Shop.org said Sunday 122.9 million Americans plan to shop on Cyber Monday this year, up from the 106.9 million who shopped on Cyber Monday in 2010.
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Sony was the target of a number of cyber attacks last year, kicking off with a distributed denial of service attack by the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous in April 2011.
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Meanwhile, a quarter of those surveyed are expecting a cyber breach in the coming year, and 71 percent have cyber breach response plans in place.
It recently announced that its 2010 Black Friday sales via mobile applications were nearly double those of last year and its Cyber Monday sales were 146% greater, year-over-year, than in 2009.
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As the biggest online shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday can offer a golden opportunity for some great online deals.
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This is not lost on investors, which is why some of the biggest venture capital-backed startup exits last year were cyber companies.
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For nearly a year, cyber-security researchers have tracked the Storm worm as its malicious code spread across the Internet, drawing computers into a growing botnet of hijacked computers.
All of this implies an overdue security upgrade cycle at both commercial and government enterprises, causing analysts to raise growth estimates for cyber-security this year from the high single digits to the low teens.
There has been a surge of cyber attacks on companies this year using SQL Injection, a relatively straightforward method that involves inputting programming code, which a server or site cannot handle.
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Obvious by the figures published in the news, Black Friday and Cyber Monday produced record figures this year.
The Ministry of Defence foiled more than 1, 000 cyber-attacks in the last year from criminals and foreign intelligence services.
The suspects in the Black Hawk case were arrested under a law revised last year in response to cyber crimes.
According to a report on cyber-security issued earlier this year by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the chances of a conflict fought solely in the electronic world are extremely slim.
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All of the mostly-young defendants pleaded not guilty to charges of carrying out a cyber attack against PayPal late last year in support of Anonymous, the hacktivist network that protested companies who blocked financial services to WikiLeaks.
Sales figures after Black Friday and Cyber Monday are already up over last year.
Legislation aimed at regulating how businesses report and address cyber attacks failed in the Senate last year amid GOP and business lobby resistance.
The Imperva chief is used to change himself he got into cyber security after an obligatory five-year stint in the Israeli army, specializing in intelligence.
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Cyber Monday was much better than last year.
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According to IBM's Smarter Commerce arm, Cyber Monday online sales jumped 30 percent this year.
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Cyber Monday was the busiest shopping day last year and is expected to set sales trend for online retailers this holiday season.
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The surge begins on Black Friday November 23rd this year followed immediately by Cyber Monday, when many go online back at the office to do shopping.
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In the past year, Israel established a National Cyber Directorate to encourage more research and development in cyber security and to create a national "Situation Room" to handle attacks on government and private systems.
Another year, another Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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In fact, a new survey by shop.org, the digital division of the National Retail Federation, says that 97.3% of online retailers will offer discounts during Thanksgiving weekend before Cyber Monday, up from 90% last year.
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On the eve of 2010, a year that would be a landmark in cyber-insecurity, the Washington Post downsized cybersecurity reporter, Brian Krebs.
At PayPal, mobile payment volume increased 196% as of 11am PT on Cyber Monday, compared to the same day last year.
One look at a chart showing the number of attacks on mobile devices last year and it is clear, the cyber criminals all have Android in their crosshairs.
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If anything, the Cyber ALWAYS Revolution needs to be against Greedy States like NY, Californicate, etc imposing sales taxes on companies like Amazon, et al and Cyber Shoppers buying Xmas and the rest of the year OUT of state and OUT of Brick-n-mortor to evade Sales Taxes!
In 2010, Cyber Monday became the largest online sales day of the year for the first time.
The keynote speakers this year include humorist Baratunde Thurston, "cyber anthropologist" Amber Case, Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
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