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Nissan says hackers stole user IDs and hashed passwords
Nissan has found malicious software on its network that stole employee user IDs and hashed passwords, but said that no personal information or emails appeared to have been compromised.
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Flashback Trojan still on 650,000 Macs, security company discovers
The Mac Flashback Trojan was still installed on more than half a million Apple computers late last week and is declining only slowly, Russian security company Dr. Web has reported.
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IPv6 - Akamai to launch new Internet Protocol service in April
Akamai will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base in April - a long-awaited move that will be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation internet protocol.
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Aruba launches corporate mobile device management tools
New software from Aruba Networks lets IT groups secure and manage the influx of employee-owned devices to the corporate network.
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MetaFlows launches SaaS intrusion detection agent
Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monitor network traffic flow, detect possible intrusions and analyse event logs.
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Hackers crack DreamHost customer database
Web hosting firm DreamHost reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers on Friday after detecting unauthorised activity within one of its databases.
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Gang pulls off $5.2 million bank job via remote access
Criminals in South Africa have carried off a cunning remote access heist that has left one of the country's banks nursing a stunning $5.2 million (R42 million) loss.
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New zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Flash Player
Two newly discovered vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash Player can be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely, according to advisories from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and various security research companies.
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Hackers harvest Facebook private data with social bots
Facebook's fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have found after an eight week test.
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Leading websites 'leaking' personal info to other firms
Many top websites share their visitors' names, usernames or other personal information with their partners without telling users and, in some cases, without knowing they're doing it, according to a new study from Stanford University.
