Imperva’s, the web security specialist, Hacker Intelligence Initiative(HII), has been closely tracking the Anonymous Hacker Group and its attacks against various Web sites, Imperva have found that the tool to initiate a denial of service attack has been downloaded over 40,000 times with the majority of downloads occurring in the US.
The worldwide controversy surrounding confidential material being supplied to WikiLeaks by whistle-blowers - leading to the publishing of tens of thousands of secret US military documents in the likes of The New York Times and The Guardian – should act as a catalyst for IT departments across the globe to take control of company data governance and offer a guarantee that employees have access to only the information they need.
A survey that revealed that almost 30 per cent of IT directors/managers of major retailers in the UK are either unaware - or only partially aware - of the PCI DSS 2.0 security standard's requirements is very worrying, say the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show. Infosecurity Europe will be held at Earls Court, London 19-21 April 2011 www.infosec.co.uk
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Net
Every hacker was stirring, engaging in cyber threat.
SQL statements were injected with care,
In hopes that credit card numbers soon would appear.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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