Guardian Jobs website hacked

The UK jobs website, Guardian Jobs, was hacked last night leaving a proportion of users data exposed. The Metropolitan Police areGuardian Jobs investigating and for anyone that has been affected has been emailed with details and advise.The Guardian have confirmed to TNW that the US site, guardianjobs.com, has not been affected and is independent of the UK operation. The data is held on separate databases run by the third parties that operate the sites for the Guardian, Madgex and Indeed. In the UK, it’s run by Madgex and according to the Guardian,...

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Mobile Code Security

With the growth of distributed computer and telecommunications systems, there have been increasing demands to support the concept of "mobile code", sourced from remote, possibly untrusted, systems, but executed locally. The best known examples of this are WWW applets, but it also is manifest in dynamic email, and more recently, in supporting third party suppliers in the emerging Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA). Supporting mobile code introduces a number of serious security and safety issues that must be addressed....

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