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Security warning

Are businesses at risk of WikiLeaks attacks?

Denial of service attacks against WikiLeaks, as well as companies that refuse to do business with it, have raised the stakes for cyber-crime.

By Stephen Pritchard, 10 Dec 2010 at 15:43

Security/News

Critical infrastructure

InfoSec 2011: Energy firms pummelled by DDoS attacks

A McAfee report shows energy providers are getting hit by some serious DDoS attacks.

By Tom Brewster, 19 Apr 2011 at 16:37

Email Providers/News

Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure

Q&A: Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer, F-Secure

We ask one of the leading experts on cyber crime for an assessment of the recent spate of cyber attacks and the growing threats to companies...

By Stephen Pritchard, 15 Dec 2010 at 16:35

Security/Analysis & Insight

Android

Android patched to fix denial of service bugs

Flaws in the open source Android mobile platform have been fixed.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 12 Oct 2009 at 14:01

Security/News

Russia

State suspected in LiveJournal DDoS attacks

DDoS attacks on LiveJournal go after an anti-corruption blogger, leading some to speculate about Russian state involvement.

By Tom Brewster, 7 Apr 2011 at 09:05

Security/News

viruses

Microsoft plans mega Patch Tuesday

Next release will contain 17 patches, most either 'important' or 'critical'.

By Stephen Pritchard, 10 Dec 2010 at 14:52

Security/News

Pirate

Hackers launch DDoS attacks in Pirate Bay rage

Incensed by the court decision to jail three Pirate Bay founders, Anonymous launches attacks on Warner Brothers and IFPI.

By Tom Brewster, 30 Nov 2010 at 11:58

Security/News

Piracy

Film industry launching pirate site attacks?

Film houses have reportedly approached a software firm offering to carry out a DoS attack on sites hosting pirated movies.

By Tom Brewster, 9 Sep 2010 at 18:22

Security/News

WordPress

WordPress recovers after massive DDoS attack

WordPress was hit by a huge denial of service attack, but appears to have recovered.

By Tom Brewster, 4 Mar 2011 at 12:16

Security/News

BBC website hit by Denial of Service attack

Even one of the UK's most popular websites can't escape Denial of Service attacks, which are reaching ever higher levels of traffic.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 12 Nov 2008 at 11:04

Security/News

2009 key

Year in Review: Security in 2009

We look back at the top security issues of 2009, including Conficker and more.

By Nicole Kobie, 24 Dec 2009 at 13:00

Security/News

Businesses could be at risk from ‘web flooding’

How can businesses tell the difference between a botnet and real users when both are trying to login to a website at the same time?

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 1 Jun 2009 at 15:14

Security/News

Cisco warns of flaws that could disrupt voice calls

Problems in its unified communications software could allow a denial of service attack.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 28 Aug 2009 at 11:54

Security/News

denial of service

Need to Know: Denial of Service

Twitter and Facebook were hit by a denial of service attack yesterday - but what exactly does this mean?

By Nicole Kobie, 7 Aug 2009 at 11:52

Security/News

twitter

Twitter still reeling from denial of service attack

Twitter has been taken offline by an ongoing denial of service attack - one that it's still fighting.

By Nicole Kobie, 6 Aug 2009 at 15:55

Networking/News

Jennifer Scott

Can you survive a lack of tweets?

The large scale Denial of Service attack yesterday brought social networking to its knees, but how did you, your social life and your business...

By Jennifer Scott, 7 Aug 2009 at 16:32

Networking/News

Windows Server 2008 to support Exchange Server 2007

The release of service pack 1 in the fourth quarter means Exchange Server 2007 will be supported by Windows Server 2008 and Vista.

By Simon Aughton, 14 Aug 2007 at 15:12

Server/News

Video: Gmail adds voice and video chat

Google's Gmail has added video and voice chat right into the email service.

By Janae Olinger, 12 Nov 2008 at 12:17

Networking/News

Google embraces Open Source with hosted project service

Search giant Google launches Google Project Hosting but claims it won't compete with other open source hosting networks

By by Maggie Holland and Iain Thomson, 31 Jul 2006 at 17:56

Server/News

SaaS email market to grow 20 per cent

A report from Gartner predicts the software as a service (SaaS) email market will grow 20 per cent by 2012.

By Jennifer Scott, 9 Apr 2009 at 09:48

Desktop Software/News

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