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Unpatched WordPress installations rife with malware

06

Jul

2011

Yesterday the WordPress team gifted writers with the release of version 3.2 of the open source blogging platform. While their focus was rightly on all of the cool new features and enhancements their community will enjoy, I naturally wanted to focus on the changes that may have an impact on security. The biggest announcement was […]

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Bitcoin currency collapse – where next for digital cash?

21

Jun

2011

Two years ago, in 2009, an open-source, peer-to-peer digital cash system launched. Cutely called Bitcoin, it was based on an academically-flavoured paper entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. The paper’s author, and the creator of the Bitcoin project, was the enigmatically-named Satoshi Nakamoto. No-one seems to know – or, more accurately, no-one is saying […]

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Hackers may face 20 years in jail if seen to threaten US national security

21

Jun

2011

The Obama administration has been lobbying congress to increase sentences for those who break into government computer networks, or potentially endanger the country’s national security. The request includes doubling the maximum prison sentence to 20 years behind bars, according to Reuters.Talks on changes to the cybersecurity bill have being going on for over a year.Recent […]

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