Hacktivists nicked more data than CYBER-CROOKS in 2011 - Register

By John Leyden • Get more from this author More than half (58 per cent) of data stolen last year can be attributed to hacktivism - hacking to advance political and social objectives - according to the latest edition of the Data Breach Investigations ...

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How child predators cover their tracks online - CSO (blog)

The report, released this morning, details how pedophiles are successfully hiding the evil they do online. Criminals are 'disguising' websites to appear as if they host only legal content. However, if an internet user follows a predetermined digital ...

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Ciena, SafeNet partner on Ethernet link encryption services - Telecompaper (subscription)

Ciena and SafeNet Join Forces to Protect Data and Reduce Security Breaches in ...
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Nuclear Workers Data Breach Revealed - HNN Huntingtonnews.net

ANWAG was alerted to this issue by a claimant's authorized representative, Gary Vander Boegh, who forwarded this article on the break-in: http://www.databreaches.net/?p=23593. 'I confirmed with OWCP Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness ...

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Protecting public data from criminals and hacktivists - Public Service

The message is clear: it is time to think more intelligently about the risk of data breaches and IT security, and have in place measures for a nightmare scenario. A common scenario facing organisations is where two independently designed (and very ...

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Cost of data breaches in Australia going up, criminal attacks to blame: Symantec - PC Advisor

The caution comes by the way of Symantec's recent 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study, which has found that the average cost of a data breach reported by Australian organisations has maintained an upward trend for the third year in a row.

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'Sadist' lover posed as American footballer on Facebook and forced young ... - Daily Mail

The elaborate plot began when Bingham posed as 'Grant' and befriended his girlfriend on Facebook. He pestered her to send him a topless picture of herself - which she did. He then ordered her to perform sex acts on herself day and night on a webcam, ...

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EU to get tough on cybercrime, file-sharers to be spared - Network World

By Jennifer Baker, IDG News Service TechBriefcase is a new, free service where IT Professionals can Search, Store and Share IT white papers and content like this. Learn more Speed up your research efforts with content across the web.

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Keeping kids safe - Minneapolis Star Tribune

She says it breaks her heart to tell her children that they aren't necessarily safe, even if they've done nothing more threatening than walk the streets of their neighborhood. The instructions go like this: Keep your hands out of your pockets.

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