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Latest News

Gap contractor loses laptop with personal information of 800,000 job applicants

Jim Carr October 01, 2007

Clothing retailer Gap revealed on Friday that a laptop containing the personal information of approximately 800,000 of its job applicants was stolen from an outside contractor that manages the company's data.

Visa PCI deadline looms for tier-one merchants

Dan Kaplan September 28, 2007

Merchants seem dedicated to reaching Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, but a number of significant hurdles will prevent all level-one merchants from reaching Sundays Visa-imposed deadline, PCI experts said today.

Silent Microsoft update blamed for Windows Update issue

Frank Washkuch Jr. September 28, 2007

A Windows expert has blamed the silent support update that Microsoft deployed in the past two months for PCs running Windows XP with Windows Update being unable to download updates correctly.

Apple fixes 10 iPhone bugs

Jim Carr September 28, 2007

In the its widest-reaching round of iPhone security updates yet, Apple released 10 iPhone fixes on Thursday, correcting vulnerabilities in the popular mobile phones Safari browser, mail client and Bluetooth server.

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Video shows simulated hacker attack on electrical grid

Dan Kaplan September 27, 2007

The possibility that a hacker could hijack the electrical grid should come as no surprise to security experts and government officials. But the graphic images that result from a simulated attack might, a former U.S. cyberczar said today.

Former Cox Communications employee pleads guilty to hacking company network

Frank Washkuch Jr. September 27, 2007

A Georgia man, asked to resign from his job at Cox Communications, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to hacking into his former employers network and shutting down telecommunications services, including 911 numbers in major U.S. cities.

Google working to patch Gmail message-forwarding flaw

Frank Washkuch Jr. September 26, 2007

A flaw in Gmail can allow an attacker to forward all messages with attachments to another email address.

eBay hacker posts fake credit card numbers to site's security forum

Dan Kaplan September 26, 2007

Investigators at eBay believe a fraudster was trying to generate panic when he posted what appeared to be the credit card numbers of 1,200 members to an eBay forum that deals with user safety and security.

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