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Hackers warn of hacker threat….

Up next, bees warn of bee stings…

High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world’s elite hackers have warned.
They claim it is only a “matter of time” before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted.
Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia’s [...]

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Security Cost Center

Even in security companies, security is the first thing cut.
 A Symantec employee tells us that on April 18, management will cut most of the company’s engineers in Durham, North Carolina and over a third of its Mountain View workforce. “This is not unexpected,” our tipster tells us. “Since the merger of Veritas and Symantec there [...]

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All your spyware are belong to us

It looks like BT thinks it is okay to install spyware on their customers computers.  Nice.
BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm’s advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious redirects.
The national telecoms provider now faces legal [...]

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