High Profile Twitter Hacker Arrested in France

The hacker credited with pulling off the most damaging hack against Twitter to date, which resulted in the leak of thousands of confidential corporate documents, was arrested by authorities in France. However, the Frenchman was questioned about an earlier attack involving unauthorized access to several high profile Twitter accounts, including that of Barack Obama. At the beginning of May last year, someone calling himself "Hacker Croll" took credit for obtaining unauthorized access to a Twitter's administrative backend. In order to sustain his...

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Top ten antivirus of 2010

1. Kaspersky version 7.0.0.43 beta – 99.23% 2. Kaspersky version 6.0.2.614 – 99.13% 3. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.308 – 99.13% 4. ZoneAlarm with KAV Antivirus version 7.0.337.000 – 99.13% 5. F-Secure 2007 version 7.01.128 – 98.56% 6. BitDefender Professional version 10 – 97.70% 7. BullGuard version 7.0.0.23 – 96.59% 8. Ashampoo version 1.30 – 95.80% 9. eScan version 8.0.671.1 – 94.43% 10. Nod32 version 2.70.32 – 94....

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Threats to Computer Security

 Computer systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage resulting in significant losses. This damage can range from errors harming database integrity to fires destroying entire computer centers. Losses can stem, for example, from the actions of supposedly trusted employees defrauding a system, from outside hackers, or from careless data entry clerks. Precision in estimating computer security-related losses is not possible because many losses are never discovered, and others are "swept under the carpet" to...

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