Google warns users infected with DNSChanger as Web outage nears

Google on Tuesday hauled out a tool it last used nearly a year ago to warn users infected with the "DNSChanger" malware. [...]

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FBI 'safety net' servers come with expiration date
Users still infected by DNSChanger have until July 9 to clean their systems...
DNSChanger victims get extension until 8 July
Companies and individuals infected with the DNSChanger malware have been given a further 120 days to...
Half of Fortune 500 firms infected with DNS Changer
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Massive Android malware op may have infected 5 million users
The largest-ever Android malware campaign may have duped as many as 5 million users into downloading...

Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints

Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Microsoft handles requests for blurring of images, the company said on Tuesday. [...]

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Bing goes down for a half hour
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Google: 2.9 percent of German households shun Street View
Close to 250,000 German households have requested that Google scrub their homes from its Street View...
German Street View error lets iPhone users see hidden images
Google is facing fresh complaints over Street View in Germany, after technical problems caused some properties...
Google hopes to launch German Street View this year
Concerns over privacy mean Google has yet to launch its Street View service in Germany, more than a year-and-a-half...

Facebook and physicians: Not good medicine

Physicians who use social networks to share clinical experiences risk violating patient privacy. A niche industry of private social network providers has cropped up to address the desire to communicate. [...]

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IBM, Aetna roll out cloud-based clinical decision support system
IBM and Aetna-subsidiary ActiveHealth have collaborated to create a cloud-based clinical decision support...
Healthcare organizations find security, privacy cures
Healthcare organizations are energetically seeking cures for managing identity and security in fast-paced...
Early privacy GRC contenders
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Anonymous claims it hacked a DOJ site

The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday it was looking into the unauthorized access of a website server in its statistics wing, after hacker group Anonymous claimed to have collected and released 1.7GB of data from it. [...]

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Anonymous hater claims responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack
A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has claimed...
Anonymous claims hack of Texas police website
Anonymous has attacked the website of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, in retaliation for the arrests...
Hacker selling access to compromised websites gets hacked
A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access...
Security roundup: Anonymous attacks DOJ, RIAA sites; Israeli-Palestinian cyberconflict escalates
Angered by the move by federal authorities to shut down the popular website Megaupload on charges it...

Lenovo's fiscal Q4 profit up 59 percent

Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter grew by 59 percent, as the world's second largest PC maker saw continued growth in sales across both mature and emerging markets. [...]

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Lenovo's fiscal Q3 profit up 54 percent, increases China share
Lenovo's profit in its fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 grew 54 percent year-over-year, as the...
Lenovo profits more than double for fiscal year
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Lenovo’s third quarter profit grew 88 percent
Lenovo's profit for the third quarter nearly doubled year on year as the company continued its fast-paced...
Cisco Profit Fell One-Third in Q4
Cisco's profit in its fiscal fourth quarter fell about one-third from a year earlier, while its sales...

Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday. [...]

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European data concerns cloud outlook for US vendors
American cloud providers may find themselves unable to sell to the Dutch government due to concerns that...
EFF, ACLU file lawsuits over Patriot Act data collection
Two civil liberties groups have filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Department of Justice to detail its collection...
EU upset by Microsoft warning about US access to EU cloud
Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict...

New Nmap probes IPv6 networks

Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques. [...]

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Hackers target IPv6
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IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day
A surge of IPv6-based Web traffic began flowing over the Internet last night when World IPv6 Day began,...
How to get IPv6 addresses from ARIN
Now that IPv6 is imminent, you’ll need some IPv6 address space. Working with ARIN to request IPv6 differs...
IPv6: What you need to do now
With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6...

10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

Alcatel-Lucent is set to give Cisco and Juniper another run for the money in core routing 10 years after its initial attempt failed. [...]

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Beefy Alcatel-Lucent switch targets Cisco, Juniper
Alcatel-Lucent this week will reawaken its enterprise switching business with a core switch designed...
Verizon looks to Alcatel's new core router for capacity, efficiency
Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's...
Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core
Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and...
Juniper looks to one up Cisco again in core routing
Juniper Networks this week will take its turn claiming innovation leadership in Internet core routing...

Banking malware monitors victims by hijacking webcams and microphones, researchers say

A new variant of SpyEye malware allows cybercriminals to monitor potential bank fraud victims by hijacking their webcams and microphones, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab. [...]

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SpyEye malware continues to plague computers
The SpyEye banking malware continues to plague computers across the world and is proving to be a difficult...
UK police arrest three men over ‘SpyEye’ malware
U.K. police arrested three men late last week in connection with using the SpyEye malware program to...
SpyEye steals banking codes by sending them to wrong phone
Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial...

Sony demos wireless media hub for its computers, smartphones, game consoles

Sony on Tuesday showed a digital media hub that uses Wi-Fi to connect its PCs, tablets, smartphones and PlayStation game consoles, a product that it hopes will be part of its comeback. [...]

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Sony Ericsson focused on smartphones, but keeps options open
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Sony Online Entertainment launches Facebook game
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Mobile World Congress sneak peek: Quad-core smartphones, Ice Cream Sandwich & more
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Sony Ericsson shrinks Android with two new smartphones
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications expanded its line of smartphones based on Google's Android software...