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Jeremy Kirk
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Jeremy Kirk is London correspondent at the IDG News Service and reports on security; chips; Microsoft Europe.
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A former member of a band of hackers faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to a single computer hacking charge.
2 weeks 5 days ago
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Australia's government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard.
2 weeks 6 days ago
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A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.
2 weeks 6 days ago
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A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.
3 weeks 3 hours ago
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Western Australian police have charged a Perth teenager with several computer-related offenses but are not releasing the details.
3 weeks 19 hours ago
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Google plans to upgrade the security of its SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, an important component of secure communications.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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A mechanical engineering student in Taiwan has found the messaging application called Line warns and stops users in China from sending certain politically sensitive keywords.
3 weeks 5 days ago
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A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report.
3 weeks 6 days ago
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It appears Canada's anti-money laundering regulator will leave Bitcoin exchanges in the country alone for now.
3 weeks 6 days ago
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Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing platform.
4 weeks 1 hour ago
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resumed accepting bitcoins donations, saying some of the legal ambiguity around the virtual currency has disappeared.
4 weeks 1 day ago
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The computer virus seems to be making a subtle comeback.
4 weeks 4 days ago
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New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday granted Megaupload leave to appeal a ruling that denied it access to evidence the U.S. government holds.
4 weeks 4 days ago
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The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document.
4 weeks 5 days ago
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A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox.
4 weeks 6 days ago
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Hackers are finding it pays to call ahead before sending malware-laden email.
5 weeks 2 hours ago
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Kim Dotcom has ordered the removal from his Mega file-storage service design plans for a controversial one-bullet plastic gun.
5 weeks 22 hours ago
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A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted US$45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the U.S. and India.
5 weeks 4 days ago
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Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.
5 weeks 4 days ago
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Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.
5 weeks 5 days ago
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Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.
5 weeks 5 days ago
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A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why.
5 weeks 5 days ago
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China's government and military appear to be directly involved in cyberattacks against the U.S., according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Defense.
6 weeks 2 hours ago
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