Manchester UK and Boston USA: Against a rising backdrop of multiple Java security issues – culminating in Oracle’s emergency patch causing the Java sandbox to be bypassed – Avecto has warned Windows users that the extensible code should now be disabled on users’ Web browsers – and only enabled as and when needed.
There has been an unprecedented amount of press lately around new cyber-attacks in the chemical industry during the last year. In a string of cyber-attacks, hackers have stolen critical formulas and plans from major chemical companies.
Not many facets of political science have given its students as many headaches as definitions. Those who have used words like “terrorism” are probably aware of the rather ambiguous nature of such descriptions. The word “revolution” is another example showing somewhat similar difficulties. Nevertheless, to me a revolution is a political phenomenon that is made up of three major stages: the first is the ideological framework, which is normally provided by intellectuals; this not only analyzes the situation at hand (descriptive), but it also proposes a way out of a seemingly unwelcome status quo (prescriptive).
Abingdon, UK: Last week, Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. In May, Kaspersky Lab’s research team conducted a search prompted by the International Telecommunication Union to investigate the incidents and determine the potential threat from this new malware as it related to global sustainability and security.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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