Juniper Networks has paid $10 million (£6.6 million) to get its hands on tiny UK firm Webscreen Systems, a specialist in automated DDoS protection technology.
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A forthcoming book co-authored by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will label China as “the most sophisticated and prolific� hacker of foreign companies as part of its national economic policy, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
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A British teen found guilty of attacking PayPal and other large companies as part of an Anonymous group cyber-campaign would have been sent to jail were it not for his age and troubled personality, a judge has said.
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Symantec has offered a carefully-worded but defiant response to the news that one of its customers, the New York Times, was attacked by Chinese hackers with barely any intervention from its software.
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Could the days of the annoying and increasingly ineffective CAPTCHA web verification box finally be numbered?
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Chinese hackers with connections to the country’s military have been accused of hacking into the computers of New York Times journalists as part of a wide-ranging campaign of espionage against US news media.
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The FBI has arrested a man accused of stealing personal information from the online accounts of 350 women in order to ‘sextort’ them into stripping off so he could take nude pictures via webcam.
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Google is to pay for 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model B boards to be handed out free of charge to UK schoolchildren.
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Millions of consumer devices using the ubiquitous Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, including routers, printers, media servers and webcams, are vulnerable to a cocktail of dangerous security vulnerabilities, pen-testing outfit Rapid7 has discovered.
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DDoS attacks appear to be morphing from volumetric battering rams into sophisticated, highly targeted and extremely angry political point-scoring systems, a detailed survey of large enterprises and data centre managers has found.
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Consumers worried about how their personal data might be misused by private and public sector organisations can from today look for a new ‘Fair Data’ logo to calm their worries, the Market Research Society (MRS) has announced.
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The BBC’s iPlayer service served a record-breaking 2.32 billion programme requests in 2012, but it was mobiles and not PCs driving the boom, the BBC has reported.
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A student at Northampton University and a man from south London have been jailed for taking part in an unsophisticated but effective 2010 DDoS rampage that reportedly cost PayPal £3.5 million ($5.6 million).
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Glasgow has won £24 million of government funding to become a test-bed for a range of new ‘smart city’ technologies that could transform the nature of urban life in the 21st Century.
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The number of DDoS attacks reached their highest ever level for a single quarter in the last three months of 2012, recording a 19 percent year-on-year growth, mitigation vendor Prolexic has reported.
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A Canadian company has reportedly bought the rights to make a $28 million (£17.5 million) biopic adapted from the unpublished memoirs of eccentric antivirus founder and ex-Belize resident, John McAfee.
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Global spam levels continued to fall in 2012 and even the number of malicious attachments was on the wane, new figures from Kaspersky Lab have suggested.
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Poland’s national NASK domain registrar has taken control of 23 domains it said were being used to support the Virus botnet has been attempting to resurrect the tenacious Waledec/Kelihos bot severely damaged by Microsoft in 2011.
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Google has gradually enabled SSL searching across its search, browser and Gmail services in the last couple of years, and it remains a work in progress.
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Electronics accessory maker Hama has admitted that a 35mm photographic film scanner sold to German consumers over Christmas came with a software disk infected with the irrepressible Conficker worm.
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