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U.K. hacker convicted for taking part in Anonymous attacks
07.12.2012
22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead from Northampton, U.K., has been convicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers for his involvement in the DDoS campaign against PayPal and other companies in 2010.
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Cyber attacks resulting in death forecasted next year
06.12.2012
WatchGuard's security research analysts released a list of annual security predictions which reveals an uptick in emerging cyber threats and an increased focus by governments to fight back through legislation.
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Kaspersky Lab predicts core threats for 2013
06.12.2012
Kaspersky Lab’s experts outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013.
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65% of organizations experience three DDoS attacks a year
14.11.2012
Despite the increasing sophistication and severity of cyber attacks, a survey of more than 700 senior IT professionals reveals that organizations are surprisingly unarmed to deal with today’s threat landscape, according to the Ponemon Institute and Radware.
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Team GhostShell leaks 2.5M records from Russian govt, firms
02.11.2012
Team GhostShell, the hacker group responsible for the recent leak of some 120,000+ records raided from top universities around the world, has done it again.
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A closer look at Mega cloud storage
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The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance
Posted on 20 May 2013. | Randall Gamby is the CSO of the Medicaid Information Service Center of New York. In this interview he discusses healthcare security and compliance challenges and offers a variety of tips.

Cyber espionage campaign uses professionally-made malware
Posted on 20 May 2013. | A massive cyber espionage campaign has been hitting government ministries, IT companies, academic research institutions, and more.

Ransomware adds password stealing to its arsenal
Posted on 17 May 2013. | Microsoft researchers are warning about a new variant of the well-known Reveton ransomware doing rounds.

IT security jobs: What's in demand and how to meet it
Posted on 15 May 2013. | Let's say you want a career in information security, where do you start? What credentials do you need? What are employers looking for? Read on to find some answers.
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