South Korean hackers gained access to Pyongyang’s official Twitter account. Photograph: Lee Jae-Won/Reuters While North and South Korea consider the possibility of reopening cross-border talks, the two countries’ hackers are conducting a proxy war in cyberspace. In recent days hackers from the South have poked fun at the Kim dynasty,…

Posted on January 16, 2011, Sunday MOST people equate violence against women (VAW) with physical, sexual or psychological harm. Not many realise VAW can also take place online and may be more widespread than what they think. ALL EARS: A participant presents the results of her group’s discussion. The United…

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Sophos computer security firm on Friday warned that hackers are spreading a nasty computer virus with a file promising a PowerPoint presentation of sexual positions from the Kama Sutra. Computer user clicking a mouse. Sophos computer security firm on Friday warned that hackers are spreading a nasty computer virus with…

Speakers: Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Mike Cooper Senior Security Engineer, IPC Systems Hack the Textbook: Introducing The Textbook Security Project Why do we have so many software security problems? Clearly, a large proportion are caused by poorly written code. Why is our code…

My antivirus scan tends to get stuck for a very long time on a particular file (~WRF2715.tmp). Becuse of this, a full scan can take over 800 minutes. Any idea how to resolve? I have tried using centralized exceptions, but cannot find the particular file so as to exclude it…

A PROMISE: China’s commerce minister promised Friday in a meeting with dozens of global executives that its latest in a string of crackdowns on product piracy will deliver lasting results. TENSIONS: China is trying to defuse tensions over rampant copying of software and other goods from the U.S., Europe and…

Jan 15 2011, 2:03pm CST | by Luigi Lugmayr The Super Bowl preparations in Arlington, North Texas got hit with a small security problem. A laptop that carries Super Bowl 2011 credential information got stolen from a NFL employee’s car in Arlington. Related Related The Sexiest Super Bowl Ads of…

by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service   Scammers are trying to steal banking information using fake e-mails that look like they’ve come from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the FDIC warned Wednesday. Holidays: how to shop safely online Hacked iTunes accounts taken off China e-commerce site Hacked iTunes accounts…

hello all i had a SBS2003 server running backup exec 12 with b2d setup. the server crashed from a RAID failure. i was doing full backup on friday night and incremental the following 4 week nights. the incremental backups seemed to have corrupted the earlier full backup. so most of…