Numericable is a cable TV company operating in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Rex Mundi claimed to have stolen customer data and demanded €22,000 for its return. Numericable declined, and denied that the hackers had the data. Rex Mundi (king of the world) is a hacker group that makes a habit of hacking for extortion. Last […]
In September 2012, six major American banks came under attack by hackers, and customers could not gain access to their accounts or pay bills online. The attacks did not affect customer bank accounts, but the rash of so-called distributed denial-of-service, or DDOS, attacks such as these against major financial institutions have forced them to step […]
Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. Cloud computing is used in many different ways these days, but not everyone is completely on board the cloud train quite yet. For those holdouts who just aren’t sure whether or […]
Way to go, NSA: America’s lead in cloud computing is in jeopardy because of you. Foreign competitors think they can grow market share in cloud computing because of concerns raised by the National Security Agency’s PRISM program and other government collection of electronic data from third parties. U.S. cloud computing companies could lose $22 billion […]
Zimbabweans knocked offline and see data wiped because of slew of cyber attacks last week during the elections, TechWeekEurope learns. Cyber Repression: In the weeks leading up to and following Zimbabwe’s election of last Thursday, Zimbabweans were hit by significant Internet-based attacks. In some, they could have just been the victims of collateral damage. In […]
[sg_popup id=”9″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] A recent edition of the UK The Economist had an interesting article called “The Server Market; Shifting Sands”. What the article highlighted was the fragile and fluid nature of the global server market. What stands out in the article is the decline in server revenue for the two leading server manufacturers HP […]
TO MOST people, a computer is a device with a screen and a keyboard, sitting on their desk or on their lap. More and more of them have tablets and they may recognise their mobile phones as powerful computers too—for that is what they have become. But a lot of the world’s computing power is […]
Turkish security researcher claims to have found flaw in system, which has been offline since Thursday as company ‘rebuilds and strengthens’ security around databases Apple says its Developer portal has been hacked and that some information about its 275,000 registered third-party developers who use it may have been stolen. The portal at developer.apple.com had been […]
Albert Einstein, a man not known for his lack of learning, once said that we should never learn what we can look up in a book. While it’s often efficient to have all the commands and options we need at our fingertips, sometimes the effort of cramming all that arcana into our brains isn’t worth […]
About Graeme Caldwell — Graeme works as an inbound marketer for InterWorx, a revolutionary web hosting control panel for hosts who need scalability and reliability. Follow InterWorx on Twitter at @interworx, Like them on Facebook and check out their blog, http://www.interworx.com/community. If we accept that all businesses, when creating an infrastructure to support their online […]