data-stealing malware

An Indiana hospital has had to write to 12,000 people after malware breached its security defences to compromise a server used to collect personal data from web forms.

Kaspersky Lab CEO backs out of IPO plans

Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky has cancelled plans for the firm to go public, announcing his intention to buy back a 20 percent stake sold to a private equity investor a year ago.

Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers

German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time.

VeriSign admits it was hacked in 2010 but managers not told

Internet giant VeriSign suffered a series of data breaches in 2010 and even now senior executives are not sure exactly what was compromised, the company has admitted in a filing made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Bogus Facebook accounts always female, new study finds

Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found.

Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked by forensic software

The encryption keys for Apple’s FileVault 2 full-disk encryption used with OS X Lion can be recovered “in minutes” from memory, password-cracking outfit Passware has announced.

Plusnet broadband slows after dodgy maintenance upgrade

Customers of large UK ISP PlusNet have experienced a morning of disruption after a maintenance upgrade slowed web browsing to a crawl for many.

Trojan gang targets BT, Talk Talk and Sky customers

Criminals using a dangerous variant of the Zeus bank Trojan have started hacking BT, Talk Talk and Sky phone accounts as a way of redirecting phone calls from bank fraud services away from victims.

Trojan found breaking Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes

Researchers have discovered a malware engine that appears to be able to break the CAPTCHA security used by Yahoo's webmail service after only a handful of attempts.

Sarah Palin hacker loses appeal against evidence deletion

The former college student imprisoned for hacking the email account of Sarah Palin has had his appeal against the charge on which he was convicted rejected by a US court.

BlackBerry still number one in the UK, claims RIM

The BlackBerry is not dead yet. According to figures released by RIM, the handset maker has added a third more subscribers to its worldwide base and is still the best selling brand in the UK.

Google, Microsoft and Facebook battle phishing with new specification

Major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have announced a new specification to streamline the way email providers work out whether messages are part of phishing attacks using spoofed domain addresses.

Angry Facebook sues firm for alleged 'likejacking' scam

Facebook’s zero tolerance policy against those it believes are abusing its network has seen it file a lawsuit against a company it accuses of using a ‘clickjacking’ scam to trick users into divulging personal information.

Israeli hackers deface Iranian Government websites

An Israeli group has claimed responsibility for the defacement of several Iranian Government websites as the tit-for-tat digital war between hackers in the Middle East shows no sign of waning.

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