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2012′s worst security exploits, fails and blunders

AV-Test is an independent information security institute that regularly rounds up all the top antimalware products that are out there, tosses a whole bunch of nasties at said products, and sees how the various solutions hold up under the withering barrage.
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Anonymous affiliate indicted for threats, stolen credit cards

A federal grand jury in Texas has indicted Barrett Brown, a putative spokesman for the hacker collective known as Anonymous and co-author of a book-in-progress about the group, in connection with a massive data breach of Stratfor Global Intelligence,
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Anonymous Sprint Employee Apparently Leaks Samsung Galaxy S III Training Videos

Inside Sprint Now is allegedly authored by an anonymous Sprint/Nextel customer service rep. However, a Samsung PR rep, Lesli Benefield of The MWW Group, told PCWorld Tuesday evening: “These videos are not associated with Samsung, and Samsung does not
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HP Touts Unified Cloud Services

CloudSystem will now offer customers the ability to move workloads to other providers as well, through Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) or HP’s own hosted pay-as-you-go services, which rely on OpenStack. The company has also carved out individual
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Flashback Malware was Wake-Up Call for Apple

By Hamish Barwick, Computerworld-Australia Apple’s lack of support for older Macintosh operating systems is placing Mac users into the path of in-coming cyber security attacks such as the recent Flashback botnet outbreak according to Kaspersky Labs
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Dell Reaches for the Cloud With New Prototype ARM Server

Dell also said Hadoop, Openstack and Java have also been optimized for ARM. Dell has written Crowbar, it’s open-source management framework, to work on ARM servers. Crowbar helps install, deploy and monitor cloud software across clusters.
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Open Source Cloud Project Backers Duking It out for Support

By Brandon Butler, NetworkWorld In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model. This week for example Zenoss, which makes software that allows
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